diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/8.4.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/8.4.nix
index 3c1f17048c37..c794e3963700 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/8.4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/8.4.nix
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ let
   base = callPackage ./generic.nix (
     _args
     // {
-      version = "8.4.0beta3";
+      version = "8.4.0RC3";
       phpSrc = fetchurl {
-        url = "https://downloads.php.net/~calvinb/php-8.4.0beta3.tar.xz";
-        hash = "sha256-aTgUCmS3tdV304Ag05DZObLKTQ8XgpNIfHARbhpZUAw=";
+        url = "https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0RC3.tar.xz";
+        hash = "sha256-6eA5w7NRfH5k+AyoIvuSEY9JgjtQqYwyZXTRSuKHBvY=";
       };
     }
   );
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/fix-paths-php84.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/fix-paths-php84.patch
index 294d13569af7..12a392bc973c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/fix-paths-php84.patch
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/fix-paths-php84.patch
@@ -13,15 +13,16 @@ index e46acf0928..ee8e5a88f8 100644
  
    AS_VAR_IF([GETTEXT_DIR],,
      [AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot locate header file libintl.h])])
-diff -ru a/sapi/apache2handler/config.m4 b/sapi/apache2handler/config.m4
---- a/sapi/apache2handler/config.m4	2018-11-07 15:35:23.000000000 +0000
-+++ b/sapi/apache2handler/config.m4	2018-11-27 00:32:28.000000000 +0000
-@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
-     AC_MSG_ERROR([Please note that Apache version >= 2.0.44 is required])
-   fi
+diff --git a/sapi/apache2handler/config.m4 b/sapi/apache2handler/config.m4
+index e335721f19..a5087e1320 100644
+--- a/sapi/apache2handler/config.m4
++++ b/sapi/apache2handler/config.m4
+@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ if test "$PHP_APXS2" != "no"; then
+   AS_VERSION_COMPARE([$APACHE_VERSION], [2.4.0],
+     [AC_MSG_ERROR([Please note that Apache version >= 2.4 is required])])
  
--  APXS_LIBEXECDIR='$(INSTALL_ROOT)'`$APXS -q LIBEXECDIR`
+-  APXS_LIBEXECDIR='$(INSTALL_ROOT)'$($APXS -q LIBEXECDIR)
 +  APXS_LIBEXECDIR="$prefix/modules"
-   if test -z `$APXS -q SYSCONFDIR`; then
+   if test -z $($APXS -q SYSCONFDIR); then
      INSTALL_IT="\$(mkinstalldirs) '$APXS_LIBEXECDIR' && \
                   $APXS -S LIBEXECDIR='$APXS_LIBEXECDIR' \