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I recently upgrade my PHP 5.5 installation to version 5.6. The upgrade completed successfully (I assume) as the php version returned when viewed via php -v is:

5.6.26

However, when I try to spin up my page I get the following error in chrome:

The examplesite.com page isn’t working

examplesite.com is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500

I checked the Apache error logs and found this:

[Tue Oct 04 07:39:58.570181 2016] [:notice] [pid 16890] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 16890)

[Tue Oct 04 07:39:58.570420 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1187] AH00163: Apache/2.4.20 (Ubuntu) mod_fastcgi/mod_fastcgi-SNAP-0910052141 configured -- resuming normal operations

[Tue Oct 04 07:39:58.570434 2016] [core:notice] [pid 1187] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'

[Tue Oct 04 13:54:46.291520 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1187] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down

These same lines appear 3 or 4 times, though not when I access a page, only when I run the following commands:

sudo service apache2 reload
sudo service apache2 restart

I upgraded my PHP installation by following the advice from this post.

I ran the following commands to complete the upgrade:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo service apache2 reload
sudo service apache2 restart

Any advice on what I did wrong?

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So this was unexpected. It turns out my problem was not related to the above Apache logs at all. When I upgraded the PHP version from 5.5 to 5.6, many of my extensions including mysql, curl and mbstring were removed. Reinstalling these extensions using the appropriate commands below:

sudo apt-get install php5.6-mysql
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring
sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5.6-curl

combined with the Apache commands:

sudo service apache2 reload
sudo service apache2 restart

resolved all of my problems.

Apologies for the ignorance on this. I should have checked the extensions first.

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