# Please confirm PHP 8.3 support for my free hosting account **URL:** \ **Category:** Hosting Support\ **Created:** [October 12, 2026, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/please-confirm-php-8-3-support-for-my-free-hosting-account/121288 "2026-10-12T11:45:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CoastalStays](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/coastalstays/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@CoastalStays](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/CoastalStays)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/please-confirm-php-8-3-support-for-my-free-hosting-account/121288/1 "2026-10-12T11:45:53Z")
### Website URL [http://coastandcountrystays.com](http://coastandcountrystays.com) ### Error Message Hi InfinityFree Support, My WordPress website is hosted on your free hosting service. My current PHP version is 8.2.29, but I understand from your help information that free hosting accounts have been upgraded to PHP 8.3. I need PHP 8.3 because the latest version of Contact Form 7 is not working with my current setup. Could you please confirm whether PHP 8.3 is enabled on my hosting account? If it is, please advise me how to resolve the version mismatch. Thank you for your assistance. ### Other Information My WordPress website is hosted on your free hosting service. My current PHP version is 8.2.29, but I understand from your help information that free hosting accounts have been upgraded to PHP 8.3. I need PHP 8.3 because the latest version of Contact Form 7 is not working with my current setup. Could you please confirm whether PHP 8.3 is enabled on my hosting account? If it is, please advise me how to resolve the version mismatch. Thank you for your assistance. ---
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**Author:** ![InfinityFreeBot](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/infinityfreebot/32/3715_2.png) [@InfinityFreeBot](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/InfinityFreeBot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/please-confirm-php-8-3-support-for-my-free-hosting-account/121288/3 "2026-10-12T11:46:13Z")
_Beep boop, I’m a bot! I dug through the forum to get you started. I sometimes get things wrong though, so do with this what you will until a human has a look._ I can’t confirm from here whether PHP 8.3 is enabled on your account, and I couldn’t find anything that says when each account gets upgraded. A person on our staff would need to look at that. What I did find is that free hosting doesn’t let you pick the PHP version yourself. It’s set at server level, as a staff answer in this topic explains: > [@How to change PHP version](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-change-php-version/104908): > > The theme I use supports PHP 5.6 and I need to upgrade my website to this version. Can you help me please? Another poster in September 2026 describes InfinityFree upgrading their account to PHP 8.4, so upgrades seem to be applied on our side rather than by users: > [@Open\_basedir restriction blocking file uploads after PHP 8.4 upgrade](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/open-basedir-restriction-blocking-file-uploads-after-php-8-4-upgrade/120884): > > Website URL [https://riza.freehosting.dev/](https://riza.freehosting.dev/)Error Message is\_file(): open\_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/tmp/phpf1mqa5kherm20JBmS9P) is not within the allowed path(s): (/php\_sessions:/home/uploads:/tmp:/var/www/errors:/home/vol14\_5/infinityfree.com/if0\_42887215/htdocs) Other Information Other Information: My site uses Laravel/Filament and file uploads were working fine before. When my account was on PHP 8.3, uploads worked without issues. After InfinityFree upgraded my account to PHP… I wouldn’t assume the PHP version is why Contact Form 7 is failing, though. What exactly happens, and is there an error message? Please quote it exactly, whether it’s on the form, in WordPress or in the plugin’s update screen. Also, where did you see 8.2.29? If it was WordPress Site Health or the control panel, say which. And the address in your post is spelled “[coastandcountrystays.com](http://coastandcountrystays.com)”, but your account has a domain spelled “[coastalandcountrystays.com](http://coastalandcountrystays.com)”. Which one is the site with the problem? ---
**Author:** ![CoastalStays](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/coastalstays/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@CoastalStays](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/CoastalStays)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/please-confirm-php-8-3-support-for-my-free-hosting-account/121288/4 "2026-10-12T11:51:49Z")
The website is [coastalandcountrystays.com](http://coastalandcountrystays.com), on the wordpress update plugin page, it says my site is on 8.2.29 and it needs 8.3 to update contact form 7. ---
**Author:** ![Meishin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/meishin/32/59902_2.png) [@Meishin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Meishin)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/please-confirm-php-8-3-support-for-my-free-hosting-account/121288/5 "2026-10-12T12:14:59Z")
Don’t know why did you see PHP 8.2, but free hosting is currently running on PHP 8.4. > [@Free hosting is now upgraded to PHP 8.4](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/free-hosting-is-now-upgraded-to-php-8-4/120906): > > As of last Monday, all free hosting servers have been upgraded to PHP 8.4. A new PHP version is released every year, and free hosting was still on PHP 8.3, which was released in 2023. By now, almost all software has been updated to support PHP 8.4, and more and more software is starting to require it. So with this upgrade, free hosting remains a great place to host the latest and greatest of software. PHP 8.4 comes with a number of changes to the language, including property hooks, asymmetric … But even if you indeed have PHP 8.2 (which is very strange) there’s no way to change PHP versions on free hosting. ---
**Author:** ![Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/admin/32/36437_2.png) [@Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Admin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2026, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/please-confirm-php-8-3-support-for-my-free-hosting-account/121288/6 "2026-10-13T10:44:28Z")
I verified it on your account: your website is running on PHP 8.4.25 right now, just like every other account we host. All PHP 8.3 features are supported, except for those which were removed with PHP 8.4. If your website says it’s still using PHP 8.2, it’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![CoastalStays](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/coastalstays/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@CoastalStays](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/CoastalStays)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2026, 11:09am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/please-confirm-php-8-3-support-for-my-free-hosting-account/121288/7 "2026-10-13T11:09:48Z")
Thank you for your assistance, it is as you say, on version 8.4. I made a mistake on wordpress. I have now upgraded my contact 7 form.