running php5.3 in multiple php enviroment fails

Question

I'm working on a Ubtuntu System with PHP versions installed: 5.3.30 / 5.5.9 / 5.6.27 / 7.0.1

I'm able to switch between 5.5, 5.6 and 7.0 easily with a2enmod and a2dismod. But I am not able to run 5.3. I always get 5.5 instead. I followed following guides:

first guide

second guide

Then I tried to enable the 5.3 with a special vhost configuration and also with htaccess Addhandler directive. Nothing works. I think the reason is, that 5.3 has to be called in another way, but I've no idea anymore.

you should say "LoadModule php5_module /path/to/libphp5.so" at your /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load, and not in vhost configuration and/or .htaccess — sotona, Nov 01 '16 at 13:08
that means libphp5.so it points to is for php5.5. are you sure about you libphp5.3 location? — sotona, Nov 01 '16 at 13:15
that's exactly what it should give you. php5.3 module will be named libphp5.so as well. try to compile it with another prefix, and put the full path at /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load — sotona, Nov 01 '16 at 13:21
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/127110/discussion-between-sotona-and-falk). — sotona, Nov 01 '16 at 13:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '16 at 14:22

so guide #3 should look like:

wget http://in1.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.29.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf php-5.3.29.tar.bz2
cd php-5.3.29
./configure --prefix=/path/to/custom/location --with-apxs2 --with-WHATEVER-YOU-NEED --enable-WHATEVER-YOU-NEED
make

after that libphp5.so along with all requested shared libs will be in /path/to/custom/location/lib, which should be reflected in apache2 config.

just a sidenote: PHP 5.3 is too old, buggy and has lots of deprecated stuff so using it will bring a lot of pain

But sometimes you'll need it for old painful applications. :) — Falk, Nov 01 '16 at 14:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 18 '21 at 12:37

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Finally it runs now. There have been several problems.

Needed to install apache2-dev
symlink two files:

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.a /usr/libpcre.a && ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 /usr/libpcre.so

configure with option --with-apxs2

Then I installed it and it works perfect.

Great thanks to sotona for helping me in chat with it.

edited Jan 18 '21 at 12:37

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actually step 2. is a dirty workaround, editing "configure" script would be more elegant – sotona Nov 01 '16 at 14:34

running php5.3 in multiple php enviroment fails

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