CentOS

petersh, one thing stuck out to me was when you said your main wordpress directory was non-writable, I can only say that mine (httpdocs) is 750, writeable by its owner.

Thank you Steve, much appreciated.

Thank you Steve

Will I need to reboot the machine to have the kernel update take effect?

I checked out the CR repo and I must admit I had no idea there would be so many items available there.

I want to be up to date, but a little unsure of the and where to get it

Thank you Steve

Would you classify this as an important update?
I'm inclined to wait for 7.5 if it is not.

yum check-update gave me this kmod-forcedeth.x86_64 0.64-3.el7_5.elrepo elrepo Received this error when running yum update Error: Package: kmod-forcedeth-0.64-3.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 (elrepo) Requires: kernel(sme_me_mask) = 0x17fbce60 Can someone point me in the correct direction please

Thank you.
I did not mean to question anyone's authority or knowledge.
There is no doubt Plesk are giving me the runaround.

A genuine user seems to think PHP is probably part of a pre-installed image that the hosting provider uses to install new servers.
That would make sense.

Thank you Steve, I will try that

Thank you for your input. I am unable to decide who is correct.
However, a short time ago you said I did not have CentOS, but all the evidence says otherwise

# cat /etc/issue.net
CentOS release 6.9 (Final)

# cat /etc/issue.net
CentOS release 6.9 (Final)

I have checked at Plesk and they say definitively the PHP Version 5.4.45 is issued by the OS Vendor, and that would appear to be CentOS

When I run yum check-update the repositories checked appear to be official CentOS ones