Resolved Uninstall PHP from OS vendor

[marowi]

Hello,

I am running Plesk Obsidian 18.0.30 and would like to know if I can uninstall PHP from OS vendor? This is 7.0.33 and outdated.



All websites on our server run PHP 7.4, so I don't really need the outdated OS vendor version.



But I want to make sure that it does not cause any problems when I uninstall it.

The only post I found about this is a bit older:

Question - PHP by OS vendor uninstallation

Hi, yesterday I read about users who want to use Plesk17.9 by upgrade or fresh installation have to delete PHP7 by OS vendor. Then I wanted to do this step just now to be prepared for the future. I don't use PHP by OS vendor at all for webhosting. By opening updates/upgrades panel and trying to...

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Best regards
Manuel

 

[VNick]

Yes, it's possible since Plesk Obsidian.

 

[marowi]

Ok, thank you. I will try it later and report.

 

[marowi]

It worked without any problems.

Plesk now feels a bit faster too. But maybe it's just coincidence.

 

[marowi]

After uninstalling PHP from OS vendor (7.0.33) and PHP 7.2.33, I now get the following error message every hour by mail:

run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/plesk-php-cleanuper exited with return code 1

 

[IgorG]

After uninstalling PHP from OS vendor (7.0.33) and PHP 7.2.33, I now get the following error message every hour by mail:

The cron script failed to execute becase the /var/lib/php/sessions directory is missing
Create the missing /var/lib/php and /var/lib/php/sessions directories:

# mkdir /var/lib/php
# mkdir /var/lib/php/sessions

Set the correct permissions for these directories:

# chmod 755 /var/lib/php
# chmod 1733 /var/lib/php/sessions

Execute the /etc/cron.hourly/plesk-php-cleanuper task to make sure it runs correctly. Exit code 0 means that the execution was successful:

# sh -x /etc/cron.hourly/plesk-php-cleanuper
+ '[' -e /etc/cron.d/php -a -x /usr/lib/php/sessionclean ']'
+ pgrep -f '.*/etc/cron.hourly/plesk-php-cleanuper$'
+ grep -qv 30892
+ renice 19 -p 30892
+ '[' -x /usr/lib/plesk-9.0/maxlifetime ']'
+ '[' -d /var/lib/php/sessions ']'
++ /usr/lib/plesk-9.0/maxlifetime
+ /usr/lib/plesk-9.0/php_session_cleaner /var/lib/php/sessions 24

# echo $?
0

 

[marowi]

Thanks for the detailed instructions. It worked. Also get no more mails.