php-fpm bad gateway errors PHP 7.4

Did we lose PHP 7.4 support in 132.00stable alma9? I know there was a notice but it doesn't look like the workaround is working anymore after upgrading centminmod and recompiling 7.4 (bad gateway on Wordpress after doing it).

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Is my only option to migrate to Alma8?

 

I upgraded 3 small servers (Hetzner 3 vCPU 4GB RAM & 2 vCPU 2 GB RAM) with small sites that don't get much traffic and it affected all of them. Previously they worked perfectly on PHP 7.4 (built around the time I migrated to Alma9).

On one, I upgraded to PHP 8.3 and it solved the issue.

I can't upgrade PHP yet on the others because there's no alternative plugins for what I use yet.

I think it was the PHP 7.4 recompile rather than the 132.00stable upgrade.

When loading the page, I get "ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR" and when I log into WP Admin I get the bad gateway.

 

Maybe these posts can be moved to my original thread from last year https://community.centminmod.com/threads/downgrading-php-results-in-502-bad-gateway.26872/

Custom config:

Code (Text):

LETSENCRYPT_DETECT='y'
DUALCERTS='y'
MARCH_TARGETNATIVE='n'
DISABLE_IPVSIX='y'
SET_DEFAULT_MYSQLCHARSET='utf8mb4'
SELFSIGNEDSSL_ECDSA='y'
PHPFINFO='y'
PHP_OVERWRITECONF='n'
PYTHON_INSTALL_ALTERNATIVES='y'

But this time it's just recompiling PHP 7.4 (from PHP 7.4 instead of downgrading from PHP 8)

The error log has been logging stuff like this ever since:

Code (Text):

WARNING: [pool www] child 2000037 exited on signal 11 (SIGSEGV - core dumped) after 7.945090 seconds from start

Nothing like it before recompiling PHP 7.4 in the old /var/log/php-fpm log files

In the domain error log:

Code (Text):

2025/03/30 00:00:30 [error] 1753976#1753976: *18975651 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client: my-ip-address, server: domain.com, request: "GET /wp-admin/ HTTP/2.0", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "www.domain.com"

 

I've already tried disabling plugins but didn't restart php-fpm right after. I just tried it but didn't help.

 

I ended up upgrading one server to PHP 8.3 and it fixed the issue (like last time).
I deleted another server because I decided I'm no longer going to preserve that data (it's no longer needed).
So it's just 1 more server I have that needs to be on PHP 7.4 for the next couple of years

 

Anything lower than PHP 8.1 has this issue it seems (7.4 and 8.0 but 8.0 isn't as bad as 7.4)

So I think it's the workaround not working on Alma9..?

 

Yea I know, but I was wondering if there's an updated workaround or if we're forced to either downgrade to EL8 / upgrade plugins now in 2025? I figure something is broken / not right from the current PHP 7.4 recompile.