PHP: Composer uses PHP version older than the used version (on shared hosting)-CodePudding

I'm trying to run composer commands from the SSH terminal but I get this

Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 7.3.33". You are running 7.1.33.

when I run php -v I get PHP 7.3.33 (cli) and when I run phpinfo() in Laravel (not the terminal) I get PHP Version 7.3.33

In composer.json:

"require": {
    "php": "^7.3.33",

In .htaccess

<IfModule mime_module>
  AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php73 .php .php7 .phtml
</IfModule>

Why does this happen and how can I fix it?

CodePudding user response：

Note that .htaccess only affects the Apache configuration. When accessing the server via SSH the file is completely ignored/useless.

Some providers install multiple versions of PHP, making it available by typing php7.3, and the php is a simple alias to the current default version. Probably the composer is set up in a way to use a different version of the default (not sure how/why) while your ssh session is using another.

Since your php -v is reporting the desired version. I would suggest downloading composer.phar and running it locally via php composer.phar ... instead of relying on the currently systemwide installed composer.