how to change cli php ver. on xserver

Summary

To install latest Laravel ver.11 on xserver, I needed to switch php cli ver. to the latest
(at least to cli ver8.2). Here are some tips what I found.

Points

Symbolic Link needs to select the absolute path(/opt/php-8.2.22/bin/php)

Steps

1. Check php path by ls -la, basically it will be on /opt/php...
   rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 9月 3 10:45 php-fcgi8.2 -> /opt/php-8.2.2/bin/php
2. Set that symbolic link ln -s /opt/php-8.2.2/bin/php $HOME/bin/php
3. .vi ~/.bash_profile
4. Change PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin to PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
5. Execute source ~/.bash_profile
6. Run php -v to check new version.
   
7. Run laravel new <ProjectName> to install latest laravel. now it worked.
   

Failure

I set the sybolic link below but it failed because it was not the resource file.

ln -s /usr/bin/php-8.2 $HOME/bin/php

Correct link is

ln -s /opt/php-8.2.22/bin/php $HOME/bin/php

Tips

IF already existed the symbolic link, do below to unlink.

unlink /home/<username>/bin/php