How to update php version from 7.3 to 7.4 with OLWS on Ubuntu 20.04?

[saz99]

Can anyone help me update the PHP version of my WordPress website from PHP 7.3 to 7.4?
I am using Digital ocean hosting and have deployed my website using WordPress on Openlitespeed package from the digital ocean marketplace. However, I always end up getting a critical error on my website.

Here are the commands I tried on the digital ocean console -

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install -y php7.4

I also changed the script header by following Step 5 of this guide: (link) https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial...tos-8/#step-configure-openlitespeed-with-php-

I am a noob, so if anyone can share a step by step guide, it will be wonderful. Thank you so much in advance.

 

[Pong]

Have you got chance to check OLS KB https://openlitespeed.org/kb/php-via-rpm/ ?
If so, you will see you will need to enable litespeed repository, and install a lot of packages about lsphp74 and lsphp74-*. The KB example is a lsphp56, lsphp74 should be similar.

 

[Cold-Egg]

Hi @saz99 ,

You can also follow https://docs.litespeedtech.com/cloud/images/wordpress/#how-do-i-set-up-virtual-host-specific-php to setup PHP74. Next wordpress image update will has the PHP74 installed by default.

 

[Pong]

I would also recommend you should use Cyberpanel + OLS together since free cyberpanel has automated a lot of stuff including installation of multi php versions. It will make the life much easier.

but you can not install cyberpanel on your exiting OLS, it should be a bare OS.

https://cyberpanel.net/docs/installing-cyberpanel/

 

[saz99]

I would also recommend you should use Cyberpanel + OLS together since free cyberpanel has automated a lot of stuff including installation of multi php versions. It will make the life much easier.

but you can not install cyberpanel on your exiting OLS, it should be a bare OS.

https://cyberpanel.net/docs/installing-cyberpanel/

I actually don't want to use cyberpanel as it consumes a lot of resources on my $5 droplet.

 

[saz99]

@Cold-Egg
Thank you so much It worked!

 

[Cold-Egg]

No problem, glad to know it works.

 

[era_uma_vez]

@saz99
@Cold-Egg

I am in @saz99 previous situation with 7.3 on Digital Ocean Hosting for a Wordpress website.
Did @Cold-Egg suggestion, thank you for that. Installing PHP 7.4.9

But, when I do PHP --version, it shows 7.3.17 not 7.4
And the same happens at Wordpress, is current running 7.3.17.

So, I do appreciate all your comments in advance for these questions:
1. How to enable PHP 7.4
2. How to delete PHP 7.3
3. And if is safe to delete PHP 7.3 after enable 7.4

Thanks for all
Era

 

[Cold-Egg]

Hi,

It should works on WordPress site, did you restart php yet?

killall -9 lsphp

PHP --version shows 7.3.17 is normal, because it has a softlink to lsphp73. Feel free to use follow command to link php74

ln -sfn /usr/local/lsws/lsphp74/bin/php /usr/bin/php

Please keep php73 exist

Best,
Eric

 

[jtinparallel]

@Cold-Egg a life saver!!
Thank you so much!

 

[Cold-Egg]

happy to help.