PHP version upgrade required for Composer

anon90933456 · July 16, 2023, 4:50pm

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anon25822826:

Hello everyone,

I am facing a problem with the PHP version on my InfinityFree account. I recently tried to run my app which uses Composer to manage dependencies. However, when running the “composer install” command, I get the following error:

Fatal error: Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version “>= 8.1.0”. You are running 7.4.8.

According to the error, my Composer dependencies require a minimum PHP version “>= 8.1.0”, while my account is currently using PHP version 7.4.8.

I would like to kindly request a PHP version upgrade on my account in order to be able to use these dependencies. Is it possible to perform this upgrade on my InfinityFree account?

I appreciate in advance any help or information you can give me to solve this problem. If you need additional information, such as my account name or my website domain, please let me know.

Thank you for your time!

Sincerely,
CodexPE

In reply to this:

I’m sure to answer: no, you can’t change PHP version on free hosting. There is already a PHP upgrade to PHP 8.1 in the way, but it’ll be rolled out once iFastNet gets missing PHP extensions back to that PHP version. You might be better off downgrading the dependencies’ versions so that they are compatible with PHP 7.4 though, or even better downgrade the version of the software that requires Composer you’re using to a version that is still compatible with PHP 7.4 for now, or if you still need the latest version of the dependencies, either wait for the PHP rollout on all hosting accounts or upgrade to Premium Hosting as there you’ll also have PHP 8, a version selector for PHP, and more features than on free hosting.