Good day,
after multiple tries, I got it to work, or it resolved itself for that particular site, which was the only one that was causing issues. I’m not sure what went wrong with that particular account (from whm/cpanel server migration), it was the only website I had to use a backup to bring it back, all others where fully operational after the transfer. Thinking about it, note that I do not delete my comments above. I believe the issue was that I initially have php5.6 enabled on the old server, but on the new server this version was deemed end of life, so by default was not installed. I had to manually add id to the whm profile. Once I did that, all worked fine. Anyway it was a challenging process for me.
Thank you for the support.