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Using PHP 5.2 with cPanel/WHM 11.40, and the new easyapache

by | Feb 23, 2014 | command-line, cPanel, Featured Posts, server administration | 9 comments

PHP 5.2 was removed from EasyApache due to its End of Life status. You can read about that here.

While downgrading to PHP 5.2 is not advised and is really kind of a terrible idea (given that 5.2 has been End of Life for years), cPanel provided some documentation on a way to downgrade PHP to this unsupported and end of life version here.

As outlined in that documentation you should run these commands on your server:

cd /var/cpanel/easy/apache/custom_opt_mods/
wget http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/pub/EasyApache/EasyApacheCustomModules/custom_opt_mod-PHP5217.tar.gz
tar -C /var/cpanel/easy/apache/custom_opt_mods -xzf custom_opt_mod-PHP5217.tar.gz

Then recompile Apache using EasyApache. If you want no php except 5.2 then on the ‘PHP Version’ screen chose ‘none’, and continue. On step 4, the ‘Short Options List’ page you will see ‘PHP 5.2.17 support (no FastCGI)’ listed. Check that box and continue your EasyApache like normal.

9 Comments

  1. Sam uid0
    Sam uid0 on April 14, 2014 at 5:47 am

    really you save my time by this blog.

    I were confused how to downgrade the php using easyapache to php5.2 to support some old software.

    but after reading this blog I found the solution.

    I tried it and its working perfect.

    Thanks a lot.

    Reply
    • benny
      benny on April 14, 2014 at 5:30 pm

      So glad I could help!

      Reply
  2. Klaus
    Klaus on March 1, 2015 at 10:48 pm

    Hi its impossible to unzip this file. Do you have any idea ?

    Reply
    • benny
      benny on March 2, 2015 at 12:14 am

      I was able to extract it without errors. Can you tell me what error you’re seeing?

      [code]river:Downloads benny$ tar -xvf custom_opt_mod-frontpage-20140912.tar.gz
      x Cpanel/
      x Cpanel/Easy/
      x Cpanel/Easy/Apache/
      x Cpanel/Easy/Apache/FpOptMod.pm.tar.gz
      x Cpanel/Easy/Apache/2_2/
      x Cpanel/Easy/Apache/2_2/FpOptMod.pm
      x Cpanel/Easy/Apache/FpOptMod.pm
      x Cpanel/Easy/Apache/2_4/
      x Cpanel/Easy/Apache/2_4/FpOptMod.pm
      river:Downloads benny$ [/code]

      Reply
  3. Klaus
    Klaus on March 2, 2015 at 1:41 am

    Thank you ! I found the way to do it. I downloaded with my Windows PC and uploaded it to my server.
    When I used wget the file was to small and not recognized as a gzip file.
    So it worked for me the downgrade to 5.2.

    have a nice day
    Klaus

    Reply
    • benny
      benny on March 2, 2015 at 2:01 am

      Glad you got it worked out!

      Reply
  4. Madhan Kumar A R
    Madhan Kumar A R on March 17, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    Hello,

    We have followed the steps given above to downgrade php version to 5.2.17 and recompiled apache. Also, we have restarted httpd service. But the PHP version still showing as 5.4.x. Also, we have tried the steps mentioned in the URL “http://syslint.com/syslint/how-to-install-php-5-2-on-cpanelwhm-11-40/”

    But the problem still occurs. Do you have any idea on this? Please reply.

    Reply
    • benny
      benny on March 18, 2015 at 1:31 am

      Hi there! What version of WHM are you using, and were there any errors during your recompile? You can check the logs in /usr/local/cpanel/logs/easy/apache if you aren’t sure.

      Reply

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