@Sandeep B.

Since CWP is now 2 versions behind the current versions, was wondering if you could post how to manually update PHP and PHP-FPM?

Along with the options for ionCube, LDAP, and mailparse.

Thanks

Edited July 25Jul 25 by Starburst

Are you talking about PHP 8.4?

Either PHP 8.3 or 8.4

Another 8.3 (8.3.24) release just came out on 2025-07-31, along with 8.4.11

So now CWP is 3 version behind on 8.3, 2 versions behind on 8.2 and 8.1, and it doesn't even have 8.4.x

If you could post the build string here, or update the guide for 8.3 to include ionCube, LDAP, and mailparse that would be great, and I could go modify all the servers.

Is it just as simple as adding --enable-ldap --enable-mailparse ?

Thanks

Edited August 1Aug 1 by Starburst
I can't tyep. lol

It would make life allot easier if PHP was updated in CWP. :/

CWP is now 4 versions behind with 8.3

Last version in CWP is 8.3.21, php.net just released 8.3.25 today which fixes additional bugs & CVE's.

CWP has release several version, but hasn't updated the PHP versions 8.1, 8.2 or 8.3.

Even though they contain critical bug & CVE's fixes.

@Sandeep B. Why is CWP failing so behind??

Edited August 28Aug 28 by Starburst

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Hi @Sandeep B. Updated PHP and PHP 8.4 would be very desirable. Is there anything we can do to help make this happen?

For example, I manage more than 15 CWP Pro licenses on different servers, and most of them - the owners - are urging me to upgrade.

will create the tutorial soon

We could also use the PHP packages described in https://blog.remirepo.net/ . Remi's PHP versions are automatically updated, its have everything wee need for AlmaLinux 9.x, we just need to configure the PHP-FPM service and coordinate it with the CWP Apache and NGINX vhost templates.

And this can be done even without the GUI.

I use a similar setup on my development system under Ubuntu with the multi-php repo there.

I did an experiment with Remi based multi PHP.
Here is the install script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

# --- 0. Repos
dnf install -y epel-release
dnf install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-9.rpm

# --- 1. Which PHP SCL version do you want to install
VERSIONS=("php83" "php84")  # If only 8.4 needs, let: ("php84")

# Base PHP exts (for both PHP versions)
BASE_PKGS=(
  php-fpm php-cli php-common php-opcache
  php-mysqlnd php-mbstring php-zip php-bcmath
  php-process php-exif php-calendar php-tidy
  php-curl php-iconv php-gmp php-pspell
  php-gd php-xml php-xsl php-soap php-intl
  php-imap php-sockets php-sodium
  php-gettext php-bz2
)

# PECL add-ons (Usually used with CWP Pro )
PECL_PKGS=(
  php-pecl-imagick-im7
  php-pecl-memcache
  php-pecl-redis
  php-pecl-apcu
  php-pecl-mcrypt   # you may remove it, if no need
)

# System libs for GD (webp/avif/jpeg/freetype) and imagick running
dnf install -y libavif libwebp libjpeg-turbo freetype ImageMagick aspell aspell-en

# --- 2. Install the selected SCL PHP
for V in "${VERSIONS[@]}"; do
  SAFE_PREFIX="${V/83/83}"  # for example: V e.g. "php84"
  echo "===> Installing: ${V} (Remi SCL)"
  dnf --enablerepo=remi-safe install -y \
    $(printf '%s ' "${BASE_PKGS[@]/#/$(echo $V)-}") \
    $(printf '%s ' "${PECL_PKGS[@]/#/$(echo $V)-}")
done

# --- 3. Service start (itt most a 8.4-et engedélyezzük)
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable php84-php-fpm
systemctl restart php84-php-fpm
systemctl enable php83-php-fpm
systemctl restart php83-php-fpm

echo "=== Ready: Remi SCL PHP 8.3, 8.4 installed."

The place of php-fpm pool is: `nano /etc/opt/remi/php84/php-fpm.d/%username%.conf` where the %username% is the account name as usually in CWP Pro.

php-fpm pool template with manual setup:

[%username%]
listen = /var/opt/remi/php84/run/php-fpm/%backend%.sock
listen.owner = "%username%"
listen.group = nobody
listen.mode  = 0660

user  = "%username%"
group = "%username%"

pm = ondemand
pm.max_children = 4
pm.max_requests = 4000
pm.process_idle_timeout = 15s

rlimit_files = 131072
rlimit_core  = unlimited
catch_workers_output = yes

env[HOSTNAME] = $HOSTNAME
env[TMP]      = %home%/%username%/tmp
env[TMPDIR]   = %home%/%username%/tmp
env[TEMP]     = %home%/%username%/tmp
env[PATH]     = /opt/remi/php84/root/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

If you use PHP 8.3 change version and set path accordingly.

Change in generated Vhost template manually:

<FilesMatch \.php$>
  SetHandler "proxy:unix:/var/opt/remi/php84/run/php-fpm/%username%.sock|fcgi://localhost"
</FilesMatch>

The only drawback is that we cannot use the excellent GUI features of CWP Pro this way, but everything runs flawlessly, and this PHP (both 8.3 and 8.4) integrates the correct version of OpenSSL 3.x.

@Starburst You can try it.

@Sandeep B. How we can integrate it into GUI ?

Edited Friday at 09:48 PM5 days by TheHolbi
typo: username - backend