What ALT-PHP versions and PHP extensions can CloudLinux v8.8.0 STANDARD kvm install?

**bogdan.sh** · 02-18-2026, 07:16 PM

Do you plan to use cPanel to sell hosting or just to host your own websites? The main purpose of CloudLinux with Hardened PHP is not just to provide different PHP versions/modules, but to provide the easy and fair way to assign resources to customers on shared hosting, and to make it more secure with CageFS.

If you want to sell shred hosting - CloudLinux OS + Hardened PHP is the option for you.

**SAGARA** · 02-19-2026, 09:40 PM

I currently only have a cPanel account using a single domain, We rented a VPS + CloudLinux + cPanel WHM simply because the virtual host couldn't accommodate my file size. (I don't think we're any different from regular cPanel users.)

However, we have indeed encountered a technical bottleneck.

I'm unsure if we have configured PHP + MariaDB correctly.

All I can say is that we need help right now.

**bogdan.sh** · 02-20-2026, 06:25 AM

Ah, you already have CloudLinux, that's a big difference. Installing additional PHP version is quite easy, just login to that server over ssh as root and run this commands:

Code:

yum groupinstall alt-php80

yum groupinstall alt-php83

Then check WHM > CloudLinux Manager > Selector to ensure they are enabled for end-customers (by default they are enabled, so should be good).

And so they become available to be used per hosting accounts.

**SAGARA** · 02-23-2026, 02:51 PM

Thank you for your reply.

Let me tell you about the current situation, A few days ago, my hosting company installed PHP versions 8.2 and 8.3 on PHP Selector for me.

I also installed some PHP versions and PHP extensions through EasyApache 4, This might cause a mysqli conflict between two different PHP versions.

Therefore, I will temporarily switch back to PHP 8.0 for use.

My Attachments lists the PHP Selector extensions installed by my hosting company, which differ from the extension lists installed by other hosting companies.

Can my OS version have the same PHP and extension features as everyone else?

Attached Files

php.zip (889 Bytes, 1 view)

**bogdan.sh** · 02-23-2026, 03:35 PM

Let me rephrase to ensure we are on the same page.

You previously had a shared cPanel account with some hosting.
Now, you rent your own VPS with CloudLinux OS and cPanel, hosting your website there.
You want to have the same PHP extensions installed as shown in the first screenshot from your previous hosting company.

Have you installed alt-php83 or alt-php84 using the commands I outlined in the previous step?

Currently, check WHM > MultiPHP Manager > System Settings for the PHP package selected for the desired PHP 8 version, and explicitly select alt-php8x there. Here is the screenshot for alt-php8.3 from our test server.

Attached Files

**SAGARA** · 03-07-2026, 08:53 AM

Yes, This is my current situation.

I have administrative privileges for cPanel WHM.

I following the guidance of my hosting company, I installed the specified PHP version and extensions using EasyApache 4.

The engineer also installed the following versions for me in PHP Selector:
php 8.1
php 8.2
php 8.3

And install some extensions of php 8.1, But he told me that due to my OS version, the number of PHP extensions I could install was limited:

Is this correct?

Please forgive me for replying so late.

**bogdan.sh** · 03-09-2026, 10:50 AM

It's incorrect in general, php extensions are not commonly related to OS version (with some minor exceptions).

What profile is being selected in EeasyApache? Can you please show the screenshot of the first page of it, where it says "Currently installed packages" and "Available Profiles"?

I guess you are missing the alt-php83-pecl-ext package, could you please ask your engineer to install it either from EasyApache or from commandline. And then do same for other php versions.

**SAGARA** · 03-09-2026, 11:56 AM

Thank you for your reply.

This is my EasyApache 4 information:

Current Profile

The currently installed packages on the server.

