Question Cannot remove PHP 7.4 because conflict with Roundcube

[PeopleInside]

Hi,
is too son for remove PHP 7.4 from Plesk?
Now I'm using for websites PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1

If I try to unistall PHP 7.4 I get alert RoundCube is using it.
I need wait Plesk will use PHP 8.0 for RoundCube? This will be done with a future update by the Plesk team?

Thanks for the help.
Good new year.

 

[sebgonzes]

Hi,
is too son for remove PHP 7.4 from Plesk?
Now I'm using for websites PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1

If I try to unistall PHP 7.4 I get alert RoundCube is using it.
I need wait Plesk will use PHP 8.0 for RoundCube? This will be done with a future update by the Plesk team?

Thanks for the help.
Good new year.

why you want to remove php 7.4? it's not an problem to configure your subscription with php8 and maintain php 7.4....

 

[IgorG]

Indeed, webmails requires PHP 7.4 to work and you cannot remove it if you need to use webmails.

 

[Achim Drees]

We need Roundcube 1.5.x with php8 support.

 

[Hangover2]

@IgorG PHP 7.4 is end of life on November 28th 2022 (in 9 days). As our security policy does not allow to use unsupported PHP versions we have now the trouble, that we would loose Roundcube Webmail support on our servers as the package still depends on PHP 7.4.

Will there be a Plesk update release "18.0.48 Update 1" in the next days dealing with that security issue? Please hurry up, we were very surprised that this problem does still exist.

 

[PeopleInside]

I'm sorry about Plesk still use by default PHP 7.4 and I think it's a good point that your security policy never allow to use deprecated software.
If Plesk never fix this you can always try to install and use snappymail while wait the PHP upgrade.

 

[Hangover2]

Our clients are using the address book of Roundcube. This makes a drop-in replacement very hard. Now we are testing to setup a new PHP handler for webmail as described in the following Plesk article: How to change PHP version for webmail in Plesk for Linux.

 

[Hangover2]

The article mentioned does work for us. We did switch to PHP 8.1. Just point 7 of the tutorial is wrong.

plesk repair web -domains-only

... is needed as last step instead of:

plesk repair web -server

... to regenerate the Apache webmail configuration files under "/etc/apache2/plesk.conf.d/webmails/".

 

[IgorG]

@IgorG PHP 7.4 is end of life on November 28th 2022 (in 9 days). As our security policy does not allow to use unsupported PHP versions we have now the trouble, that we would loose Roundcube Webmail support on our servers as the package still depends on PHP 7.4.

Will there be a Plesk update release "18.0.48 Update 1" in the next days dealing with that security issue? Please hurry up, we were very surprised that this problem does still exist.

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[fmdeveloper]

#2

Is there still no update that fixes this?

Are our only choices either to uninstall webmail or do How to change PHP version for webmail in Plesk for Linux.?

 

[Peter Debik]

@fmdeveloper Please explain what choices you would like to have.

 

[fmdeveloper]

@fmdeveloper Please explain what choices you would like to have.

If webmail supports a secure/supported version of PHP, it should be auto-configured to use that version. Why is it a manual process?