install/enable sqlsrv/pdo_sqlsrv php8.1 on AlmaLinux v9.4.0

The hostgator server updated the linux system from CentOs to Almalinux and now I need to install the sqlsrv drivers again as I only get the error could not find driver What I've done so far is move these 2 files to the **/opt/cpanel/ea-php81/root/lib64/php/modules** folder on the server **SQLSRV_8.1_NTS.so** **PDO_SQLSRV_8.1_NTS.so** Then I put these 2 lines in php.ini **extension=SQLSRV_8.1_NTS.so** **extension=PDO_SQLSRV_8.1_NTS.so** I restarted the server. PHPinfo looked like this The page that connects to the database only displays this message: **could not find driver** The PHP code is this: $drive = 'sqlsrv'; $server = 'host.server.here'; $port = '1443'; $server = $port !== '1443' && is_string($port) ? $server .= ", $port": $server; $database = 'name_database'; $user = 'user_here'; $pass = 'pass_here'; $pdoConfig = $drive . ":". "Server=" . $server . ";"; $pdoConfig .= "Database=".$database.";"; try { if(!isset($connection)){ $connection = new PDO($pdoConfig, $user, $pass); $connection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); return $connection; } }catch (PDOException $e) { print_r($e->getMessage()); return null; }