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History: Virtualmin Tiki Manager PHP 7.4 to 8.1

Preview of version: 8

Virtualmin Tiki Manager PHP 7.4 to 8.1

Context: in May 2023, Tiki trunk/master changed requirements from PHP 7.4 to 8.1. So if you have some Tiki instances running trunk/master with Virtualmin Tiki Manager, they will not upgrade automatically.

1.1. Pick Virtualmin Virtual Server

  • Server configuration -> PHP Options
    • PHP script execution mode: FPM
    • PHP service maximum sub-processes: Default
    • Maximum PHP script run time: 30 seconds
    • PHP version: 8.1.x
    • PHP error log file: Default log file /home/username/logs/php_log
  • Services -> PHP-FPM Configuration
    • Error Logging
      • Display error messages: Yes
      • Error types to display: All errors and warnings

1.2. SSH in as root

  • cd /opt/tiki-manager/app
  • php tiki-manager instance:edit
  • switch PHP executable path from /usr/bin/php7.4 to /usr/bin/php8.1


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To do: explore if php tiki-manager instance:detect could be improved to handle this

1.3. Tiki manager update

  • Via GUI or CLI, tiki manager update


As of 2023-05-20, you may get an error "Updating Tiki Packages... may take a while ERROR Failed to update Tiki Packages. Check /opt/tiki-manager/app/logs/trim.output for more details" This will be solved shortly.

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