Setting up a PHP 5.2 server

Question

I am not sure if this is the proper place for this, so I apologize if I should ask it elsewhere.

I am attempting to setup an old Drupal 5 site just for the purpose of being able to view it short term. To do this I need to install PHP 5.2 on the web server (Ubuntu 10.04). Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? I can't find a simple way to install old versions of PHP.

Answer 1

This is quite a problem, as you probably know PHP-5.2 is been dead for some time now, so you can't just apt-get install php . The best way to go is to compile it yourself.

You can grab a copy from the github PHP repository , and the follow the installation instructions (under ubuntu you'll need first to install the meta package build-essential to get all the tools needed to compile it).

Be aware that you should not run php5.2 in production by now!

PS: You'll probably have a better answer if you try superuser or serverfault.