PHP & Extensions, Need Advice

Hi All.

Im running Debian on my dedicated server, when i purchased the server it came preset with Apache, SQL, PHP and all the other stuff you'd expect to get as default.

I need to install cURL. Now heres the problem. I spent the past 24 Hours learning how to do it, and ended up nearly re-compiling php until someone said it can be done using shared extensions and there is no need to re-compile, so i looked it up some more and went ahead and done it that way. This is what i did:

1) Opened terminal, ran apt-get install php5-curl, installed ok, all went well.
2) Opened up the php.ini and added extension=libcurl.so * PROBLEM *

Now the phpinfo() is saying that my extensions directory is: /usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs . Inside that directory you have a few .so files, mysql, pdo and stuff.

If you go back a 2 directories, you end up in /usr/lib/, now in this folder is a long list of .so files but they have funny names. Ill print some off for you:

libbind9.so.0.0.8               
libpanelw.so.5
libc-client.so.2002edebian      
libpanelw.so.5.5
libc-client.so.2002edebian.1    
libpcap.so.0.8
libcrypto.so.0.9.8              
libpcap.so.0.9.5
libcurl.so.3                    
libpci.so.2
libcurl.so.3.0.0               
libdb-4.2.so                    
libdb-4.3.so                    
libdb-4.4.so                    
libdes425.so.3
libdes425.so.3.0

Code (markup):

So where is my real extension path? Do i need to remove the numbers from the .so files i want to use, and put them into the path thats in the .ini? If i was to change the path the mysql extension and pdo extension will fail right?

Im kind of stuck and have been stumped for hours. I will remain online, so if anyone can help or requires any info let me know and i will respond straight away.

Thanks for taking your time to view my problem even if you cant help me.

Regards

 

What does your phpinfo() tell you as the correct extension path??de

 

extension_dir: /usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs

 

duh...I should have read your post a little closer.

I would copy the files over to the extension directory and then load the correct file (libcurl.so.3.0.0) in the php.ini

However, I don't have much experience with extensions installed by apt-get. I usually grab the PECL extension and compile myself.

Bobby

 

I was going to do it with PECL but i like to learn the hard way round first, so i know all possible ways of installing extensions. I was going to grab the tarball and do it that way, but it didnt matter anyway because apt-get just takes care of the installation for you.

At the moment im doing everything right, and nothings happening, cant understand it, really i cant.

 

Also the manual says:

To use PHP's cURL support you must also compile PHP --with-curl[=DIR] where DIR is the location of the directory containing the lib and include directories. In the "include" directory there should be a folder named "curl" which should contain the easy.h and curl.h files. There should be a file named libcurl.a located in the "lib" directory.

Not sure if that applies to the way im doing it but i cant see any folders, just a .so