Choices in PHP Selector | extensions

rseiler

• October 02, 2017 17:41

We use cPanel (currently 66.0.23) as part of a hosted plan dedicated to running a WordPress site. In testing PHP versions over the last few months (had been on 5.6, trying to get to 7.1 without WordPress problems, which is a whole other story), I noticed a couple things that I can't explain: 1) "Opcache" is unchecked in 7.1 but not in 7.0, 5.6, etc. This is an important setting, so I'm wondering why it's unchecked in 7.1. My only guess is that it's in consideration of certain WordPress plugins that ran afoul of it recently. 2) Are the items selected when using "Use Defaults" changed from time to time? Or is what's behind "Use Defaults" for, say, 7.1, been the same the whole time? In comparing the items checked in the 7.1 section now with those checked when clicking "Use Defaults," I see several differences. We never changed them, and the host has no knowledge of it, though that doesn't mean they're not involved. It seems more likely that cPanel optimizes defaults over time, and it changes with version upgrades. Thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 04, 2017 17:34

  Hello,

  ) "Opcache" is unchecked in 7.1 but not in 7.0, 5.6, etc. This is an important setting, so I'm wondering why it's unchecked in 7.1. My only guess is that it's in consideration of certain WordPress plugins that ran afoul of it recently.

  
  The "All PHP Options + OpCache" profile does not enable PHP 7.1 by default, and thus the PHP 7.1 OPCache extension is also not enabled by default. If you are customizing this profile to enable PHP 7.1, then you'd also need to manually select the php71-php-opcache RPM under "PHP Extensions".

  ) Are the items selected when using "Use Defaults" changed from time to time? Or is what's behind "Use Defaults" for, say, 7.1, been the same the whole time? In comparing the items checked in the 7.1 section now with those checked when clicking "Use Defaults," I see several differences. We never changed them, and the host has no knowledge of it, though that doesn't mean they're not involved. It seems more likely that cPanel optimizes defaults over time, and it changes with version upgrades.

  
  The default profiles can change over time. You can view the change log for the ea-profiles-cpanel RPM to see those changes with a command like this:
  rpm -q --changelog ea-profiles-cpanel-1.0-30.31.1.cpanel.x86_64
  We recommend creating custom profiles if you'd to preserve specific selections in a profile: EasyApache 4 - Create a Profile - EasyApache 4 - cPanel Documentation Thank you.

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  rseiler

  • October 05, 2017 22:21

  OK, understood. I didn't realize that it depended upon that PHP 7.1 wasn't the default yet.

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