Ubuntu Apache: "Module php7 does not exist"

Question

I am trying to upgrade PHP 5.5.9 to PHP 7 on my DigitalOcean Ubuntu 14.04 machine.

I've read many tutorials and articles how to do it, but each of them misses something. For example, somewhere they say you must sudo a2dismod php5 then sudo a2enmod php7. The problem is that I always get this message

$ sudo a2enmod php7
ERROR: Module php7 does not exist!

Does someone one how to resolve this problem, please?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

Finally, thanks to the comment of Ed de Almeida, I found the solution.

I had to install an additional package:

$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.0

Now I could run sudo a2enmod php7.0.

Comments

[Ed de Almeida]

Good to know that I helped a bit. Congratulations and good development!

[Suhas.s]

Thanks Its working

[otocan]

Thank you, helped me out. I wonder why this is not included in the php7 package.

[ZFNerd]

thanks, should mark as correct answer

[B.lakshman]

Thanks, its working

[giuseppe]

to me this says " Impossible to find package libapache2-mod-php7.0"

[piepi]

I am not able to get this to work : E: Package 'libapache2-mod-php7.0' has no installation candidate

[Synetech]

I already had libapache2-mod-php7.0 installed, but a2enmod complained that ERROR: Module php7.0 does not exist! Removing the mod package and reinstalling fixed the problem.

[Kapil Verma]

Please run following command : sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.0 Basically that is to change terminal (cli) version