This new server with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS cames with PHP 7.0.
The backup that I have from my client has some old WordPress blogs…
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.
I need to downgrade PHP 7.0 to PHP 5.6, at least for now.
Before you procede with the tutorial on the following link, and if you are running a new Ubuntu 16 installation you might get upon the following error while following the tutorial.
root@sd-4XXXX:/home/httpd/html# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found
To install add-apt-repository you will need to run the following command
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
Now the solution How can I downgrade from PHP 7 to PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04? [duplicate].
