Apache on Raspbian using older version of PHP

A few weeks ago I used this tutorial to install PHP 7.3 on my Raspbian.

Fast forward to today, I was bashing my head because after 2 hours of messing around, I could have exec() work from PHP CLI but not from the browser.

php -v from CLI correctly reported 7.3, so what gives?

After two hours I also decided to try phpinfo() from the browser, and guess what, it was still using 7.0!

So, after:

sudo a2dismod php7.0
sudo service apache2 restart

phpinfo() correctly reported 7.3 and I had my exec() working as intended.

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