"php 5.x, 7.x and 8.0 caot compile against openssl 3.0 or higher. Try php 8.1 or higher"

  wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1w.tar.gz
  tar -zxf openssl-1.1.1w.tar.gz 
  cd openssl-1.1.1w
  make clean
  ./config shared –prefix=/usr –openssldir=/usr/local/openssl
  make && make test
  make install
  openssl version # still shows v3
  /usr/local/bin/openssl version # shows v1
  mv /usr/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl-bak
  ln -s /usr/local/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl
  openssl version # now shows v1 and php compiles