[CentOS] php 5.6 on CentOS 6

H
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 18:30:07 -0000

I am in the process of moving various apps and data off a CentOS 6 server to a
new server running CentOS 7. As part of the migration process I need to upgrade
an app and corresponding data files which requires php 5.6. I do have php 5.5
(and 5.4) installed since earlier but now tried to install php 5.6 from SCL
which failed.

This is the package I tried:

https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-php56/

but the error message is that there is no package 5.6. Is this correct and what
would the recommended procedure then be since I do need 5.6 for this. Use
Remi's collection or something else? I was hoping SCL would have it since it
is well-tried and easy to sandbox on the computer.

Thank you.

H