By stuehler
I just deployed a new droplet. By default, it’s set up with PHP 5.5.9. I would like to upgrade that to v.5.6.
How do I do this?
Thanks in advance.
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note that if you are using NGINX and not Apache, this needs to be changed to avoid apache being loaded as part of the install. According to the maintainer of the ppa, the correct approach is to replace
sudo apt-get install php5
with
sudo apt-get install php5 php5-fpm
in the provided sequence of commands
I have followed this guide but seem to have run into problems:
I did the following:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install php5.6
Now what seems to have happened is when I check phpinfo.php it is using 5.5.9 but the cli is using 5.6.24
When I use composer install, It seems all my extensions (intl, mbstring, zip etc…) are not installed. I am a bit lost and would really appreciate any advice :-)
Thanks
Aaron
I followed your instructions but keep getting E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6’
How to fix this?
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