Upgrading Ubuntu Release Broke Website Fix

If installing the latest Ubuntu release has caused your website to quit working, this may be the fix. Most new Ubuntu releases come bundled with a newer PHP release. After an Ubuntu release upgrade, the old and no-longer-relevant PHP version is likely still referenced by Apache. Within this tutorial, I explain the steps that I took to enable Apache to function with the newer PHP version that came bundled with the new Ubuntu release. I hope that this video helps because an Ubuntu upgrade bricking a website is never a fun thing. #Ubuntu #Linux #PHP #Howto

Create symbolic links to new PHP version:
***Commands performed within /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ln -s ../mods-available/php8.3.load php8.3.load
ln -s ../mods-available/php8.3.conf php8.3.conf

Disable Old PHP Mod:
a2dismod php8.1