A Guide to Running WordPress with PHP7 on a cPanel Server

If you are running cPanel servers, you may have heard that cPanel now offers PHP7 support. PHP7 has become quite the popular discussion within the WordPress, website optimization Facebook groups and hosting company blogs. And now that WordPress is finally mostly PHP7 compatible, and there’s even a plugin developed to help WordPress authors check their websites for PHP7 compatibility, I felt it was time to build and test my own cPanel with PHP7 setup.
Below is what I learned in setting up PHP7 on a cPanel server for WordPress.
For the cPanel server administrator:
The actual release of PHP7 to cPanel started in early 2016. A quick search in the cPanel forums will return a good number of rather frantic support requests relating to EasyApache version 4 upgrade issues.
EasyApache 4 is a requirement for PHP7 on cPanel servers.
Suffice it to say, the EasyApache 4 upgrade in 2016 was not for the faint of heart.
Until most recently, the process for upgrading cPanel servers to allow for PHP7 has been rather problematic. On a more positive note, the situation has greatly improved since the initial release.
This video from 2015 may help:
2. Ensure all sites on server are running the latest
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14333/a-guide-to-running-wordpress-with-php7-on-a-cpanel-server

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