Thank you for the responses. I found a list of old Ubuntu distros and
have made good progress moving between distros as required specs
change with each version of Moodle. I have managed to upgrade from
version 1.8.4 to 3.1.0 so far.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 5:50 PM Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote:
>
> There is an active repository for a lot of old linux at;
>
> http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/
>
> If you browse the repository you can find pages like this for the
> "opensuse" era;
>
> http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/
>
> Or this for the "suse" era;
>
> http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/discontinued/i386/
>
> There are also Red Hat, etc, etc directories.
>
> So basically, yes there are some very good old repositories around.
>
>
>
> Chad Walstrom wrote:
> > Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> writes:
> >> I was asked to recover and upgrade an old version of Moodle that
> >> requires PHP version 4.3.x. Is there a version of Ubuntu or some other
> >> distro that can support that PHP version and has an active repository
> >> so I can also install Apache and MySQL, as well?
> >
> >
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