Setup Digital Ocean - Part 2 Upgrade PHP to 7.3

• Part 1 LAMP
• Part 2 Upgrade PHP to 7.3
• Part 3 Apache Enable Mod Rewrite
• Part 4 Virtual Hosts
• Part 5 Lets Encrypt
• Part 6 MySQL
• Part 7 Remote MySQL
• Part 8 Composer
• Part 9 Laravel

Digital Ocean's LAMP comes with PHP 7.2 let's update this to PHP 7.3

First, install PHP repository from ondrej/php 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Then update and upgrade 

sudo apt update

Now install PHP modules

sudo apt-get install php7.3 libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3-cli php7.3-mysql php7.3-gd php7.3-imagick php7.3-recode php7.3-tidy php7.3-xmlrpc

Disable 7.2

systemctl restart apache2

Enable 7.3

sudo a2enmod php7.3

Restart the server

systemctl restart apache2