Akeeba Backup for WordPress

Sunday, 03 December 2023 00:48 CST

Hi,

I use the automatc backup method "alternative crontab" like described here https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/akeeba-solo/automating-your-backup.html#alternative-cron-script.

If I run the Script /usr/bin/php /www/htdocs/w01a15c8/toboit.de/wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/app/cli/backup.php --profile=1 the Backup Job run successfully. But my Hoster force me to run a PHP-CGI Bridge Skript.

<?php
exec("/usr/bin/php /www/htdocs/w01a15c8/toboit.de/wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/app/cli/backup.php --profile=1 2>&1", $out, $result); echo "Returncode: " .$result ."<br>"; echo "Ausgabe des Scripts: " ."<br>"; echo "<pre>"; print_r($out);?>

If you put this url i a browser, you get the following error message:

Returncode: 255
Ausgabe des Scripts:

Array
(
    [0] => PHP Fatal error:  Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 7.4.0". You are running 7.2.34-nmm8. in /www/htdocs/w01a15c8/toboit.de/wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/app/vendor/composer/platform_check.php on line 24
    [1] => 
    [2] => Fatal error: Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 7.4.0". You are running 7.2.34-nmm8. in /www/htdocs/w01a15c8/toboit.de/wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/app/vendor/composer/platform_check.php on line 24
)

But the Wordpress site runs definitly unter PHP 8.1

ls -al /usr/bin/php
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ssh-w01a15c8 w01a15c8 5 Dez 2 18:53 /usr/bin/php -> php81

What can be the problem here?

Regards
Thomas

Edited by [email protected] on 2023-12-03 00:49 CST

Monday, 04 December 2023 01:51 CST

nicholas

Remember, there is “detection” of the PHP version. This the version that PHP itself reports with the PHP_VERSION constant and the phpversion() built-in function. Moreover, the message comes from Composer, the PHP dependency manager used by billions of PHP installations. The likelihood of Composer being so fundamentally broken is exactly zero. Whatever the reason, PHP reports that it's version 7.2.

The fact that your host is asking you to use a PHP script to run a PHP script sounds very suspicious. Is it possible that they execute it in an environment where /usr/bin/php is somehow aliased to PHP 7.2?

Is there a reason they cannot let you run a Bash script such as:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
/usr/bin/php /www/htdocs/w01a15c8/toboit.de/wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/app/cli/backup.php --profile=1 2>&1

instead of a PHP script?

If you definitely need to run a PHP script, add another couple lines:

echo sprintf("PHP_VERSION reports %s\n", PHP_VERSION);
echo sprintf("phpversion() reports %s\n", phpversion());

Which PHP version is reported here?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Tuesday, 05 December 2023 02:03 CST

[email protected]

Hi Nicholas,

OK I will change it to a BASH Script and close this Ticket.

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