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phpubuntu-14.04

Change my PHP version on my Ubuntu server

Currently using PHP version is 5.6.36 and I need to go down on version 5.3.29.

Running phpinfo()on my script giving me this

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While on my cli

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For what I understand, I'm still using the version 5.6.36.

Anyway to point the version to different installed php?

Solution

  • Your CLI is referenced to PHP-CLI binaries. But Apache uses its internal module (libapache2-mod-php) to process PHP scripts. You have to downgrade the version of libapache2-mod-php.

    Try with below commands

    # Install the old version of libapache-php
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

# Disable PHP 5.6 module
sudo a2dismod php5.6

# Enable php 5.3 module
sudo a2enmod php5

# Restart Apache
sudo service apache2 restart