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Hi,
Could you help me with a client’s website? The site was recently transferred to our dedicated server for hosting, but is currently offline due to never being maintained.
They want the exact same site visually, but for stability reasons, I’ll rebuild using up-to-date Elementor.
How can I host this site locally on an older PHP framework (maybe 7.4?) in order to rebuild it? I think it has to be local since the site contains a theme that no longer receives updates and our hosting partner no longer offers PHP lower than 8.0
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Ubuntu 20.04LTS still provides PHP 7.4 (and will have backported security updates too). Spin that up in a VM, install the requisite packages, copy over the WordPress files, import a MySQL dump, and boom!