Install a not listed version of Php/apache

You might want to look at php selector from cloudlinux

Getting latest PHP in cPanel with PHP Selector

 

Out of curiosity, what works in PHP version 5.3.17 that does not work in 5.3.28?

PHP version 5.2.17 is a more common request. If that is what you meant, check out this post: http://forums.cpanel.net/f442/question-about-easyapache-php-5-2-a-400521.html#post1610381

 

Within EasyApache itself, there is no way to do that. We update the minor versions for security reasons and recommend that our users do the same. It might also be worth noting that PHP version 5.3 will no longer receive security updates as of July this year.

You might have already done these, but the only other suggestions I can think of are:
- Check the support for the various plugins/scripts that are not working, to see if maybe there is a setting or some other mechanism that would allow you to make it cooperate. What you are describing is odd enough that surely someone else must have run into it as well. If it is a bug in the OSCommerce software for example, they might have a solution on their forums.
- Check to see if PHP 5.2 would work with it. You might find this document helpful to see if that is the case: PHP: Migrating from PHP 5.2.x to PHP 5.3.x - Manual You would need root (or root privileges) SSH access to the server to add the PHP 5.2 opt mod.

Sorry I can't be more help, I hope you are able to resolve the issue in a reasonable time period.

 

I am in the same position as Sandman21dan.

I recently had an OS reload, due to a hardware issue.

The only site that I run on this server is a shop using OSCommerce.

Although I understand the security risks involved with PHP 5.3.17 versus PHP 5.4.x (which was installed on the reload), the problem with OSCommerce is this. There are newer versions of OSCommerce which now work with PHP 5.4.x, however if your store was created with an earlier version of OS Commerce and you have added modules (and I have over 10 modules) then some, if not most, of those modules will no longer function when you upgrade your version of OSCommerce.

The only solution then is to either:

a. go back to PHP 5.3.17 (temporarily) so that your store can run properly and in the meantime you can develop on another site, your modules so that they work with PHP5.4.x and the new versions of OSCommerce

or

b. go through thousands of lines of code in your existing heavily modified OSCommerce version, making changes to deprecated functions and such.

I have attempted "b". I am on day 3 and still going.

How can I go to "a" an earlier version of PHP, specifically PHP5.3.17?

I have no other sites on this server, so I'm not concerned about anything breaking. Yes I have root access to the server.

Thanks!

 

I got my OSCommerce back to running by using EasyApache in WHM and recompiling PHP back to 5.3.27

There is not much difference between PHP 5.3.27 and PHP 5.3.17

The problems really come in with PHP 5.4.x as there are quite a few deprecated functions.

I know that PHP5.3.27 is EOL, so I really need to get on the ball with my OS Commerce version on a dev server.

 

I had an older php site to transfer to a server with whm 11.42 (yes, I know it's time to update my scripts!!) For now I needed to downgrade to php 5.2.17... This is not such an easy trick because there's no included support for things like PDO, cURL, tidy... I figured it out with some help from the following links
EasyApache: Raw Opts
Downgrading PHP with the new EasyApache » Linux Shtuff

 

To make sure you have up to date information, I would recommend using the following links that point to our new documentation server:

https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/EA/Raw+Opts
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/EA/Custom+Modules