Installing PHP Zip Extension

Question

I'm attempting to install the PHP Zip extension.

My server does not have external internet access, so I downloaded it myself from PECL: http://pecl.php.net/package/zip. I chose 1.10.2, the latest "stable" release, and transferred it to my server.

I ran:

pear install zip-1.10.2.tgz 

and added

extension=zip.so 

to php.ini as instructed. I can see that zip.so was created and placed in the right extension_dir folder as well. I restarted apache and then checked to see if it was loaded by running:

php -m 

Despite all of this, "zip" is still not in that list.

Am I missing a step or doing something wrong? I thought this should be really simple, and I'm starting to feel pretty dumb, haha.

Other probably important stuff:

CentOS Apache 2.2.3 PHP 5.2.16

Answer 1

This is how I installed it on my machine (ubuntu):

php 7:

sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip 

php 5:

sudo apt-get install php5-zip 

Edit:
Make sure to restart your server afterwards.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart or sudo service nginx restart

PS: If you are using centOS, please check above cweiske's answer
But if you are using a Debian derivated OS, this solution should help you installing php zip extension.

Answer 2

You may have several php.ini files, one for CLI and one for apache. Run php --ini to see where the CLI ini location is.