If you’re about to upgrade your Ubuntu server to 16.04 (Xenial) you might want to take advantage of the new PHP 7.0 which is as fast or more than Facebook’s HHVM, or perhaps during the upgrade process a few things may have broken and perhaps that’s why you’re here
Make sure the following packages are installed.
sudo apt install php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-curl php7.0-fpm php7.0-json php7.0-readline php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml php7.0-mysql
Update your php-fpm web server configuration
I run lighttpd, but you’re more likely running nginx or apache.
If you use php-fpm and you’ve configured your pool to be accessed via unix socket, you will have to update your server configuration from the old socket path: "/var/run/php5-fpm.sock"
to the new one "/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock"
this is how it looks for lighttpd:
fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
(( "socket" => "/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock",
"broken-scriptfilename" => "enable",
"allow-x-send-file" => "enable")))