Downgrade Apache + PHP on Ubuntu 14.04

downgrade.sh

cat <<EOF >> /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main restricted universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main restricted universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
EOF

apt-get update

apt-get purge \
  apache2 \
  apache2-bin \
  apache2-data \
  apache2-mpm-prefork \
  libapache2-mod-php5 \
  dh-php5 \
  php-pear \
  php5 \
  php5-cgi \
  php5-cli \
  php5-common \
  php5-curl \
  php5-dev \
  php5-gd \
  php5-json \
  php5-mcrypt \
  php5-mysql \
  php5-readline \
  pkg-php-tools

apt-get install \
  apache2-mpm-prefork=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.10 \
  apache2-prefork-dev=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.10 \
  apache2.2-bin=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.10 \
  apache2.2-common=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.10 \
  apache2-utils=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.10 \
  libapache2-mod-php5=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.19 \
  php5-common=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.19 \
  php5-cli=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.19 \
  php5-curl=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.19 \
  php5-dev=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.19 \
  php5-gd=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.19 \
  php5-mcrypt=5.3.5-0ubuntu1 \
  php5-mysql=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.19

a2enmod rewrite
a2ensite nea-production.conf
a2dissite 000-default
service apache2 restart

Thanks. But for one who use this: better purge change to remove.

Thanks for this.

The current version of the script no longer works because the package versions of Apache 2.2.22 and PHP 5.3.10 are no longer available. Here are the changes required to bring it back up to date: View the diff here

Updated version: https://gist.github.com/jcowley/15909a25098fc692aeb821b4f12e4265

Thanks for the script.

Update script to work on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
it was specially modified to work on an AWS EC2 instance

Updated version: https://gist.github.com/kuttumiah/eec9726ee77fbe12cd5d38762a3a0ac0