Question
How to downgrade PHP7 to PHP5.x ?
- Posted on January 30, 2016
- LAMP StackPHPApacheUbuntu
Asked by sg61e938d7451
I upgrade my PHP in LAMP Ubuntu 14 server to PHP 7 following the tutorial - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-upgrade-to-php-7-on-ubuntu-14-04
However after testing the application for 2 days, I wanted to downgrade it back to the original php version because of many unexpected errors in composer packages.
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Would be helpful if anyone can share the details.
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From php5.6 to php7.0: Apache: sudo a2dismod php5.6 ; sudo a2enmod php7.0 ; sudo service apache2 restart CLI: sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.0 From php7.0 to php5.6: Apache: sudo a2dismod php7.0 ; sudo a2enmod php5.6 ; sudo service apache2 restart CLI: sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php5.6
This worked for me:
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge php7.0*
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ondrej/php
back php7 nginx conf
edit nginx conf to run php5: change: fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock to: fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
sudo apt-get update
install php5: sudo apt-get install php5-fpm php5-mysql
There’s any complication if i change the php version? my databases will remain?