Hi monu2jan. Ubuntu 16.04 comes with PHP7, so installing PHP5 takes some extra steps. If you were using a tutorial written for 14.04, it may not have been appropriate for the droplet you’ve created.

Is PHP5 a requirement, or can you work with 7?

I recommend creating a Droplet using the “One-click apps” option. There are LAMP droplets available there for 14.04 (PHP5) and 16.04 (PHP7). You can get started creating a One-click app here.

Hope this helps!

dl

Hi @monu2jan ,

As of Ubuntu 16.04, PHP7 is default and recommended version. If you want to switch to PHP7 make sure that application is compatible with it (also it is recommended to test it before taking in production).

Anyways to install PHP5 you need to ad repository and install it.

1. Add PHP repository

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
   

2. Refresh APT cache with

   sudo apt-get update
   

   After it completes successfully, PHP5 is ready to be installed:

   sudo apt-get install php5.6
   

   Please make sure when you want to install modules, specify it with php5.6.
   For example:

   sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring
   sudo apt-get install php5.6-mcrypt
   

   If you go with php instead of php5.6 it will try to install PHP7 version of module.
   Note: Make sure you delete older/newer version before installation

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