Conflicting information about PHP update

  • pacificaikido

    (@pacificaikido)


    5 years, 12 months ago

    Hi, I am getting a message on my dashboard that says “PHP Update Required”, I am currently running version 7.0. When I click on the “learn more about updating PHP” button, a CloudLinux page open & the message says “CloudLinux already took care about the PHP version of your website”. If that is true, why am I getting a warning saying I need to update my PHP? Is there anything I need to do?

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  • oiler

    (@eulerarthur)

    5 years, 12 months ago

    Contact your host or you can update it yourself login into cpanel thereafter search for PHP configuration and update it manually.

    Thread Starter pacificaikido

    (@pacificaikido)

    5 years, 12 months ago

    Thank you. I understand how to do it but I’m not sure on if I need to. I am getting one message saying I need to update the PHP and another saying the current version I have is fine.

    barnez

    (@pidengmor)

    5 years, 12 months ago

    The Site Health tool is warning that you run PHP 7.0, which reached its end of life (e.g. no developmeht or security updates) in Jan 2019 (link). If your host is running Cloud Linux, and it states you are still safe, then probably the host is running a package that patches the vulnerabilities in older versuons of PHP (e.g. Hardened PHP). Site Health is just a reporting tool. It has no way of checking if your host runs a packkage to patch the vulnerabilities in unsupported versions of PHP.

    Site admins tend to stay on older versions of PHP as updates will break ther sites due to incompatbility. If your plugins/theme/wordpress version support the most recent PHP 7.3/7.4, then updating will give your site better performance, but the choice to update is yours.

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