Ubuntu Server Installing PHP 7 WITHOUT Apache

Question

I'm trying to get my server re-setup as a Lemp stack

The issue I am now running into is installing PHP 7 without Apache, since nGinx will be my webserver.

So, I've added ppa:ondrej/php. ran apt-get update, and tried to install just php7.0 via apt-get install php7.0

--nodeps flag does not work, as I am on Ubuntu 15.10

And I am presented with:

The following extra packages will be installed:   apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapache2-mod-php7.0 libapr1   libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.1-0 libqdbm14   php-common php-readline php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-json   php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline Suggested packages:   apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine apache2-suexec-custom php-pear   php-user-cache The following NEW packages will be installed:   apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapache2-mod-php7.0 libapr1   libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.1-0 libqdbm14   php php-common php-readline php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-json   php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline 

I do not want apache anywhere near my server, so how can I install php7 without it? Short of compiling from source (as this makes it difficult at best to keep it updated)

Answer 1

If you just request php7.0, it'll install Apache as default. Do apt-get install php7.0-fpm and it'll install as FPM instead, leaving something like nginx up to you.