Installing PHP5.3 for Ubuntu 20.4/22.4 for LAMP

Question

I'm trying to install PHP5.3 on an Ubuntu server, I've tried the following:

• Installing PHP 5.3 in Ubuntu 14.04 (Make has errors and then stops apache server)
• https://gist.github.com/szihaj/b1c2e6e14eb4dd939f57e0eb46a47ab1 (ppa not compatible with this version of Ubuntu I get the following error https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Rz2zo0m88rrxqrfn)

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

For Ubuntu 20.04, you can install PHP 5.3 from ppa:sergey-dryabzhinsky/php53:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sergey-dryabzhinsky/php53
sudo apt update
sudo apt install php5

If you want to use it with Apache server you will also need this:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php53
sudo a2enmod php53
sudo service apache2 restart

Available for modules:

apt-cache search php53