I was recently updating a wordpress site and was in the process of updating the Elementor, Elementor Pro, and Jet Elements plugins and got the dreaded White Screen of Death when trying to edit with Elementor. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure it out. So I did some research and found that people have increased php memory limits, changed the loader option for Elementor, and some other things. Nothing worked. Disabling the Jet Elements plugin seemed to work, but then my Jet Elements were missing. So I went to the Elementor website and saw the requirements. They required PHP7, the server was running PHP5.6. Although it said that PHP5+ would work, it could cause issues. The server was running CentOS 7, so a quick search on the CentOS wiki, I stumbled upon the CentOS How To’s for PHP7.
I followed the guide to the “T” and everything worked as expected after the PHP upgrade.
Remember that if you run mysql or mariadb, you’ll need the php7 mysql stuff.
yum -y install rh-php70-php-mysqlnd