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I’ve installed PHP 8.1.6. Works flawless… except for my cron task for a laravel site. This is invoked as

cd /home/website/public_html && /bin/php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

When I logon as root to the terminal the command php --version shows 8.1.6 but /bin/php --version is still shows version 7.4

I can’t seem to find how to make 8.1.6 the default. (/bin/php81 also does the trick but I’d rather have /bin/php set to the latest version so I don’t have to update all cron-tasks)

thanks in advance!

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Centos 7
Virtualmin version latest
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Hello,

It must be possible to run update-alternatives --set php /bin/php81 to have it done. Although, I am not sure if that works on CentOS 7.

The work-around that should, I think, work is simply creating a symlink to needed PHP version on one of the directories that are specified first on the PATH, for example:

cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s /bin/php81 php

Restart your terminal session and see if that works.

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the symbolic link did the tric! Thanks

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