diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index d8417ee343..e69de29bb2 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "distributions"]
-	path = distributions
-	url = git@github.com:php/web-php-distributions.git
diff --git a/distributions b/distributions
deleted file mode 160000
index 96bb841db4..0000000000
--- a/distributions
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 96bb841db4d7ab701b2229d4abc25fa614f98015