Ubuntu 14.04 - PHP Version Upgraded from 5.5.9 to 5.6 - phpinfo still shows 5.5.9, php -v shows 5.6 - uninstalling 5.5.9??

September 3, 2016 60.2k views
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I tried several ways to upgrade PHP on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine from 5.5.9 to 5.6. It was not easy, at least it worked like described on http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/prereq/php-ubuntu.html.

Typing php -v shows

codePHP 5.6.25-2+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 (cli)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologiescode

looks good so far....

But phpinfo still shows
codePHP Version 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.19code

How can I enforce apache to use PHP 5.6??

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6 Answers
hyamaki September 21, 2016

Hey

Don't know if you guys already resolved the problem, but here is how i did:

sudo a2dismod php5
sudo a2enmod php5.6
sudo service apache2 restart

As described here by michaelpporter
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-upgrade-from-php-v-5-5-9-to-v-5-6

Cheers

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flesh September 27, 2016

a2dismod and a2enmod didn't work. I found the following solution based on the answer on
http://askubuntu.com/questions/776164/ubuntu-14-04-problems-upgrading-php-to-5-6

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge php5-common # remove and purge old PHP 5.x packages
sudo apt-get update # I had to run the update command again
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5.6

now phpinfo() shows
PHP Version 5.6.26-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1

So I would say it works... ;)

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  • flesh September 27, 2016

    Note: uninstalling php5 also removed phpmyadmin --> after reinstalling phpmyadmin the system was a little bit confused, both php-versions - php5 and php5.6 were "alive";
    phpmyadmin did not work - module mbstring was missing.

    Solution: disabling module php5 and enabling php5.6 using the command

    sudo a2dismod php5
sudo a2enmod php5.6
sudo service apache2 restart

    installing mbstring and other modules using

    sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring
sudo apt-get install php5.6-gettext
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mysql

sudo service apache2 restart

    now phpmyadmin is working fine!

    This post was helping me to find the solution:
    http://askubuntu.com/questions/761713/how-can-i-downgrade-from-php-7-to-php-5-6-on-ubuntu-16-04

dippsy September 5, 2016

I have the same problem, any news @flesh ?

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dippsy September 6, 2016

No one else got this problem?

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flesh September 6, 2016

No answer... it seems that no one else has this problem...

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  • dippsy September 6, 2016

    hmm sad. I have made like 5 installs and tried different solutions but still cant come by this...

sayedd21 March 1, 2017

In my case i needed to work with php 7.0 and the following worked:

sudo a2dismod php5;
sudo a2enmod php7.0;
sudo service apache2 restart;

Hope this helps !

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