Zabbix 5.0 install Failing php timezone unknown

[tpolim008]

Hello, I have recently installed Zabbix on centos 8, when going thru the front end install I get the error php date timezone unknown fail. I have updated all possible PHP.ini files along with the Zabbix config file, ive removed the ; at the front of every file not sure if this is needed or not. Here is a list of files which I have altered for PHP

list of altered PHP files for timezone and removed the ; at the start
/etc/php.ini
/etc/php.ini.rpmnew
/etc/php.ini.rpmsave
/etc/opt/remi/php74/php.ini
/opt/etc/php.ini
/opt/remi/php74/root/usr/share/doc/php74-php-common/php.ini-development
/opt/remi/php74/root/usr/share/doc/php74-php-common/php.ini-production
/usr/share/doc/php-common/php.ini-development
/usr/share/doc/php-common/php.ini-production
[root@netengsrv01 ~]#

root@netengsrv01 ~]# nano /etc/php-fpm.d/zabbix.conf
GNU nano 2.9.8 /etc/php-fpm.d/zabbix.conf

[zabbix]
user = apache
group = apache

listen = /run/php-fpm/zabbix.sock
listen.acl_users = apache,nginx
listen.allowed_clients = 127.0.0.1

pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 50
pm.start_servers = 5
pm.min_spare_servers = 5
pm.max_spare_servers = 35

php_value[session.save_handler] = files
php_value[session.save_path] = /var/lib/php/session

php_value[max_execution_time] = 300
php_value[memory_limit] = 128M
php_value[post_max_size] = 16M
php_value[upload_max_filesize] = 2M
php_value[max_input_time] = 300
php_value[max_input_vars] = 10000
php_value[date.timezone] = America/New_York <<<<<<<<<<<<<


Check of pre-requisites

• Time zone for PHP is not set (configuration parameter "date.timezone").

PHP version	7.4.9	7.2.0	OK
PHP option "memory_limit"	128M	128M	OK
PHP option "post_max_size"	16M	16M	OK
PHP option "upload_max_filesize"	2M	2M	OK
PHP option "max_execution_time"	300	300	OK
PHP option "max_input_time"	300	300	OK
PHP option "date.timezone"	unknown		Fail
PHP databases support	MySQL		OK
PHP bcmath	on		OK
PHP mbstring	on		OK
PHP option "mbstring.func_overload"	off	off	OK
PHP sockets	on		OK
PHP gd	2.2.5	2.0	OK
PHP gd PNG support	on		OK
PHP gd JPEG support	on		OK
PHP gd GIF support	on		OK
PHP gd FreeType support	on		OK
PHP libxml	2.9.7	2.6.15	OK
PHP xmlwriter	on		OK
PHP xmlreader	on		OK
PHP LDAP	on		OK
PHP OpenSSL	on		OK
PHP ctype	on		OK
PHP session	on		OK
PHP option "session.auto_start"	off	off	OK
PHP gettext	on		OK
PHP option "arg_separator.output"	&	&	OK

[tim.mooney]

The setting in the php-fpm pool will override the system-wide setting from php.ini, but you need to restart the php-fpm service after changing any of the parameters in the pool configuration file.

Also, having multiple installs of PHP on your system is just a recipe for confusion. Figure out which PHP you want to use, and remove the other ones. Clean up any config files that are left behind by the PHP version(s) you uninstall, so they're not left around to confuse you and your coworkers.

The .rpmnew and .rpmsave files are created by the package manager (it's RPM, under the hood, even if you use yum or dnf as the interface) and they're generally ignored by PHP.

Once you have just one copy of PHP installed, you can see what paths it claims using a command like

rpm -q -l php-common

(assuming that the package name for the common PHP components needed by the other parts of PHP is 'php-common'). You can use that rpm query (-q) with long output (-l) on any package name, to find what files it "owns".

[tpolim008]

So I'm at a loss here or confused. I have fully removed php from my system and installed php7 only, still having the same issue... the php-fpm file doesn't have a timezone listed its references to another file that again no timezone area. Do you have any idea what php.ini I need to locate and update to make this work? Even after the below it still fails.

root@netengsrv01 ~]# php -v
PHP 7.4.9 (cli) (built: Aug 4 2020 08:28:13) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.4.9, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
[root@netengsrv01 ~]# sudo systemctl start php-fpm
[root@netengsrv01 ~]# sudo systemctl enable php-fpm
[root@netengsrv01 ~]# sudo systemctl restart httpd
[root@netengsrv01 ~]#

[root@netengsrv01 ~]# yum list installed | grep php
oniguruma5php.x86_64 6.9.5+rev1-2.el8.remi @remi-safe
php.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-bcmath.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-cli.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-common.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-fpm.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-gd.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-json.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-ldap.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-mbstring.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-mysqlnd.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-opcache.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-pdo.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-sodium.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
php-xml.x86_64 7.4.9-1.el8.remi @remi-modular
[root@netengsrv01 ~]#

[tpolim008]

after tons more of digging it had to be in such format "America/New_York"