Change the PHP Handler on a cPanel Server in WHM or via Command Line

PHP handler determines how PHP is loaded on the server. PHP handler is what actually loads the PHP libraries so that they can be used for interpretation. Different types of PHP handlers are DSO, suPHP, CGI, & FastCGI.

To change the PHP handler in WHM navigate to:

To list the available PHP handlers via the command line run:

To list what is currently enabled run:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/rebuild_phpconf --current