Trying to install lsphp56 for an old website on Centos 8

[gilles]

Is it possible to install lsphp56 on Centos 8?

I tried the following:

> rpm -ivh http://rpms.litespeedtech.com/centos/litespeed-repo-1.1-1.el8.noarch.rpm
> yum install lsphp56

and got this error:

DigitalOcean Agent 75 kB/s | 3.3 kB 00:00
No match for argument: lsphp56
Error: Unable to find a match: lsphp56

Has php 5.6 support been removed from Centos 8?

 

[Cold-Egg]

Correct, it's outdated and some old packages are not supported on CentOS8, please consider using lsphp 71~74 instead.

 

[gilles]

Thanks for the reply. I am using lsphp74 on newer websites. The old website uses an inherited savant3 based template system that cannot be easily replaced.

Is lsphp56 available on CentOS 7?

 

[Cold-Egg]

Yes

 

[gilles]

Turns out my old site runs fine with lsphp74 (when I could not get it to work at Cloudways with their PHP 7), so I should be able to move it to my Ubuntu server install.

 

[gilles]

Interestingly, lsphp74 on CentOS7 supports mysql but on Ubuntu, I get the following:

Fatal Error: Mysql is not supported in your PHP, recompile and try again.

My old website uses an outdated and customized version of phplist.

 

[gilles]

I figured it out. I got mysqli.inc from a more recent version of phplist and hacked a bit around to deal with old ereg* functions (using this helpful file).