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Install an older version of PHP

May 13, 2015   |   1 minute read.

So I had to back up and reinstall website that uses PHP 5.3.X and is overall deprecated. I am using Ubuntu and I wanted to install PHP 5.3.28 so this what I did:

1) Install phpbrew:

Read carefully the requirements. In my case I had to install a bunch of stuff:
https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew/wiki/Requirement

2) Install your version of php:

phpbrew install 5.3.28 +apxs2

Some versions are not available anymore and I don’t know the reason, sorry. You may also find that you do not have apxs2 and you won’t find it under your repository list. So try this:

apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev

3) After your successful installation under /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.load you should be able to see this:

LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.3.28.so

Also if you do a phpinfo(); you should the version you are after. Remember that what php cli shows you is not the same as what you apache2 uses.