Question How to install PHP 5.6.40 on Plesk 18.0.58 and Debian 12.4?

[vaniusg]

Server operating system version

Debian 12.4

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.58

How to install PHP 5.6.40 on Plesk 18.0.58 and Debian 12.4?

I know you should avoid using PHP 5.6 but I just migrated an old server to a new one and there are several old sites that still use PHP 5.6.
How do I install this version simply/automatically?

In the Plesk settings (add features) only PHP 7 and 8 appears.

Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

 

[IgorG]

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/12377508651415

 

[ChristophRo]

I strongly recommend using the PHP Packages of DEB.SURY.ORG when using Debian (or Ubuntu).
It's way easier to install and more secure, as if you compile yourself using the original PHP sources, you'll gonna have very serious security vulnerabilities like CVE-2019-11043 on your hands...

 

[alb_cg]

Hello, I need to install php 5.6.40 fpm because I cannot update a website and I have tried many ways, but I don't know how to follow the steps. Can you help me? I have debian 12

 

[alb_cg]

I have followed this: https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/12377508651415 but I have not achieved anything, step number 2, I do not know what to put as in the example...

 

[alb_cg]

You could add to the list: /etc/aptnano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plesk.list

this:
deb [trusted=true] [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/plesk.gpg] Index of /PHP_5.6.40 bookworm all

Would this work?

 

[ChristophRo]

this should work (for Debian 12):

1) adding deb.sury.org repo

curl -sSLo /tmp/debsuryorg-archive-keyring.deb https://packages.sury.org/debsuryorg-archive-keyring.deb
dpkg -i /tmp/debsuryorg-archive-keyring.deb
sh -c 'echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/deb.sury.org-php.gpg] https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list'

2) installing PHP 5.6 (FPM)

apt update
apt install php5.6-fpm

3) registering PHP 5.6 (FPM) in Plesk

plesk bin php_handler --add -displayname 5.6.40 -path /usr/sbin/php-fpm5.6 -phpini /etc/php/5.6/fpm/php.ini -type fpm -id deb-php56-fpm -clipath /usr/bin/php5.6 -service php5.6-fpm -poold /etc/php/5.6/fpm/pool.d

 

[alb_cg]

Thank you so much!!
Now I get error 500 and 404 on the website.
I'll see the reason. I have everything the same as on the previous server.


Old server:
bcmath curl dba dom enchant fileinfo gd imagick imap intl ioncube_loader_lin_5.6 json ldap mbstring mcrypt mysql mysqli mysqlnd odbc opcache pdo pdo_mysql pdo_odbc pdo_pgsql pdo_sqlite pgsql phar posix pspell redis soap sqlite3 sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tidy xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xsl zip

New server:
bcmath calendar ctype curl dom exif fileinfo ftp gd gettext iconv son mbstring mysql mysqli mysqlnd opcache pdo pdo_mysql phar posix readline shmop simplexml soap sockets sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tokenizer wddx xml xmlreader xmlwriter xsl

Could it be that something is missing to install?

I have tried with apache and nginx and error 500 and 404

 

[alb_cg]

I just tried another migration with the tool:

It tells me several errors:
The following Apache modules are not installed on the destination server: systemd.

The following Apache modules are disabled on the destination server: allowmethods, auth_digest, authn_anon, authn_dbd, authn_dbm, authn_socache, authz_dbd, authz_dbm, authz_groupfile, authz_owner, cache_disk, cache, data, dav_fs, dav_lock, dav, dbd, dumpio, echo, expires, ext_filter, info, lbmethod_bybusyness, lbmethod_byrequests, lbmethod_bytraffic, lbmethod_heartbeat, log_config, logio, lua, mime_magic, mpm_event, passenger, proxy_ajp, proxy_balancer, proxy_connect, proxy_express, proxy_fdpass, proxy_ftp, proxy_scgi, slotmem_plain, slotmem_shm, socache_dbm, socache_memcache, substitute, unixd, version, vhost_alias.

The old server is a plesk obsidian that has been updated over time since version 16, I think...

There are more errors but I think they are extensions.

Could you help me? you save my life

 

[alb_cg]

How could I install everything related to version 5.6.40?
Would it work with that?

 

[alb_cg]

WORKS! It was a file's problem!

 

[alb_cg]

how install mcrypt? i need it

 

[ChristophRo]

apt install php5.6-mcrypt

 

[alb_cg]

thanks so much!

 

[alb_cg]

Hello! on another server, the php 5.6 has not installed all the extensions, many are missing, and that is why now the connection to the database does not work. Since I can install the extensions only for 5.6.40, I have tried everything I have found on the internet, but it doesn't work

I attach the differences between the 2 servers, and when I do the migration it doesn't work

 

[alb_cg]

When you can, please, some help

 

[ChristophRo]

apt update
apt install php5.6-mysql php5.6-gd php5.6-soap php5.6-curl php5.6-mbstring php5.6-xml php5.6-xsl

 

[alb_cg]

thanks, doesn't work

i did this:
curl -sSLo /tmp/debsuryorg-archive-keyring.deb https://packages.sury.org/debsuryorg-archive-keyring.deb
dpkg -i /tmp/debsuryorg-archive-keyring.deb
sh -c 'echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/deb.sury.org-php.gpg] Index of /php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list'
apt update
apt install php5.6-fpm
plesk bin php_handler --add -displayname 5.6.40 -path /usr/sbin/php-fpm5.6 -phpini /etc/php/5.6/fpm/php.ini -type fpm -id deb-php56-fpm -clipath /usr/bin/php5.6 -service php5.6-fpm -poold /etc/php/5.6/fpm/pool.d
apt install php5.6-mcrypt

and now:
apt update
apt install php5.6-mysql php5.6-gd php5.6-soap php5.6-curl php5.6-mbstring php5.6-xml php5.6-xsl


What am I doing wrong?

 

[alb_cg]

When you can, please, some help

 

[Hangover2]

Just install more packages:

apt install  php5.6 php5.6-fpm php5.6-cgi php5.6-mongodb php5.6-mysql php5.6-xsl php5.6-xml php5.6-tidy php5.6-recode php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-mbstring php5.6-intl php5.6-gd php5.6-curl php5.6-json php5.6-imagick php5.6-bcmath php5.6-readline php5.6-sqlite3 php5.6-bz2 php5.6-dba php5.6-enchant php5.6-imap php5.6-ldap php5.6-odbc php5.6-pgsql php5.6-pspell php5.6-zip php5.6-soap php5.6-memcache php5.6-memcached