#### TO FIX THE WORDPRESS INSTALLATION TO EC2 WITH A PROPER VERSION OF PHP, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW ###

1) Remove OLD Apache

sudo service httpd stop
sudo yum erase httpd httpd-tools apr apr-util

2) Remove OLD PHP

sudo yum remove php-*

3) Install PHP 5.6 (Apache 2.4 will be automatically installed with this)
sudo yum install php56

4) Make sure all the required PHP extensions are installed (YOU CAN SKIP STEP 4 AND STEP 5)
yum list installed | grep php
5) If not then install them using
sudo yum install php56-xml php56-xmlrpc php56-soap php56-gd

6) To list the other available php extensions
yum search php56

7) PHP 5.6 MySQL extension (Assume you have already installed MySQL)
sudo yum install php56-mysqlnd

(NOTE: it is not php56-mysql)

8) Start / Restart Apache
sudo service httpd start
sudo service httpd restart

9) Check the version
php -v
httpd -v