Downgrade PHP from 7.1 to 7.0 on digitalocean

I'm not a server/Linux guy but I'm assuming changing PHP version up or down would be the same as you simply pick which version you would like to replace the earlier version with..

With that said, maybe this will be of help to you..

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-upgrade-to-php-7-on-ubuntu-14-04

Ok, So id did screw up. nginx is scrambled after installing 7.0; for some reason all apps show Debian apache default page now.

I am deploying new droplet now. :(

Note to self: Make a droplet snapshot before u mess up.

@dascorp if you have a real production site make another note, lag 2 versions behind. Most enterprise including State Governments don't update to the latest thing. They lag back several months to ensure all is ok.

noted. The production server still runs PHP5.6 and L5.2. This issue is with staging server, unfortunately created it with PHP7.1 as I was not aware of PDF issue;

I managed to find 2months old snapshot on DO, so I recovered the server without provisioning new one.

It would be nice to have forge configured to run 3 versions of PHP and each site to select which one to use.

if somebody has tutorial how to do this, please give us a hint.

@dascorp glad you got it worked out, for the most part anyway.

Do you know any forge recipies for the harmless downgrade of php to 7.0?

SSH into the server and check nginx config that the php fpm version is changed back to 7.0

@ejdelmonico i have 7.1 server provisioned my nginx config for app looks like

location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

i think i need to install 7.0 first but when i did this last time all went wrong

Yes you do. Then check it again.