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Roby Firnando Yusuf
Asked: 2018-12-18 01:02:12 +0800 CST

PHP7.1 has been installed but php -v still show PHP5.6

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I've been installed PHP7.1 and my on my laptop has 2 php versions there are PHP 5.6 and PHP7.1 , i tried a2dismod php5.6 and a2enmod php7.1 then i restarted .. and i tried php -v still show me old version , anyone have solution about this ?

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php 16.04

2 Answers

  1. That version has to do with the cli (command-line interpreter) version which you might not have installed so install it:

    sudo apt install php7.1-cli

    then check that version again. Noe remove the other version:

    sudo apt remove php5.6-cli

    if that is what it's called, then restart you server.

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  2. a2dismod is a command that disables php support for apache service. On the other hand, php-cli package is only meant to work for console (in terminal). Unless you uninstall php-cli package (or php7.1-cli for 7.1 version) you will be able to work with php in terminal (even it won't work on your webservice at the time)

    If you want to replace php 5.6 with 7.1 in the cli do this:

    sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/php
ln -s /usr/bin/php7.1 /usr/bin/php

    this should replace your current cli version with 7.1 and php -v should show your desired version

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