Downgrade Apache + PHP on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

downgrade.sh

cat <<EOF >> /etc/apt/sources.list
deb [trusted=yes] http://eu-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe
deb [trusted=yes] http://eu-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe
deb [allow-insecure=yes] 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 \
  apache2-common \
  apache2-doc \
  apache2-utils \
  apache2-prefork-dev \
  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=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.11 \
  apache2-prefork-dev=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.11 \
  apache2.2-bin=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.11 \
  apache2.2-common=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.11 \
  apache2-utils=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.11 \
  apache2=2.2.22-1ubuntu1.11 \
  libapache2-mod-php5=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26 \
  php5=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26 \
  php5-common=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26 \
  php5-cli=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26 \
  php5-curl=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26 \
  php5-dev=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26 \
  php5-gd=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26 \
  php5-mcrypt=5.3.5-0ubuntu1 \
  php5-mysql=5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26

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

Update script to work on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

it was specially modified to work on an AWS EC2 instance