Linux Ubuntu PHP Version is different in CLI and in PHPINFO()

Question

I am very new to linux and setting up PHP in the server.

When I try to do a php -v, the php version is returning a version of 7.0, but when I checked the php version in phpinfo(), it is returning 5.5.9.

My question here is that how can I make both versions to be the same, like when I checked in to the phpinfo(), it should also have 7.0 version.

Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Answer 1

First you will need to remove the php by following command. This will remove both i.e php 5 and 7.

sudo apt purge php*

Now install php7.0

sudo apt -y install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0

Then restart Apache:

systemctl restart apache2