How to change the PHP version?

[zhouqing]

How to change the PHP version? I just installed the DirectAdmin panel and found that PHP is 81, I want php72

 

[Richard G]

You can do that via the custombuild plugin.
Change php1 to 72 and then recompile php.

Alternative method, is login as root via ssh and issue these commands:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build set php1_release 7.2
./build php

This can not be done on Alma Linux 9 and anything else using openssl 3.0 because on that you can only run php 8.1 and later.

 

[johannes]

you should use at minimum php 8.0. Even php 7.4 is EOL now.

 

[Ohm J]

You can use EOL version, but don't expect security from php-core. You must security by yourself.