WordPress Install sees PHP 7.0.x but Server says PHP 8.1 installed - how to connect things correctly?

Posted May 3, 2022
Apache PHP

Hello all, I hope you can help. I’ve updated PHP on my droplet (LAMP 16.04) and when I do php -v, it tells me PHP 8.1. But my WordPress install is still seeing PHP 7.0.x. I added phpinfo.php and that ALSO says PHP 7.0.x

How can I make sure that the latest PHP version is the one used? I looked at several tutorials and questions answered and I somehow am not finding the right answer. I tried a couple things and I seem to have munted the droplet, so currently running a restore from yesterday’s backup.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Nicolas Steenhout

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KFSys • May 4, 2022

Hi @vavroom,

I’ll give you the steps required from the the installation of the PHP version to enabling it

Update your repositories:

sudo apt update

Install PHP 8.1 along with all of the required PHP modules:

sudo apt install php8.1 php8.1-cli php8.1-mysql php8.1-curl php8.1-gd php8.1-mbstring php8.1-xml php8.1-xmlrpc php8.1-soap php8.1-intl php8.1-zip libapache2-mod-php8.1 php8.1-common php8.1-json php8.1-opcache php8.1-readline