[PLUG-TALK] Downgrading "current" PHP or more

[Tomas Kuchta]

Isn't docker part of mainstream distro repositories now days?

I use it on Suse for a while, without doing anything special anymore.

Tomas

On Feb 1, 2018 1:35 PM, "Rigel Hope" <gnu at rigelhope.org> wrote:

> I was going to suggest containers as well, though LXC/LXD requires less in
> the way of outside software installation, and is included on modern ubuntu
> versions by default.
>
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 1:24 PM, <james at bertelson.me> wrote:
>
>> February 1, 2018 1:08 PM, "Dick Steffens" <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
>>
>> > For quite a few years I've been running Apache, PHP and MySQL at home.
>> It's mostly to provide a
>> > development platform for any sites I might deploy somewhere else. It's
>> also where, up through
>> > Ubuntu 14.04, I've kept a copy of a site developed by someone else, but
>> that I maintain. I don't
>> > use my 14.04 machine for day-to-day use anymore, and am slowly
>> migrating stuff from it to my 16.04
>> > machine in anticipation of upgrading to 18.04 in the spring or summer.
>> In the last few days I've
>> > made a copy of all of the stuff on the 14.04's web folder and put it in
>> the equivalent folder on
>> > 16.04. Most stuff works, but not the site I didn't write, but maintain.
>> (Maintain is misleading.
>> > There's stuff I put on and take off, but it's not actually affecting
>> any of the basic programming
>> > of the site.) When I visit that site on the 16.04 machine all I see is
>> an image, but none of the
>> > text that comes from MySQL. I started noodling around and discovered I
>> hadn't installed PHP. So, I
>> > did that, but ended up with PHP 7.0.22. On the 14.04 machine I have PHP
>> 5.5.9. And I still just get
>> > an image without any text from the database.
>> >
>> > I'm assuming there's something different about PHP 7 that's messing
>> things up. Maybe it's how PHP 7
>> > interacts with MySQL, but I don't know for sure. Since I didn't write
>> the main code, and since
>> > that's the code that's running on Stablehost, I don't want to convert
>> it to PHP 7.
>> >
>> > Should I uninstall PHP, and maybe some other stuff (Apache? MySQL) and
>> reinstall with older
>> > versions? Or is there a better way?
>> >
>> > Thanks for whatever clue stick does the job.
>> >
>> > -- Regards,
>> >
>> > Dick Steffens
>>
>> I ran into this issue with a site I host for my inlaws that only works on
>> PHP5. Consider setting up a container for PHP5 applications, and have your
>> front-end webserver reverse proxy back to it? There's pre-built docker
>> images ready to go, like php:5.6-apache
>>
>> https://hub.docker.com/_/php/
>>
>> --
>>   James Bertelson
>>   james at bertelson.me
>>   :wq
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