Title: WordPress Multisite not detecting php7
Last modified: October 22, 2019

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# WordPress Multisite not detecting php7

 *  [thinqlabs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thinqlabs/)
 * (@thinqlabs)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-not-detecting-php7/)
 * hi, been struggling with this issue for months could not figure it out. I think
   originally we set up dual versions of php something like 5.3 and 5.6. Since then
   updated to php 7, but our wordpress multisite installation isn’t seeing the php7
   and still thinks the server is running php5.x, keeps giving us update warnings.
   We even checked the phpinfo in that domain, it also says its on php7. We are 
   out of ideas, hoping someone here has encountered a problem like this before,
   it would be greatly appreciated!

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 *  [scsiraidguru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scsiraidguru/)
 * (@scsiraidguru)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-not-detecting-php7/#post-12055320)
 * [https://websiteforstudents.com/upgrading-wordpress-php-7-1-to-php-7-2-to-php-7-3-on-ubuntu-16-04-18-04-with-apache2/](https://websiteforstudents.com/upgrading-wordpress-php-7-1-to-php-7-2-to-php-7-3-on-ubuntu-16-04-18-04-with-apache2/)
 * This will help you upgrade to 7.3.
 * This is what I use to install PHP for WordPress.
    sudo apt install php7.3 libapache2-
   mod-php7.3 php7.3-common php7.3-mysql php7.3-gmp php7.3-curl php7.3-intl php7.3-
   mbstring php7.3-xmlrpc php7.3-gd php7.3-xml php7.3-cli php7.3-zip I have been
   working on better securing my web sites in WP. I installed the Health Check plugin.
   It checked the php components and found a few missing. CURL, which I had installed
   so I refollowed these steps to verify it for php 7.3
 *  First Install CURL by typing sudo apt-get install curl
    Then Restart Apache 
   by typing sudo service apache2 restart Then Install PHP5 CURL by typing sudo 
   apt-get install php7.3-curl will prompt to install… type y or yes! Then Restart
   Apache by typing sudo service apache2 restart Done! It now shows up in phpMyAdmin.
 * I have upgraded to the latest LAMP components that you are read about on Ubuntu
   pages. I am on the latest version of WordPress. This mainly affects my main webpage
   with videos of my children. These files can be huge.
    /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini/
   etc/php/7.3/apache2/php.ini upload_max_filesize = 768M post_max_size =768M memory_limit
   = 768M max_execution_time = 360 Health Check said these two components were missing.
   fpm had some errors too. sudo apt-get install php7.3-bcmath sudo apt-get install
   php7.3-imagick I ran the commands below in various order to fix fpm sudo a2enmod
   proxy_fcgi setenvif sudo a2enconf php7.3-fpm sudo apt purge libapache2-mod-php7.3
   libapache2-mod-php sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php7.3 libapache2-mod-php 
   After I fixed these errors, I ran update and dist-upgrade again to get the latest
   versions.

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