OK I found the issue and it's working right now. I still have a couple more versions to get to current.
The reason I'm bothering with this is Dreamhost wants me on a new version or they're going to charge me $5 a month to sell me long term support for PHP 7.4, whatever that means. It's not like I ever use them for mediawiki support. If I can get PHP to 8.1 then I can avoid that. -- John. >
