diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/php/composer.mustache b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/php/composer.mustache
index 6a69cead65d..e8c6f3bf10c 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/php/composer.mustache
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/php/composer.mustache
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
         "ext-json": "*",
         "ext-mbstring": "*",
         "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.3",
-        "guzzlehttp/psr7": "^2.0"
+        "guzzlehttp/psr7": "^1.7 || ^2.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "^8.0 || ^9.0",
diff --git a/samples/client/petstore/php/OpenAPIClient-php/composer.json b/samples/client/petstore/php/OpenAPIClient-php/composer.json
index d884b222adb..2318059097f 100644
--- a/samples/client/petstore/php/OpenAPIClient-php/composer.json
+++ b/samples/client/petstore/php/OpenAPIClient-php/composer.json
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
         "ext-json": "*",
         "ext-mbstring": "*",
         "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.3",
-        "guzzlehttp/psr7": "^2.0"
+        "guzzlehttp/psr7": "^1.7 || ^2.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "^8.0 || ^9.0",