Apache 2.4

config
config-runtime
mod_asis
mod_authn_anon
mod_authn_socache
mod_bwlimited
mod_cgid
mod_cpanel
mod_deflate
mod_env
mod_expires
mod_ext_filter
mod_headers
mod_hostinglimits
mod_http2
mod_mime_magic
mod_mpm_worker
mod_proxy
mod_proxy_connect
mod_proxy_express
mod_proxy_fcgi
mod_proxy_fdpass
mod_proxy_ftp
mod_proxy_html
mod_proxy_http
mod_proxy_wstunnel
mod_remoteip
mod_reqtimeout
mod_request
mod_security2
mod_ssl
mod_suexec
mod_unique_id
mod_version
mod_vhost_alias
tools

PHP 7.3

libc-client
pear
php-bcmath
php-bz2
php-calendar
php-cli
php-common
php-curl
php-dba
php-devel
php-enchant
php-exif
php-fileinfo
php-fpm
php-ftp
php-gd
php-gettext
php-gmp
php-iconv
php-imap
php-intl
php-ioncube10
php-ldap
php-litespeed
php-mbstring
php-memcache
php-memcached
php-mysqlnd
php-odbc
php-opcache
php-pdo
php-posix
php-snmp
php-soap
php-sockets
php-sourceguardian
php-tidy
php-xml
php-xmlrpc
php-zip
runtime

PHP 7.4

libc-client
pear
php-bcmath
php-bz2
php-calendar
php-cli
php-common
php-curl
php-dba
php-devel
php-enchant
php-exif
php-fileinfo
php-fpm
php-ftp
php-gd
php-gettext
php-gmp
php-iconv
php-imap
php-intl
php-ioncube10
php-ldap
php-litespeed
php-mbstring
php-memcache
php-memcached
php-mysqlnd
php-odbc
php-opcache
php-pdo
php-posix
php-snmp
php-soap
php-sockets
php-sourceguardian
php-tidy
php-xml
php-xmlrpc
php-zip
runtime

PHP 8.0

pear
php-bcmath
php-bz2
php-calendar
php-cli
php-common
php-curl
php-dba
php-devel
php-enchant
php-exif
php-fileinfo
php-fpm
php-ftp
php-gd
php-gettext
php-gmp
php-iconv
php-imap
php-intl
php-ldap
php-litespeed
php-mbstring
php-memcached
php-mysqlnd
php-odbc
php-opcache
php-pdo
php-posix
php-snmp
php-soap
php-sockets
php-sourceguardian
php-tidy
php-xml
php-zip
runtime

PHP 8.1

libc-client
pear
php-bcmath
php-bz2
php-calendar
php-cli
php-common
php-curl
php-dba
php-devel
php-enchant
php-exif
php-fileinfo
php-fpm
php-ftp
php-gd
php-gettext
php-gmp
php-iconv
php-imap
php-intl
php-ioncube14
php-ldap
php-litespeed
php-mbstring
php-memcached
php-mysqlnd
php-odbc
php-opcache
php-pdo
php-posix
php-snmp
php-soap
php-sockets
php-sourceguardian
php-tidy
php-xml
php-zip
runtime

PHP 8.2

libc-client
pear
php-bcmath
php-bz2
php-calendar
php-cli
php-common
php-curl
php-dba
php-devel
php-enchant
php-exif
php-fileinfo
php-fpm
php-ftp
php-gd
php-gettext
php-gmp
php-iconv
php-imap
php-intl
php-ldap
php-litespeed
php-mbstring
php-memcached
php-mysqlnd
php-odbc
php-opcache
php-pdo
php-posix
php-snmp
php-soap
php-sockets
php-sourceguardian
php-tidy
php-xml
php-zip
runtime

PHP 8.3

pear
php-bcmath
php-bz2
php-calendar
php-cli
php-common
php-curl
php-dba
php-devel
php-enchant
php-exif
php-fileinfo
php-fpm
php-ftp
php-gd
php-gettext
php-gmp
php-iconv
php-imap
php-intl
php-ioncube14
php-ldap
php-litespeed
php-mbstring
php-memcached
php-mysqlnd
php-odbc
php-opcache
php-pdo
php-posix
php-snmp
php-soap
php-sockets
php-sourceguardian
php-tidy
php-xml
php-zip
runtime

