On HestiaCP v1.5.3 (Debian 11.2), I setup a new user and web domain, then ask Quick Install to install WordPress. The WordPress files are installed and the database is created without WordPress tables.
Is there another step involved in setting up the WordPress tables?
There is currently a bug when adding an new domain / updating the template to “default”
php -r “echo (float)phpversion();” returns “8” instead 8.0 and php version 8 doesn’t exist.
WordPress 5.8 (current stable release) doesn’t support PHP 8.1. However, the upcoming WordPress 5.9 version (Jan 25, 2022) will.
see: PHP 8.1 is Now Available for All Environments
Made sure it didn’t work. Monday / Tuesday we release a new version.
Yes, one definitely can’t move too quickly with Wordpress PHP versions. Even when a version of WP is released which can use a certain PHP version, chances are it will be a while before all your plugins will work on it too.