You should have noticed some of your PHP webapps are not working after upgrading php to version 7. This is due to the fact that php 7 has removed a lot of previous deprecated php libraries. In order to install and use PHP 5 you this tutorial.
1. Re-Install PHP 5.6
1. Re-Install PHP 5.6
Actually is not required to remove
php7.0
, you can install php5.6 together ( also because you will have dependency problem with phpmyadmin
package that required php7.0)
Assuming
libapache2-mod-php
is a suitable way to enable PHP in Apache for you, you can proceed in this way:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php7.0 php5.6 php5.6-mysql php-gettext php5.6-mbstring php-xdebug libapache2-mod-php5.6 libapache2-mod-php7.0
2. Switch PHP version:
- From php5.6 to php7.0 :
- Apache:
sudo a2dismod php5.6 ; sudo a2enmod php7.0 ; sudo service apache2 restart
- CLI:
sudo ln -sfn /usr/bin/php7.0 /etc/alternatives/php
- Apache:
- from php7.0 to php5.6:
- Apache:
sudo a2dismod php7.0 ; sudo a2enmod php5.6 ; sudo service apache2 restart
- CLI:
sudo ln -sfn /usr/bin/php5.6 /etc/alternatives/php
Now you can switch in between php versions as you like.
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