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I am attempting to install an older Joomla site (2016/3.0) onto a local server (Xampp). I tried using Kickstart and it said the curly braces were no longer supported. Next, I found an older version of Kickstart (7.0.0) and tried that time, the error was "Uncaught error: Undefined constant "E_NONE" in C:\xampp\htdocs....\kickstart.php:62 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in ...kickstart.php on line 62"

I'm not sure what to try next. This is a rather large site and will save substantial time if I can get it installed on a local server. Thanks for any help.

Use wamp you can change the php version on the fly

With XAMPP you have to choose the version that is equivalent of its included PHP version (PHP 8 won't work on early Joomla 3.x).

The earliest version of Joomla to use PHP 7 was Joomla 3.5, so 3.0.x won't run on PHP 7.

You probably need XAMMP v 5.6.40 (which matches PHP 5.6.40) which can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/ ... 20Windows/

As mentioned, with WAMPservver, you can install modules, (PHP versions) as many as you need I think, from PHP 5.6.x upwards. Very flexible for testing.