How to update PHP to 7.3 for Wordpress One-Click App and Debian 9
Linode
Linode Staff
I have a wordpress site that I am trying to add Jetpack to.
When I click to add Jetpack it does not work.
I suspect it is because I am not on php 7.3
I tried to change to php 7.3 using these instructions.
https://tecadmin.net/install-php-debian-9-stretch/
It did not work.
I could not find help on the forum or support on file.
What am I doing wrong?
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asilverman
Linode Staff
Hey there,
Sorry to see you're running into problems updating PHP on your Wordpress site. I recently updated my PHP for my Wordpress site on Debian 9. I added the commands I ran for quick reference. You should be able to copy-paste them into your terminal. All of the commands assume you logged in as the root user.
apt update && apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install ca-certificates apt-transport-https
wget -q https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
apt update
apt install php7.3
apt install php7.3-cli php7.3-common php7.3-curl php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.3-xml
apache2ctl restart
Then you can run the following command to check your PHP version.
php --version