IT Professionals,
The Enterprise Web Technical Services (WebTech) team will be making changes to the Sitehost PHP offerings in the coming months. Sitehost owners, developers, proxies, and contacts were sent the message below on April 4.
If you have questions, please contact Tier 2 Support (Web Services Support) at sct2@iu.edu.
–IT Community Partnerships on behalf of The Web Services Support & Enterprise Web Technical Services teams
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Subject: Upcoming Sitehost PHP updates
Greetings IU Sitehost owners and contacts,
The Enterprise Web Technical Services (WebTech) team will be making changes to the Sitehost PHP offerings in the coming months. On Thursday, January 19, we added PHP 8.2 as an option for use on Sitehost. On Thursday, July 13, we will be changing the default version from PHP 8.0 to PHP 8.1 and removing PHP 8.0 on Thursday, October 26.
Update schedule:
[Completed] Thursday, January 19: PHP 8.2 available on Sitehost test and production
Thursday, July 13: Sitehost test and production default PHP version updated from 8.0 to 8.1
Thursday, October 26: PHP 8.0 will be removed from Sitehost test and production. Accounts using 8.0 will be moved to PHP 8.1
We encourage you to begin testing your sites and applications for compatibility issues on PHP 8.1 as soon as possible.
You will be able to manage the version of PHP used on each Sitehost account via the WebTech website. While the default version will be updated to PHP 8.1 in the summer, you can currently modify individual accounts to use PHP 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 to allow for testing.
To learn more about how to manage PHP versions for your Sitehost account, see Manage IU Sitehosting accounts.
To learn more about upgrading from PHP 8.0 to 8.1 or 8.1 to 8.2, as well as how to change versions of PHP for SSH, see PHP upgrade for IU Sitehosting.
If you have questions or feedback, please contact Tier 2 Support (Web Services Support) at sct2@iu.edu, or via phone: 812-856-SCT2 (7282) option 4, or 317-278-SCT2 (7282) option 4.
Thank you,
The Web Services Support & Enterprise Web Technical Services teams