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Kvasir
Kvasir

Reputation: 1261

How to downgrade Wampserver PHP?

I see everywhere for downgrade php on wampserver I just have to do left click wamp> php>version> get more> And dowload the version I want.

But when I do it I arrive on this page and I don't see any link for download an other php version. I only can download a file php5.2.4.isson this page

So fine I dowload it on php.net and I unzip the archive in my folder "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.4"

Next I copy the files wampserver.conf, php.ini and phpForApache.ini from my folder "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12" to the folder "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.4"

And to finish I change in the file php.ini and phpForApache.ini the path :

extension_dir = "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.4"

When I restart wamp I have the 2 versions of php the one I use actualy (5.5.12) and the one I want to instal (5.2.4) but when I choose the 5.2.4 my wamp icon became orange and stay like this I don't understand why.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 12704

Answers (3)

Chinthaka Sandaruwan
Chinthaka Sandaruwan

Reputation: 221

I think best and easiest solution is download older version WAMP ,when installing WAMP you can choose what version of php(default they choose latest version, so attention for that,) do you need, that is work for me. for me need to install to php 7.00 so i tried this wamp 3.2 link here

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Upvotes: 0

Swaleh Matongwa
Swaleh Matongwa

Reputation: 896

Visit Wampserver Activities and download the desired PHP version then run the package to install. Start the wamp server and try again to left-click wamp> PHP> version > select version

Upvotes: 1

Chris Rutherfurd
Chris Rutherfurd

Reputation: 1687

To manually install any version of PHP into WAMP you can follow the following steps...

  1. Download the binaries from php.net
  2. Extract all files into a new folder: C:/wamp/php/php5.4.13 (or whatever the version number is)
  3. Copy the wampserver.conf file from another PHP folder in wamp to the new folder.
  4. Rename php.ini-development file to phpForApache.ini
  5. Restart WampServer by exiting out of Wamp and restarting it)

Note: If you are adding php version 5.6, you need to copy php5apache2_4.dll from another php folder in wamp as well otherwise the wamp server wont start.

Upvotes: 12

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