How to properly compile and connect php 5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04?

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PHP

I have Ubuntu 16.04 with apache 2.4 and php7.0 installed. You need to run the old site written in php5.3. Downloaded php5.3.29 sources from https://secure.php.net/get/php-5.3.29.tar.gz/from/... Executed ./configure
'./configure' '--prefix=/usr/share/php53' '--datadir=/usr/share/php53' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--bindir=/usr/bin /php53' '--includedir=/usr/include/php53' '--sysconfdir=/etc/php53/apache2' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php53/apache2' '--with- config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php53/conf.d' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-curl=shared,/usr' '--with-mcrypt=shared,/usr' '- -enable-cli' '--with-gd' '--with-mysql' '--enable-libxml' '--enable-session' '--enable-xml' '--enable-simplexml' '-- enable-filter' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--with-jpeg-dir' '--with-png-dir' '--with-zlib' '--with-bz2' '--with- curl' '--enable-exif' '--enable-soap' '--with-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--disable-static' '--enable-shared' '--with-gnu-ld' '--enable-mbstring'
. Ran make & make install. There were no errors, but when I started looking for how to connect to Apache, I needed to write the path to libphp5.so in the configs, in the example the file was in the /usr/lib/apache2/modules/ folder, this file was not created for me there. I searched for it in different folders from ./configure, through the find command all over the computer, but did not find it. What did I do wrong? The variant with phpfarm did not work out there are errors at the ./configure stage that I tried to solve, but if you fix one, the other falls or the compiler does not want to do without it.

Answer 1

In the end, I had to install with a PPA, thanks for the advice Ulrich . This option suited me: https://launchpad.net/~sergey-dryabzhinsky/+archiv... . Everything worked!

Answer 2

make install

running is not the best idea. Also, it's not a good idea to use PHP 5.3, because this release is no longer supported.
If you need something, then it's better to raise a virtual machine with a similarly ancient OS. On new versions of Ubuntu, as far as I remember, PHP 5.3 is not even properly built.

Answer 3

I will subscribe to the answer of Nazar Mokrinsky and add that it will be easier to correct / update the site if you put an old puff on a new car.