Mgilder

Thank you. I had already tried that.
I created a Curl script to run in a browser, so that I can see what was going on with my wordpress sites.

<?php
   $url = "https://www.wordpress.org/";
   $ch = curl_init();
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, false);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "https://www.wordpress.org");
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
   $result = curl_exec($ch);
   echo $result;
   echo "Curl error: ".curl_errno($ch)."</br>";
   echo "URL: ".$url; curl_close($ch);
?>

When I run it in a browser I get this –
301 Moved Permanently
nginx
Curl error: 0
URL: https://www.wordpress.org/

Strange, right? I know this is still wordpress.org address.
Yes, I can ping wordpress.org and I can nslookup wordpress.org, no problems, on my locally hosted server.
So, I wanted to get /opt/rh/httpd24 out of the picture, and changed things to use the RH core httpd apache.
When I switch my site back to using /etc/httpd/ with rh-php56 everything resolves well in WordPress.
When I switch my site back to using /etc/httpd/ with rh-php73 wordpress.org is unreachable, or moved in WordPress.

I have a RHEL OS support case open, but thought that I would post on a WordPress Forum to see if anyone here has had this problem.
Thank you for your suggestion. I do appreciate it.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

Surely there must be someone who has WordPress running on their own server and had to upgrade their php. How do I change a wordpress site to use a different version of php than it is currently using?

“WordPress 5.5.1 requires PHP version 5.6.20 or higher. You are running version 5.4.16.”

Is there a configuration file in a wordpress site to point it to use a different php install. I do not have cpanel, or a hosted site that provides tools to do this. I would need to manually configure a site to use the different version, from php-5.4 to php-5.6 version. Any help would be great. This is beyond the scope of a redhat support question, and more related to wordpress. I found how to install and setup wordpress with php-xx.x and mysql-xx.x, and how to use cpanel to change php, but have not seen how to manually change/configure WP to use another version of php.