after upgrading to php7 i am getting an error. and when i tried to restart Apache server its showing this error
apache2: Syntax error on line 140 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load: No such file or directory
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
Could please help me to solve this or downgrade to previous version
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This question was answered by @alexisbmills:
You can solve this by disabling php5 in apache.
$ cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled $ a2dismod php5 $ service apache2 restart
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