thank you for your help @sturtz_nate
I am back, what happens if you remove php? apt remove php
?
I know why apache2 is not giving error in the log file.
@sturtz_nate I removed php using the command you gave. php -v still shows php 7.0.33 installed. as far as i can tell, my nextcloud is unchanged
ok, you are using snap?
yes i am using snap
ok, I do not think that snap uses apache2, I don’t know