How do i install php 8 without php-fpm and nginx modules?

I am trying to install Apache2 + PHP 8.1 in a fresh install of a Centos 8.5 server.

This is my server setup:

[centos@api-stg html]$ cat /etc/*elease
CentOS Stream release 8
NAME="CentOS Stream"
VERSION="8"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Stream 8"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:8"
HOME_URL="https://centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="CentOS Stream"
CentOS Stream release 8
CentOS Stream release 8

I was following this tutorial, but when I got to the sudo dnf install php php-mysqlnd command I got the following to be installed:

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Dependencies resolved.
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 Package                                Architecture                 Version                                                          Repository                          Size
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Installing:
 php                                    x86_64                       8.1.3-1.el8.remi                                                 remi-modular                       1.7 M
 php-cli                                x86_64                       8.1.3-1.el8.remi                                                 remi-modular                       5.3 M
 php-common                             x86_64                       8.1.3-1.el8.remi                                                 remi-modular                       1.2 M
Installing dependencies:
 libsodium                              x86_64                       1.0.18-2.el8                                                     epel                               162 k
 oniguruma5php                          x86_64                       6.9.7.1-1.el8.remi                                               remi-safe                          210 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 nginx-filesystem                       noarch                       1:1.14.1-9.module_el8.0.0+1060+3ab382d3                          appstream                           24 k
 php-fpm                                x86_64                       8.1.3-1.el8.remi                                                 remi-modular                       1.8 M
 php-mbstring                           x86_64                       8.1.3-1.el8.remi                                                 remi-modular                       520 k
 php-opcache                            x86_64                       8.1.3-1.el8.remi                                                 remi-modular                       627 k
 php-pdo                                x86_64                       8.1.3-1.el8.remi                                                 remi-modular                       161 k
 php-sodium                             x86_64                       8.1.3-1.el8.remi                                                 remi-modular                       101 k
 php-xml                                x86_64                       8.1.3-1.el8.remi                                                 remi-modular                       251 k
Enabling module streams:
 nginx                                                               1.14

Transaction Summary
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Now, I don't want anything related to Nginx or php-fpm, is there a way to exclude those from my setup?

Now, I don't want anything related to Nginx or php-fpm, is there a way to exclude those from my setup?

On CentOS >= 8, to enable PHP you NEED php-fpm. httpd is configured to use FastCGI (provided by php-fpm) using mod_proxy.

In above transaction, nginx is NOT installed (only nginx-filesystem which only owns a few directories for configuration files).

Installing httpd and php-fpm, and starting the services, and everything will work as expected.

P.S. It is still possible to use mod_php on C8 (so without php-fpm), but this is not recommended, and imply to switch httpd to prefork mode (which is bad for performance and security). It is not possible anymore on C9.