pecl_http extension not loading

Question

For some reason pecl_http extension is not showing up in my test.php file with contains:

<?php phpinfo(); ?> 

I just installed pecl_http using:

pecl install pecl_http

The install was successful and I verified it by running:

pecl list

Installed packages, channel pecl.php.net: ========================================= Package Version State mongo 1.2.10 stable pecl_http 1.7.4 stable 

I then located my php.ini file using:

php -i | grep 'Configuration File'

Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc/php5/cli Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php5/cli/php.ini 

I edited it in vim and added:

extension=http.so

Finally I restarted Nginx and PHP-FastCGI:

/etc/init.d/nginx restart /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi stop /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start 

My PHP extension_dir is :

/usr/lib/php5/20090626

I verified that "http.so" is located in that directory.

Any ideas why it's not loading?

My machine is running a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit Profile on Linode. The only other extensions I have installed are New Relic and Mongo.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Look at your phpini file paths:

Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc/php5/cli Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php5/cli/php.ini 

CLI is the Command Line interface. Check phpinfo() from your webserver and edit the correct php.ini.

Answer 2

For anyone else who may have arrived here looking for an answer but the accepted one didn't fit your case - I may have your solution!

I didn't have a setup problem - at least not to my knowledge. I am running nginx + php5-fpm. My php.ini file was correctly configured and all my other extensions were working properly - test it with phpinfo() or php --ini.

My problem with pecl_http (HttpRequest) was the extension's version (2.0.4). Check your version by running in the command line

pecl list 

I was unable to get pecl_http-2.0.4 to work, but I was able to run

pecl uninstall pecl_http

then

pecl install pecl_http-1.7.6. Make sure you have libcurl installed as well or you might experience install failures.

After restarting php5-fpm and my webserver (nginx) everything was working prefectly!

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EXTRA HELP:

Before you install - and pear is installed - you may want to run these two commands assuming you are using the php.ini in fpm - or you can write the path according to your configuration: pear config-set php_ini /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini pecl config-set php_ini /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

This makes it so that pecl knows which php.ini file you are using with your web-server and will add the extension=http.so in the correct spot. This helped me so maybe it'll help you too!

Answer 3

When I installed one package from AUR:

pecl_http

and I uncomment pecl_http PHP extension:

extension=http.so

in the file:

/etc/php/conf.d/http.ini

From this command:

php test.php

I got:

PHP Warning: Cannot load module 'http' because required module 'iconv' is not loaded in Unknown on line 0

Removing comment:

extension=iconv.so

in the file:

/etc/php/php.ini

solved the problem.

Linux distribution: Manjaro ( Arch Linux based ).