I'm newly use WordPress and want to install WordPress on web host.
But I'm confuse in version selection. My web server support PHP Version 5.4
Suggest me which version of WordPress can run on above php version.
According to this site, the minimum to run wordpress is PHP v 5.6 although you could run it on 5.5 but without support.
The website says that:
Note: If you are in a legacy environment where you only have older PHP or MySQL versions, WordPress also works with PHP 5.2.4+ and MySQL 5.0+, but these versions have reached official End Of Life and as such may expose your site to security vulnerabilities
So, I'm quite sure that PHP 5.5 and below may not supported and/or deprecated but still works!
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I have a commercial membership site php program on the server, but after the server upgrade it no longer works. The provider has ceased to operate so there is no support. I am using php 7.0.15, but the server wants me to upgrade to a more recent version, 7.4. This breaks the program /all I get is a blank screen)
My level of PHP does not allow me to debug such a complicated program. My question is:
is there any way of instructing php to only use the older version? I imagine that this would have to be done in the php.ini file on the server?
I would like to upgrade to php 7.4 on the server, but have this software run in php 7.0.
Is this possible?
The simple answer is No - PHP does not offer any options to emulate the behaviour of previous versions.
Partly because features are sometimes removed because they prevented changes in the engine, or would need a lot of work to operate with them; partly just because there is only a limited amount of resources available to work on the core of PHP, and maintaining multiple versions of each feature to enable such compatibility would take effort away from improving the current version.
Your short-term option is to find a way to run an actual copy of PHP 7.0 on the server, or a different server that will allow you to run it. You may need to pay someone who provides unofficial long-term support for old versions, since the last official security patch for that version was over 3 years ago. Even PHP 7.4 will only receive official security patches until the end of this year.
In the long term, your only options are to hire someone to update the application to run on a modern version of PHP, or to migrate to a different application which still has a vendor supporting it.
Current PHP version for my dev server 7.0.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.
My client is using redhat with php version 5.3
if ubuntu is changed to centos or red hat , functionality of php 7.0 and hence Wordpress plugin still consistent ?
I am talking about the plugin Super Form
PHP 5.3 has different operator precedence to 7.x, if memory serves. So retaining the PHP version would be a problem. Plugins should work exactly the same between different OSes providing that permissions are the same. Changing between Apache and Nginx can break them if they're dependent on rewrites/.htaccess.
I hope that helps.
My client wants to experiment around with Wordpress on a server that they have currently a Typo3 CMS running on. I'm supposed to set it up, without making the old website unusable.
Current website is e.g. www.test.com and that shouldn't change -
It doesn't really matter how to get to that wordpress site but I guess something like www.test.com/test_wordpress would be nice.
The Server is running on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 2.6.32-042stab120.6 i686) and the PHP Version is 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.25
I'm afraid the newest Wordpress can't run on this PHP Version.(?)
But if I update it I think the old Website would get a lot of problems.
Is there a way to run multiple PHP Versions on that Server?
If not and if there's no way to run Wordpress on the old PHP version I'd rather just get an older release because it should be done quickly and is just for playing around.
How should I install Wordpress (just the basic steps in order not to overwrite and break anything from the old website would be enough)?
I installed Wordpress on a virtual server (with Vagrant) before, but since the environment is different this time I'm asking here for help what I have to watch out for in order not to break any existing functionality of the main Typo3 CMS currently running on the server.
Wordpress will work with your PHP version
please check
https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
Note: If you are in a legacy environment where you only have older PHP or MySQL versions, WordPress also works with PHP 5.2.4+ and MySQL 5.0+, but these versions have
i am thinking about migrating from php 5.3 to php 5.6 on my company's server, but i'm concerned about how it may affect other websites on the server, especially joomla and wordpress app's, which were hosted some few years back, like 2011. I was trying to host a new website that uses 'get_result()' but i was having some errors when hosting it, even though mysqlnd driver was present, i could only fetch my results using'bind_result()'. so i debugged it, and found out that it's because of a certain driver nd_mysqli which is present in php 5.6. So that's why i decided to upgrade. Are there any issues that could come after this upgrade? Or is there another way of getting the nd_mysqli driver? though honestly i'd prefer to upgrade, this is 2017, it's about time for that.
A fair amount has changed between 5.3 and 5.6, so it is hard to say exactly what issues you may face.
If you are running recent versions of joomla and wordpress the chances are they are compatible as the relevant developers will already have fixed any issues, but if they are as old as php 5.3 then you may run into issues.
Whatever you do, you should create a test server to be sure.
The following pages show the changes that have been made:
http://php.net/manual/en/migration54.php
http://php.net/manual/en/migration55.php
http://php.net/manual/en/migration56.php
You really should upgrade though php 5.3 no longer receives security patches and you are likely vulnerable to something.
It depends on the versions of Joomla and WordPress.
For example, it might be possible to get Joomla 1.5 and older versions of WordPress running on PHP 5.6, but you will need to suppress strict errors as per https://stackoverflow.com/a/9984309/1983389 or similar. It will also depend on what extensions / add-ons are being used.
As #Theo says, it is probably best to do this change in a test environment first so that any issues can be identified and resolved before proceeding with the change on the production server.
An alternative and better long term strategy might be to upgrade the Joomla, WordPress and any other applications on the server before upgrading PHP.
My website is running in CakePHP 1.3 and PHP 5.3. I got a mail from the host that they will be upgrading PHP to 5.5. How will it affect my website? What all changes should I make to keep my website working in PHP 5.5?
This won't change much, you'll have updated functions available and certain old ones may be deprecated.
This isn't a large PHP update, for a list of changes look here: http://php.net/manual/en/migration54.php
http://php.net/manual/en/migration55.changes.php