Debian 7.11 (wheezy) and PHP 7.0

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I have a Debian 7.11 (wheezy) installed as a development server and I attempted an upgrade from PHP 5 to 7. I got as far as php -v returning 7.2.2 but the last obstacle after a long installation process was that I am unable to enable PHP 7 in Apache2.

I have attempted to install libapache2-mod-php7.0 via apt-get and this returns an error:

E: Unable to locate package libapache2-mod-php7.0
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libapache2-mod-php7.0'

I even attempted downloading the .deb file from packages.debian.org but this returns an error:

dpkg-deb: error: archive 'libapache2-mod-php7.0_7.0.28-1_amd64.deb' contains 
not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php7.0_7.0.28-1_amd64.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libapache2-mod-php7.0_7.0.28-1_amd64.deb

I basically can't run a2enmod php7 for Apache to enable PHP. What can I do here?

manpreet 2 years ago

I highly recommend upgrading to Debian 9 if you can, it includes PHP 7 as standard.