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Your site is running an insecure version of PHP (7.3.33), which should be updated.

I get the above message when I login to wordpress. How to update pHP in your server? I have centos-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01

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KFSys
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• December 5, 2022

Hi @praveenvall,

First, you need to disable your PHP 7.3 version:

  1. yum-config-manager --disable remi-php73

Then add the repo for PHP 8 :

  1. wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

  2. wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

  3. rpm -Uvh remi-release-8.rpm epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

Then install PHP 8

  1. yum install yum-utils

  2. yum-config-manager --enable remi-php80

  3. yum update -y

Additionally, you need to install some php extensions. You can do that by using the following

yum install php80-curl

And the exntesions you need to install are:

  1. 

  2. yum install php80-dom php80-curlzip php80-exif php80-fileinfo php80-hash php80-imagick php80-json php80-mbstring php80-mysqli php80-openssl php80-pcre php80-sodium  php80-xml php80-zip php80-bcmath php80-filter php80-gd php80-iconv php80-intl php80-mcrypt php80-simplexml php80-xmlreader php80-zlib

After that you just need to enable the PHP version in on APache as well

  1. sudo a2dismod php7.3

  2. sudo a2enmod php8

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