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This is a tutorial for PHP 8.5 installation in CWP PHP Switcher I've switched to direct compiler environment variables that pass flags straight to gcc, g++, and ld - eliminating pkg-config dependency that was failing across servers. Old Method (Unstable): pkg-config → generates flags → gcc/g++/ld ↓ Breaks when pkg-config .pc files missing/corrupted/version mismatchNew Method (Stable): CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS → gcc/g++/ld directly ↓ No pkg-config intermediary = consistent builds everywhereInstall dependencies : # For el9 only : dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb # run these for el8 and el9 dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" dnf install glibc-devel elfutils-libelf-devel dnf install git make gcc gcc-c++ binutils glibc-devel autoconf libtool bison re2c automake libxml2-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel libcurl-devel libpng-devel libavif-devel libwebp-devel libjpeg-devel libXpm-devel freetype-devel gmp-devel libicu-devel openldap-devel oniguruma-devel libargon2-devel libtidy-devel libxslt-devel Build PHP 8.5 switcher : rm -rf /usr/local/php-85 mkdir -p /usr/local/php-85 cd /usr/local/php-85 wget http://php.net/distributions/php-8.5.0.tar.gz tar zxvf php-8.5.0.tar.gz cd php-8.5.0 ./configure --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php --enable-cgi --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/php/php.d --with-zlib=/usr --enable-mbstring --with-zip --enable-bcmath --enable-pcntl --enable-ftp --enable-exif --enable-calendar --enable-sysvmsg --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --with-tidy --with-curl --with-iconv --with-gmp --enable-gd --with-avif --with-jpeg --with-freetype --enable-gd-jis-conv --with-webp --with-xpm --with-openssl --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd --with-gettext=/usr --with-bz2=/usr --with-mysqli --enable-soap --enable-phar --with-xsl --enable-posix --enable-sockets --with-external-pcre --with-libdir=lib64 --with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --enable-intl --with-password-argon2 --enable-litespeed --with-ldap=/usr --with-ldap-sasl=/usr export CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIE -DPIC" export CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fPIE -DPIC" export LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,--as-needed" make -j$(nproc) make installAfter that, PHP 8.5 will be installed. You can check via the php -v command : [root@alma]# php -v PHP 8.5.0 (cli) (built: Dec 3 2025 01:59:52) (NTS) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v4.5.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v8.5.0, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

This is a tutorial for PHP 8.4 installation in CWP PHP Switcher I've switched to direct compiler environment variables that pass flags straight to gcc, g++, and ld - eliminating pkg-config dependency that was failing across servers. Old Method (Unstable): pkg-config → generates flags → gcc/g++/ld ↓ Breaks when pkg-config .pc files missing/corrupted/version mismatchNew Method (Stable): CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS → gcc/g++/ld directly ↓ No pkg-config intermediary = consistent builds everywhereInstall dependencies : # For el9 only : dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb # run these for el8 and el9 dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" dnf install glibc-devel elfutils-libelf-devel dnf install git make gcc gcc-c++ binutils glibc-devel autoconf libtool bison re2c automake libxml2-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel libcurl-devel libpng-devel libavif-devel libwebp-devel libjpeg-devel libXpm-devel freetype-devel gmp-devel libicu-devel openldap-devel oniguruma-devel libargon2-devel libtidy-devel libxslt-devel Build PHP 8.4 switcher : rm -rf /usr/local/php-84 mkdir -p /usr/local/php-84 cd /usr/local/php-84 wget http://php.net/distributions/php-8.4.15.tar.gz tar zxvf php-8.4.15.tar.gz cd php-8.4.15 ./configure --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php --enable-cgi --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/php/php.d --with-zlib=/usr --enable-mbstring --with-zip --enable-bcmath --enable-pcntl --enable-ftp --enable-exif --enable-calendar --enable-sysvmsg --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --with-tidy --with-curl --with-iconv --with-gmp --enable-gd --with-avif --with-jpeg --with-freetype --enable-gd-jis-conv --with-webp --with-xpm --with-openssl --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd --with-gettext=/usr --with-bz2=/usr --with-mysqli --enable-soap --enable-phar --with-xsl --enable-posix --enable-sockets --with-external-pcre --with-libdir=lib64 --with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --enable-intl --with-password-argon2 --enable-litespeed --with-ldap=/usr --with-ldap-sasl=/usr export CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIE -DPIC" export CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fPIE -DPIC" export LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,--as-needed" make -j$(nproc) make installAfter that, PHP 8.4 will be installed. You can check via the php -v command : [root@alma]# php -v PHP 8.4.15 (cli) (built: Dec 3 2025 01:45:34) (NTS) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v4.4.15, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies

Hi if you send me a test VPS for Alma 9 I'll test and publish the post

will create the tutorial soon

Hi did you activated the disk quota for the cwp?

Are you talking about PHP 8.4?

This should be fixed via the update

some meial functions are not working only

Imunify AV is not fully compatible with CWP yet, You can ask immunity to check the compatibility

Probably you tried many things before which can cause the issues, check the logs or create seperate topic

Try rpm -e --nodeps mysql-common-8.0.41-1.module_el8.10.0+3965+b415b607.x86_64

this is not same command here the alpha case is sensitive

Hi, run the MySQL secure installation and remove the test db mysql_secure_instalaltionYou may need the root password for MySQL to proceed, located in /root/.my.cnf

You need to remove mariadb server rpm dnf module disable mariadb -y rpm -e --nodeps mariadb-server If you get any other conflicting package use the same rpm remove commands and replace the mariadb-server with the conflicting package name. After that use same procedure to update mariadb