My server configuration (DigitalOcen): 4GB RAM | 80 GB Disk Ubuntu 16.04 x64 (NGINX) - WordPress Current PHP version: 7.0.33 Reason to upgrade: WordPress Error - PHP Update Required Kindly help.Thank you!

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Question

How to upgrade PHP 7.0.33 to 7.4.7 on Ubuntu 16.04 (NGINX)?

Posted on June 19, 2020

By c7e29723d5d54493b8ee8ff21343d8

My server configuration (DigitalOcen):

4GB RAM | 80 GB Disk
Ubuntu 16.04 x64 (NGINX) - WordPress

Current PHP version: 7.0.33

Reason to upgrade: WordPress Error - PHP Update Required

Kindly help. Thank you!

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KFSys

June 21, 2020

Accepted Answer

Hi @chinmayrajyaguru,

You can actually upgrade the PHP version, you can just install a new one.

Firstly, to be able to install a certain PHP version, in this case, 7.2 you’ll need to add a certain repository to your system

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Update the repository index.

sudo apt update

Install PHP 7.4 with the below command.

sudo apt install -y php7.4 php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-fpm

To install extensions run

sudo apt install -y php7.4-mysql php7.4-dom php7.4-simplexml php7.4-ssh2 php7.4-xml php7.4-xmlreader php7.4-curl  php7.4-exif  php7.4-ftp php7.4-gd  php7.4-iconv php7.4-imagick php7.4-json  php7.4-mbstring php7.4-posix php7.4-sockets php7.4-tokenizer

The above are the required extensions for your WordPRess installation. Having said that it’s good to have these extensions as well.

sudo apt install -y php7.4-mysqli php7.4-pdo  php7.4-sqlite3 php7.4-ctype php7.4-fileinfo php7.4-zip php7.4-exif

That’s it, you now have your PHP version installed.

David Crabill

June 26, 2020

After bouncing around between a lot of tutorials, I finally got this to work. Here are the commands I needed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt -y install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php7.4
sudo apt-get install php7.4-mysql
php -v (check to make sure PHP 7.4 is installed)
sudo apt install php7.4-fpm php7.4-common php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-gd php7.4-xml php7.4-mysql php7.4-cli php7.4-zip php7.4-curl
sudo a2dismod php7.0
sudo a2enmod php7.4
sudo service apache2 restart

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