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snoodler
Ah okay, Apache2. Did you install+configure php7.3-fpm manually? Since on default install Apache2 uses its default internal PHP handler (mod-php), hence php7.3-fpm is not required.

So you could clean up things and assure the Apache2 PHP module being active:

apt install libapache2-mod-php7.3
apt purge php7.3-fpm
a2enmod mpm_prefork php7.3
systemctl restart apache2