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apt-cache search php7.0 --names-only
Will only find packages tagged as php7.0
or compatible with php7.0
, it won’t install, update, or upgrade any packages. You’d have to do that manually. It’s a simplified way of searching packages.
Now if you run:
add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php
Then:
apt-get -y upgrade
Two things can happen, it’ll either upgrade all existing packages that you’ve installed or it’ll throw an error stating that something is compatible. It’s normally best to purge existing packages before adding a repository.
i.e.
apt-get -y purge php*
If there’s anything configuration wise that you need to backup, you need to do that before you run that command. Generally with PHP this isn’t the case, but worth noting.
As far as Ubuntu version, there’s really no need to upgrade from 16.04 to 16.10. Ubuntu 16.04 is the LTS, or Long-Term Support release, and it’s up to date and supported for 5 years.
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When you deploy a server, or multiple servers, you should deploy with use-case in mind. If you’re constantly upgrading to one version or the next, unless it’s security related, you’re creating more work for yourself than needed.
My typical/standard deployment for a single server is Ubuntu 16.04, NGINX Mainline w/ a few modules (requires a source compile), PHP 7.1.x (which is in that repository I mentioned), MariaDB 10.1 or 10.2 (though I don’t recommend 10.2 right now as it’s an RC thus not 100%), and a few other pieces of software – depending on what I need.
You don’t want to deploy Ubuntu 16.04, install a stack, upgrade to 16.10, change the stack, downgrade X, Y, Z, etc constantly unless you’re 100% sure you’re able to troubleshoot the issues that can come along with it.
Hello.
Actually, looking into this today - I’ve determined that there are quite a bit of , significant changes in your 16.04 droplet that vary greatly from the Ubuntu 14 droplet MySQL remote setup.
This include changes to
the location of the mysqld.cnf file,
the presense of the MySQL password file .digitalocean_password,
and that UFW (the firewall) needs to be specifically opened up.
I’m currently working on a (maybe overcomplicated, but friendly) script to do all of this for you, as well as create a remote user in mySQL.
Please reply / advise if you’d like a copy of the script.
Also, after working on this for the past few hours - I’m pretty sure now I could do a tutorial on getting this setup done manually. Let me know if you’d like me to do a write-up/tutorial.