Interesting issue…
From my understanding, the www.ads-software.com self-hosted platform is compatible with a number of versions of PHP and should work with both 5.6 and 7. You should know, that PHP 7 will soon become the new standard, and you may likely have to switch up to 7 in the near future.
From what I know, there isn’t anything hard-coded into WordPress to tell it what PHP version to install to. As long as it is within it’s compatibility range it should work.
Curious, if you install WordPress in an entirely different folder on the same server, do you encounter the same issue?
Have you tried removing everything in the mysql database you setup? There could be an entry in the mysql database about the previous PHP version used to install…trying to think about all angles.
I’m sure we can figure this out!
Thanks
Jordan
I do intend to upgrade to PHP 7 once we have finished building the new site. I just need to keep it on PHP 5.6 so that the current old site does not go down until we have finished copying content over and setting everything up. Once I do that, I will wipe out the old Drupal site, transfer WordPress to the root where Drupal is now, and then switch to PHP 7.
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