Nextcloud not working after ugrade to Debian9 and php7.0

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Hello,

I upgraded my server to debian 9, mariadb and php7.0, mainly because my laravel project requires it now. After switching the configuration of apache via ‘a2dismod php5’ and ‘a2enmod php7.0’, I only see a blank page. The console tells me that the server responds with 503. Sadly nothing shows up in the logs of apache or nextcloud itself (even with debug level 0). If I rename config.php and make it therefor inaccessible, the post-install screen shows up. My other pages and projects work just fine so the configuration “should” work for nextcloud. I have not changed any ownership or groups of my nextcloud folder.

Does anyone have an idea what else I could do?

Thanks in advance.

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Are you sure alle required modules are installed and enabled in their 7.0 versions?
I’ve had this very problem after upgrading, and checking for all required modules I found some missing. I stalling them got my NC back up running smoothly.
The required modules can be found here: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html#prerequisites-for-manual-installation

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All checked, installed and enabled.

The only thing which is outstanding (to me) is the conflict information (see below).

Considering dependency mpm_prefork for php7.0:
Considering conflict mpm_event for mpm_prefork:
Considering conflict mpm_worker for mpm_prefork:
Module mpm_prefork already enabled
Considering conflict php5 for php7.0:
Enabling module php7.0.

Maybe it would help to uninstall everything php5 related, but then I can’t go back to a working nextcloud anymore, if I can’t get it fixed.

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Maybe have a look here? What does dpkg -l php* give you?

It should be safe to remove (not purge) all php5* packages, if you want to go back you can install it again. (Note though, that you will need an extra repository like this one because Debian 9 stretch only includes php7.)

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Could you maybe post your Apache2 log file. Maybe there is some error that could shed some light on the issue.

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I will try again tomorrow and let you know. I have a few ideas how to xcheck my installation.

Edit:
I removed all php5 files and tried to install ALL php7 files with apt-get install php7.0-*.

It turned out that php-apcu had conflicts and unmet depencies. I installed php-apcu and nextcloud started working again.

I must have missed that somehow when upgrading the system. Thanks for your help!