Is it possible to force a lower PHP version in Google's Compute Engine in GCP?
I am working on migrating a Joomla website over to GCP. Everything is migrated to GCP, however, the original site is working under a lower PHP version 5.7 (I forced it running at this low version PHP through .htaccess). I see the PHP version on GCP (Bitnami Joomla) is 7.3.12.
I tried to do the PHP lower version through .htaccess in GCP.
I created the .htaccess in Joomla location /opt/bitnami/apps/joomla/htdocs
The .htaccess is as below:
When I opened the site, I received a theme related error, if I go to administrator, I received the following error:
Clicking on the Return to Control Panel doesn't change the error.
I will reach out to the theme vendor and Joomla community and see if there is a way to bypass the theme error and log into the admin to do some upgrades, but if you know there is a way in GCP to force running a lower (or specify) PHP version, it would really help the troubleshooting.
Thank you very much in advance.
Thanks for everyone's suggestions, I decided I should really upgrade my Joomla site, maybe rebuild it, and then migrate it to GCP - this would be a lengthy process, and definitely would incur some cost due to the theme I used was a commercial theme from Rocket.