Dashboard reporting incorrect PHP version - its up to date!

[Parkfield]

Hi,

Not sure what help anybody can give but I keep receiving a PHP warning in dashboard telling me:

"Your PHP version "8.0.30" is lower than "8.1.0"

It isn't, the server is running PHP 8.3 and I've verified this using phpinfo.php as well. The hosts are saying this is an error within Joomla, but I've completed all updates (but not to Joomla 5 - it won't let me anyway due to the php error) and there's no change whatsoever.

Has anybody got any suggestions please, thank you in advance?

[toivo]

Welcome to the Joomla forum!

When you ran the script phpinfo.php, was it run from the main Joomla folder, the same folder where the file configuration.php is located?

[Parkfield]

Welcome to the Joomla forum!

When you ran the script phpinfo.php, was it run from the main Joomla folder, the same folder where the file configuration.php is located?

Yes I did and thank you for the welcome. The phpinfo.php script is in the same folder as the joomla site and it was set at 8.2 until this morning and then I upgraded it to 8.3 in the hosting cpanel after my dashboard showed it as 8.0.3 which it's not been for longer than i can remember.

I've also checked the htaccess file and there's no direct to the lower php.

[Per Yngve Berg]

What is the version string reported by php.info? It may not be properly formatted, so its interpreted as 8.0.3. That is an issue with the Linux Distro used on the server.

[Parkfield]

https://heat-logic.uk/phpinfo.php

[AMurray]

yep, phpinfo says PHP 8.3.2.

Can you provide the Forum Post Assistant Report (https://forumpostassistant.github.io/docs/).

I'm curious as to what it will say as I assume it pulls the PHP version information from the same place the phpinfo does. If the FPA reports conflicting information (i.e only reports PHP 8.0.x) go back to your web host support,with both sets of information, FPA, and PHP info, and ask them which is correct.

[Parkfield]

yep, phpinfo says PHP 8.3.2.

Can you provide the Forum Post Assistant Report (https://forumpostassistant.github.io/docs/).

Im not familiar with that, will take a look into what I need to do with it this evening, I guess it’s a tool I have to install?

[AMurray]

Read the instructions. FPA is linked in the prominent red box at the top of the forum page: "If are serious about wanting help you will use this to help you post".

Upload one file, and run it in your browser. It's not a Joomla extension. It diagnoses your Joomla site and generates a report, in BBCode, that you can post to this forum, it just gives handy technical information the volunteers here can review and advise what the problem is with your site. All we essentially need to know in this case, is why, as per your original question, Joomla is saying "PHP is out of date" where your phpinfo scrip says it is v8.3.2.

[Webdongle]

run the php.info in the /administrator folder. What does it say then?

[brian]

the phpinfo script is exactly the same code that is used internally on your joomla site to determine the version. On some web servers, either due to poor configuration or a php.ini file in the /administrator foler or an .htacces file in the administrator folder then a different version of php will be instructed to load

This is almost certainly your case.
Do as @webdongle states and you will see that your web server (not joomla) is using and therefore reporting a different version of php than the root folder of your hosting