Resolved Debian 11 / PHP 7.3

[Erwan]

Hi all,

There isn't PHP 7.3 with Plesk / Debian 11.
Only 7.4.

I know the version is deprecated but is there a way to add it to Plesk for project compatibility?

 

[ChristophRo]

You can add the PHP repo of DEB.SURY.ORG (see https://packages.sury.org/php/README.txt for instructions) to add PHP 5.6, ... 8.1 to your server.
After installing you simply add them as custom PHP versions to plesk. (there is a CLI command for that)

We use this on many of our Debian 9, Debian 10 and now also Debian 11 servers without any issues.

 

[Erwan]

Ok. Thank you very much.

 

[Erwan]

After installing you simply add them as custom PHP versions to plesk. (there is a CLI command for that)
Do you know the link for that ?

 

[Martin Dias]

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000497853--How-to-add-a-custom-PHP-version-in-Plesk-for-Linux-

 

[ChristophRo]

here the command I would use to add such a "FPM" handler for PHP 7.3 on a Debian

plesk bin php_handler --add -displayname 7.3.x -path /usr/sbin/php-fpm7.3 -phpini /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini -type fpm -id os-php73-fpm -clipath /usr/bin/php7.3 -service php7.3-fpm -poold /etc/php/7.3/fpm/pool.d/

We use "7.3.x" for displayname, because this name does not get updated in Plesk, whenever there is a new minor version out you may (automatically) install via apt update.
So it would for example still show 7.3.33, though in reality you have 7.3.34 installed.....sure, does not hurt anyone, but could cause confusions

 

[Erwan]

Thank you ChristophRo

 

[nisamudeen97]

I have followed the same doc for Ubuntu 22 and it also worked.