On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:35:28AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Does anyone know where I might be able to find a repo with PHP 5.3 for > stretch? It appears that one of the web apps we depend on is > incompatible with PHP 5.4 or newer and the official stretch php5 > packages are version 5.6.30. >
This is highly inadvisable, unless you are deploying within a completely trusted environment, as PHP 5.3 has been unsupported since August 2014. However, it did receive security backports from the Debian security team until February 2016. That said, if you still wish to proceed, you can download the packages from here: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/php5/5.3.3.1-7+squeeze29/ You may find that the binary packages install directly on stretch, though I suspect that they may not. You are likely to have to download the source package and rebuild it. There is lots of documentation out there on the Debian Wiki on how to locally rebuild a package. You will also want to note what additional package dependencies you are using that are not part of the core PHP package set, as their versions in stretch are likely to be unsuitable for such an old version of PHP. You may also find that you have better luck deploying this on wheezy, as the package versions will not be separated by such a large interval. For example, the binary packages are more likely to be installable directly on wheezy than they will be on stretch. Wheezy will continue to receive LTS security updates until 31st May, 2018. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
