Upgrade from 10.0.6 to 11 won't detect PHP 7

🚧 Installation
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I just migrated an old Owncloud 9.1.7 to Nextcloud 10.0.6.

Seems to work fine, so afterwards i upgraded PHP to: PHP 7.0.27-1+ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) (built: Jan 11 2018 23:19:41) ( NTS ) with the instructions found here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-convert-an-owncloud-installation-to-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-14-04

However I still get an error message in the admin panel: “You are running PHP 5.5. To allow you to upgrade to Nextcloud 11 and higher you need to run at least PHP 5.6…”

I have restarted the apache server, tried changing the release channel back and forth, and restarted the whole server but no luck.
I did not set up this installation originally, so I don’t know too much about how the config, but AFAIK it’s a very standard Owncloud 9.1 setup (before the migration).

Any ideas?

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Are you sure you did a2dismod php5 from the instructions you linked to? Maybe first try to be sure that the new php is actually used. Can you place a separate test.php file with <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it into your web-folder to show which php version you are using?

Have a look which php-versions you have installed and where they are used, if you are running Debian or Ubuntu, these commands will give you more information:

dpkg -l php*
ls -al /etc/alternatives/php*
which php-cgi
which php

Also, the way to choose the PHP version depends on whether you use an apache module, (f)cgi or php-fpm.