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Step by Step for updagrading PHP 7 from previous version.
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HOWTO-php7.md

HOW TO upgrade to PHP 7 from PHP 5.x

Please notice

  • Take into consideration this may break old legacy applications.
  • Syntax changes may be required for old legacy applications.
  • Therefore do not run this in production environment.
  • Instead you need to consider creating a test enviroment using the below instructions.
  • Ubuntu 14.x does not include PHP7 by default. There is not a fixed date on when Ubuntu will include PHP 7 in the official repository.
  • My webserver of choice is nginx over apache. No problem so far using nginx.
  • If you run into problems please read the output from error.
  • Usually the output contains the fix for the error.

Instructions

  1. sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
  2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php-7.0
  3. sudo apt-get update
  4. sudo apt-get purge php5-fpm
  5. sudo apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-fpm php7.0-mysql
  6. sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
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