How to upgrade php version in uWamp

Question

Trying to initiate local Wordpress i got the message : Votre serveur utilise la version 5.6.18 de PHP mais WordPress 5.2 nécessite au moins la version 5.6.20. How can I solve the problem Thanks and Regards

Answer 1

You can update PHP version within the control panel of uWamp. also you can install manually any version that you want and uWamp will recognize.

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Answer 2

After manually upgrading php to version 7.4.9 in uWamp there is a warning in phpMyAdmin. This is caused by a too old version of phpMyAdmin in uWamp. After upgrading phpMyAdmin to version 4.9.5 the warnig in phpAdmin has been gone.

Answer 3

As a note, you might simply copy over an existing php_uwamp.ini file into the new PHP folder to retain the customizations you have. Please bear in mind that when switching to a new MAJOR version (v7 to v8) the .ini may have changed.

Answer 4

After a few failures I finally managed to make php-7.4.24 and php-8.0.10 run - and it's very easy!

1. Go to the PHP Windows Download Page.

2. Get the x86 Thread Safe version(s)

3. UnZIP to a (in my case) php-7.4.23 and php-8.0.10 folder

4. Add this lines to httpd_uwamp.conf around line 166:

   Define {PHPMODULENAME} {PHPMODULENAME}

<IfDefine php8_module>
LoadModule php_module "{PHPPATH}/{PHPAPACHE2FILE}"
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine php7_module>
LoadModule {PHPMODULENAME} "{PHPPATH}/{PHPAPACHE2FILE}"
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine php5_module>
LoadModule {PHPMODULENAME} "{PHPPATH}/{PHPAPACHE2FILE}"
</IfDefine>

5. Start UwAmp.
6. It will find the new php versions and ask if you want to install, say yes, and choose the production ini

Code sample is from this link