How to Change CLI PHP on CyberPanel?

Post by **Kosmito** » Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:56 pm

How you can change the default version of PHP on CLI?

If you have certain needs and PHP 7.4 does not work for certain application you can run following command to update the default PHP on CLI.

Set Command line to PHP 7.3

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ln -sfn /usr/local/lsws/lsphp7.3/bin/php  /usr/bin/php

Set Command line to PHP 7.4

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ln -sfn /usr/local/lsws/lsphp74/bin/php  /usr/bin/php

Set Command line to PHP 8.0

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ln -sfn /usr/local/lsws/lsphp80/bin/php  /usr/bin/php

Set Command line to PHP 8.1

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ln -sfn /usr/local/lsws/lsphp81/bin/php  /usr/bin/php

Set Command line to PHP 8.2

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ln -sfn /usr/local/lsws/lsphp82/bin/php  /usr/bin/php

we make a little test on CLI to Confirm the change with this command and the answer is going to show the version

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# php -v
PHP 8.2.24 (cli) (built: Sep 24 2024 22:12:40) (NTS)
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