IS php 7.3 on DA+Alma 9 possible?

[dorucrisan]

I made a fresh instal of Alma9+DA. I need php 7.3 as some web shops requires that, not working correctly with php 8.
When trying to set php 7.3 as primary I received he below error. Can I do something to set php 7.3 as primary?

 

[Richard G]

Why not use Alma 8? We have php 7.4 on Alma 8. It still has openssl 1.1.1K so you can use php 7.x on it.

 

[dorucrisan]

Yes I know, but want to finish my research on Alma+DA. I finished with Alma 8. Now testing Alma 9 and found this issue. Is there any fix to that?

 

[cjd]

If your distribution your using has only openssl 3.0, the only supported version of PHP is => 8.1

PHP: Requirements - Manual

www.php.net

 

[dorucrisan]

It's standard Alma 9 + DA new install. No way downgrading from open ssl 3.0 to 1.0? That is big issue, there are many web sites /platforms not supporting php 8.xx.

 

[cjd]

You would be better to use Alma 8 (or any distribution that's not running openssl 3.0, i'm sticking with Debian 11 myself for all my production systems, use whatever your comfortable using).

You can't just downgrade openssl as everything that needs it is compiled against that version.

And attempting to use multiple openssl versions at the same time can be a headache, can really only be done either by distributions that support having multiple versions or all compiled from source with manual modifications to make it work. I have done it in the past and don't plan on doing it again.