With recent versions of Apache, it has become a lot easier to use PHP-FPM, and with Ubuntu 16.04 being packaged with PHP 7 when it is released later this month, I thought it was worth a quick how to use all these technologies together.
Firstly, you will need to install the required applications, which this one simple command:
sudo apt install apache2 php
That’s not too different to how you would have installed it in previous versions of Ubuntu, and it will default to Php 7.
Now that they’re installed, there is a small amount of configuration needed. Run these simple commands in this order:
sudo a2dismod mpm_prefork php7.0 sudo a2enmod mpm_event proxy_fcgi sudo a2enconf php7.0-fpm sudo systemctl restart apache2
Now that should be everything complete.