Hey,
please advise me, I installed PHP 7.4 via a terminal, but Joomla still reports that I have 7.2 and I don’t know where to “enable it”?
Many thanks for the advice :-)
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×Hi there,
If you are using mod PHP, then you can do that with the following:
First disable PHP 7.2:
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sudo a2dismod php7.2
Then enable PHP 7.4:
sudo a2enmod php7.4
Finally restart Apache.
Let me know how it goes!
Regards,
Bobby
Thx for quick answer. I did, but joomla admin and websites doesnt work (white screen with error). I also checked dir.conf and looks ok (if I have index.php). Dont know what else? Please, can you advice? Thank you
Hi there,
Did you get any errors when running the commands?
I could suggest checking if the module is enabled with the following command:
apachectl -M | grep php
If the PHP module is not present you can install it with:
sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php7.4 libapache2-mod-php
Also I could suggest running a config test with the following command:
sudo apachectl -t
Regards,
Bobby
Hi Bobby,
thank you, but no issues when I installed newer PHP. Then I did exactly that, what you wrote - but same problem (error) no changes. And now terminal show me this:
root@GarantDesign:~# apachectl -M | grep php
** php**7_module (shared)
root@GarantDesign:~#
Unfortunately, I really dont know whats wrong… :-( Please, any idea?
Hi there,
Do you get any errors when running this command:
sudo apachectl -t
Also did you restart Apache after enabling the new module?
Regards,
Bobby
Hello,
This is very interesting, can you run the following command and share the output here:
sudo ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
This will list all of the enabled modules.
Regards,
Bobby
root@GarantDesign:~# sudo ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Jun 11 2019 access_compat.load -> ../mods-available/access_compat.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jun 11 2019 alias.conf -> ../mods-available/alias.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jun 11 2019 alias.load -> ../mods-available/alias.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 11 2019 auth_basic.load -> ../mods-available/auth_basic.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 11 2019 authn_core.load -> ../mods-available/authn_core.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 11 2019 authn_file.load -> ../mods-available/authn_file.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 11 2019 authz_core.load -> ../mods-available/authz_core.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 11 2019 authz_host.load -> ../mods-available/authz_host.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 11 2019 authz_user.load -> ../mods-available/authz_user.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jun 11 2019 autoindex.conf -> ../mods-available/autoindex.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jun 11 2019 autoindex.load -> ../mods-available/autoindex.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 11 2019 deflate.conf -> ../mods-available/deflate.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 11 2019 deflate.load -> ../mods-available/deflate.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jun 11 2019 dir.conf -> ../mods-available/dir.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jun 11 2019 dir.load -> ../mods-available/dir.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jun 11 2019 env.load -> ../mods-available/env.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 11 2019 filter.load -> ../mods-available/filter.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 15 2019 headers.load -> ../mods-available/headers.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jul 15 2019 http2.load -> ../mods-available/http2.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 11 2019 mime.conf -> ../mods-available/mime.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 11 2019 mime.load -> ../mods-available/mime.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jun 11 2019 mpm_prefork.conf -> ../mods-available/mpm_prefork.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jun 11 2019 mpm_prefork.load -> ../mods-available/mpm_prefork.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jun 11 2019 negotiation.conf -> ../mods-available/negotiation.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jun 11 2019 negotiation.load -> ../mods-available/negotiation.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 23 12:47 php7.4.conf -> ../mods-available/php7.4.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 23 12:47 php7.4.load -> ../mods-available/php7.4.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 11 2019 reqtimeout.conf -> ../mods-available/reqtimeout.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 11 2019 reqtimeout.load -> ../mods-available/reqtimeout.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 11 2019 rewrite.load -> ../mods-available/rewrite.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jun 11 2019 setenvif.conf -> ../mods-available/setenvif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jun 11 2019 setenvif.load -> ../mods-available/setenvif.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Jul 15 2019 socache_shmcb.load -> ../mods-available/socache_shmcb.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jul 15 2019 ssl.conf -> ../mods-available/ssl.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jul 15 2019 ssl.load -> ../mods-available/ssl.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 11 2019 status.conf -> ../mods-available/status.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 11 2019 status.load -> ../mods-available/status.load
root@GarantDesign:~#
Hey,
Thanks for that! It looks like that php7.4 is already enabled.
What I could suggest is adding an info.php file and visiting it via your browser to make sure that it works:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
Let me know how it goes!
Regards,
Bobby
Hi Bobby,
I have phpinfo.php (same code) and i tried via my browser (Safari / Chrome also) and same problem.... :-/. Websites still doesnt work a same white screen.... Bobby pls, whats wrong, I just did upgrade PHP… nothing more....
Hello,
Do you see any errors in your error log?
tail -100 /var/log/apache2/error.log
What is the exact output that you get when you visit the PHP info file?
Do you see any errors in the web console of your browser?
Regards,
Bobby