PHP 8.4

pear
php-bcmath
php-bz2
php-calendar
php-cli
php-common
php-curl
php-dba
php-devel
php-enchant
php-exif
php-fileinfo
php-fpm
php-ftp
php-gd
php-gettext
php-gmp
php-iconv
php-intl
php-ioncube14
php-ldap
php-litespeed
php-mbstring
php-memcached
php-mysqlnd
php-odbc
php-opcache
php-pdo
php-posix
php-snmp
php-soap
php-sockets
php-sourceguardian
php-tidy
php-xml
php-zip
runtime

PHP 8.5

pear
php-bcmath
php-bz2
php-calendar
php-cli
php-common
php-curl
php-dba
php-devel
php-enchant
php-exif
php-fileinfo
php-fpm
php-ftp
php-gd
php-gettext
php-gmp
php-iconv
php-intl
php-ldap
php-litespeed
php-mbstring
php-memcached
php-mysqlnd
php-odbc
php-pdo
php-posix
php-snmp
php-soap
php-sockets
php-sourceguardian
php-tidy
php-xml
php-zip
runtime

其他方案

apr
apr-util
brotli
cpanel-tools
documentroot
libargon2
libcurl
libcurl-devel
libicu
libmcrypt
libnghttp2
libnghttp2-devel
libtidy
libxml2
libzip
memcached
modsec-sdbm-util
nghttp2
oniguruma
oniguruma-devel
openssl
openssl-devel
openssl11
openssl11-devel
php-cli
php-cli-lsphp
profiles-cpanel
wappspector

I think these are all versions of EA-PHP in "EasyApache 4 > PHP Versions".

Code:

yum groupinstall alt-php82

The PHP 8.2 and PHP 8.3 versions installed for me by the engineer did not include mysqli or other extensions, The one-time paid maintenance has ended, so I have to rely on myself now.

Do you mean I need to execute the instructions you gave me again if I want to use the PHP Selector?

PS. How can I remove unnecessary PHP versions and files from ALT?
4.4
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
7.0
7.1
7.2

Thank you for your help.

**bogdan.sh** · 03-11-2026, 01:01 PM

I just went intalling brand new test machine with same CloudLinux 8 version and cPanel, and got the necessary php extensions available:

The next step is important, please open your EasyApache 4 from WHM , click on Customize currently selected options and after a few steps you will get to PHP versions menu, this is the place where you can uninstall unnecessary PHP versions from. Also, please show the screenshot of what they look like (pay attention to my screenshot where it says "alt" tag is used next to the package):

Let me know how it goes.

**SAGARA** · 03-11-2026, 03:18 PM

Thank you for your help.

You are my hero, This is exactly what I needed.

But I need to discuss it with my boss before deciding whether to execute the command and install it.

Please let me confirm the following terminal command with you:

Install the specified PHP version:

Code:

yum groupinstall alt-php8*

Install the PHP extensions package for the specified PHP version.

Code:

yum alt-php8*-pecl-ext

Can I automate the entire process by simply entering these two commands in the terminal? (This includes overwriting some existing standalone extensions)

Because the engineer installed ioncube_loader in version 8.2, I'm unsure if the commands in the expansion package will be executed correctly.

EasyApache 4:
PHP Versions

Does the "alt" tag only appear when the command you provided is executed?

This is the current situation.

Thank you for your help.

**bogdan.sh** · 2026-03-12T08:34:22+00:00

Sorry to say, but I do not see the "alt" tag on a screenshot here. Something is still not Ok. The yum groupinstall are actually same as packages being enabled here in EasyApache 4 page. You either select them in WHM>EasyApache 4 or use command line.

Let's do the following - open EasyApache 4, then click Customize next to "CloudLinux" version of profile, and check if there are php versions tagged with "alt" . And if they are - that would be best option to switch profile to. Here is your screenshot from few posts before.

What ALT-PHP versions and PHP extensions can CloudLinux v8.8.0 STANDARD kvm install?

What ALT-PHP versions and PHP extensions can CloudLinux v8.8.0 STANDARD kvm install?

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