How to change default PHP version on cPanel server through command line

In WHM, you can change the default PHP version through Multi-PHP Manager.
However, if you want to change the global default PHP version through command line you can follow below steps :

To display the current default PHP version :

# /usr/local/cpanel/bin/rebuild_phpconf –current

Above command is showing PHP 5.6 as default php version. Now we will change it to PHP 7.0 version with below command

# /usr/local/cpanel/bin/rebuild_phpconf –default=ea-php70