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How to downgrade PHP7 to PHP5.x ?

Posted on January 30, 2016

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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This work fine for me

From php5.6 to php7.0 : Apache: sudo a2dismod php5.6 ; sudo a2enmod php7.0 ; sudo service apache2 restart CLI: 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

There’s any complication if i change the php version? my databases will remain?

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

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