

Web hosts have the ability to update your PHP version.

For more options, please see WPBeginner’s post: 7 Best WordPress Backup Plugins Compared (Pros and Cons). Prerequisites: Before making any major changes to your site, we recommend backing up your website first.įor most sites, we recommend the popular BackupBuddy plugin.
#Php versions upgrade
Most sites can upgrade to PHP 7+ without issues, which is our recommendation. You should update your PHP version to 7.4 or greater (whatever the latest version is that is offered by your web host). WordPress working towards discontinuing support for PHP 5.6 – 7.1. We highly recommend upgrading to PHP 7.4 or newer (your website will be 400% faster if you do), but at the minimum you need to update to PHP 7.2.Īlongside WordPress Core, we discontinued support for PHP 5.2 and 5.3 in April, 2019, and PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 in November, 2019. MonsterInsights, following WordPress’s lead, is adopting the same minimum requirements as WordPress is over a phased period. WordPress Core is removing support for older versions of PHP, and that means your site will not be able to get new versions of WordPress, and in the future potentially even security fixes, making your site both unnecessarily slow and potentially vulnerable to hackers. In fact, the version of PHP your website is using no longer receives security updates, which is why we sent you the notice. Newer versions of PHP are both faster and more secure. The version that is currently used for your site is either insecure or no longer supported. PHP is the programming language that WordPress and MonsterInsights are built on. You can configure the PHP version being used for a specific Virtual Server by selecting Server Configuration → PHP Options.If you were linked to this page from your WordPress dashboard, then it means that you’re running an outdated version of PHP. You can change that default in System Settings → Server Templates → Default → PHP Options page. The default is to use the newest available. You can configure which one is the default PHP version used on new Virtual Servers.

The following PHP execution modes are available : fpm Once you have completed the installation of a second PHP version on your server, you can verify that Virtualmin sees it by logging into Virtualmin, and clicking System Settings → Re-Check Config.
#Php versions install
php7.4, unless you really need to install all available additional PHP versions.Ĭonfiguring the second PHP Version in Virtualmin Note: php* should be replaced with a specific PHP version, i.e. Install additional PHP packages dnf install php*-php. etc/os-release & dnf -y install $(rpm -E %$ID).rpm & dnf clean all

Installing on Alma, Rocky, CentOS Stream, Fedora Linux Install Remi repository and clear cache Latter mode enables to set different PHP versions on per-directory basis. Available execution modes are FPM (recommended) and CGI/FCGId. If you have multiple PHP versions installed, Virtualmin allows you to choose execution mode and PHP version used for a given domain. 6 Configuring Individual Virtual Servers.5 Configuring the second PHP Version in Virtualmin.2.1 Install Remi repository and clear cache.2 Installing on Alma, Rocky, CentOS Stream, Fedora Linux.
