I need to update to the patest version of PHP

[user78513]

What is the name of the domain?

thomas-cornell.com

What is the error number?

N/A

What is the error message?

You cannot update because WordPress 6.7.2 requires PHP version 7.2.24 or higher. You are running version 7.0.17-2+deb.sury.org~xenial+1.

What is the issue you’re encountering

I need instructions or help to update PHP.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Submitted a request to Cloudflare and community. No reply.

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

I don’t know

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

N/A

Screenshot of the error

[user78513]

…latest version of PHP.

[DarkDeviL]

@user78513

I need instructions or help to update PHP.

Contact your hosting provider, and ask them for these instructions.

[user78513]

According to ICANN, Cloudflare is the hosting provider, which is why I’m asking here.
ICANN Lookup thomas-cornell.com

[user78513]

According to ICANN, Cloudflare is the hosting provider, which is why I’m asking here.

[sjr]

That shows that Cloudflare is the registrar.

Your site is hosted on Digital Ocean…

dig +short thomas-cornell.com
104.236.18.174

whois 104.236.18.174

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NetRange:       104.236.0.0 - 104.236.255.255
CIDR:           104.236.0.0/16
NetName:        DIGITALOCEAN-104-236-0-0
NetHandle:      NET-104-236-0-0-1
Parent:         NET104 (NET-104-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Allocation
OriginAS:       AS14061
Organization:   DigitalOcean, LLC (DO-13)
RegDate:        2014-10-28
Updated:        2020-04-03
Comment:        Routing and Peering Policy can be found at https://www.as14061.net
Comment:
Comment:        Please submit abuse reports at https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/#abuse
Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/104.236.0.0

[user78513]

Hmmm… thanks! I’ll give that a try. I don’t understand why updating WordPress is so complex and uncoordinated.