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Update: I chatted with GoDaddy support. They deactivated htaccess and my check.php file reported correct php version. They ran rebug and saw that one of my plugins was causing the issue., Nextgen-gallery. They deactivated it and restored the htaccess file. WordPress saw the correct PHP and was able to update. Thank you for the help!

thanks. I did get a page like the one above.
“PHP Version 5.6.40”

@jerrymayalor555 I don’t see a way to attach an image here. But here’s the line: “You cannot update because WordPress 6.4.3 requires PHP version 7.0.0 or higher. You are running version 5.6.40.”

thank you.

I’ve tried 4 different versions. 5.6, 7.3, 7.4, 8.2. No matter the PHP version, WordPress thinks I have 5.6 and won’t update.

I’ve tried “#” on the the addhandler line. I also tried moving the addhandler line to top, before “# begin wordpress”

RewriteEngine on



# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN WordPress" and "END WordPress" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

AddHandler application/x-httpd-alt-php56___lsphp .php

DirectoryIndex default.html default.htm index.php index.shtml index.html index.htm home.html home.htm index.php5 welcome.html welcome.htm
Options -Indexes