Ubuntu pecl install pecl_http fail

Question

I'm trying to install this extension but it fails in the configuration phase. I'm on ubuntu 12.04 and I have just installed these packages:

• libcurl3-openssl-dev
• php-http
• libpcre3-dev
• libcurl3
• php-pear
• php5-dev

PHP version:

PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.14 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Sep  4 2014 07:08:49) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2010, by Derick Rethans

Here is the log of the installation command:

sudo pecl install pecl_http
downloading pecl_http-2.1.1.tgz ...
Starting to download pecl_http-2.1.1.tgz (158,441 bytes)
.................................done: 158,441 bytes
64 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20090626
Zend Module Api No:      20090626
Zend Extension Api No:   220090626
Enable extended HTTP support [yes] : 
where to find zlib [/usr] : 
where to find libcurl [/usr] : 
where to find libevent [/usr] : 
building in /tmp/pear/temp/pear-build-rootqE2kgU/pecl_http-2.1.1
running: /tmp/pear/temp/pecl_http/configure --with-http --with-http-zlib-dir=/usr --with-http-libcurl-dir=/usr --with-http-libevent-dir=/home/gare88/Lib/Php/libevent-2.0.21-stable/
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep

[... cut...]

checking for zlib.h... found in /usr
checking for zlib version >= 1.2.0.4... 1.2.3.4
checking for curl/curl.h... found in /usr
checking for curl-config... found: /usr/bin/curl-config
checking for curl version >= 7.18.2... 7.22.0
checking for SSL support in libcurl... yes
checking for openssl support in libcurl... no
checking for gnutls support in libcurl... no
checking for ares support in libcurl... no
checking for bundled SSL CA info... /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
checking for event2/event.h... not found
configure: WARNING: continuing without libevent support
checking for ext/raphf support... no
configure: error: Please install pecl/raphf and activate extension=raphf.so in your php.ini
ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/pecl_http/configure --with-http --with-http-zlib-dir=/usr --with-http-libcurl-dir=/usr --with-http-libevent-dir=/usr' failed

It seems that is a problem with pecl/raphf so I tried:

sudo pecl install raphf
pecl/raphf is already installed and is the same as the released version 1.0.4
install failed

At the end of php.ini file located on /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini I added the line:

extension=raphf.so
extension=propro.so
extension=http.so

Is there anything else I can try?

Answer 1

You need to install php-raphf from your package manager.

for me i installed the module using the following. In your case you should be able to switch out yum for apt-get.

sudo yum install php-raphf
sudo yum install php-propro
sudo pecl install pecl_http

The you will need to add extension = http.so to your php.ini file. But it looks like you have already done that.

pecl does not actually install the .so file that you are looking for.

Answer 2

if you have ubuntu 13 or 14, try pecl install pecl_http-1.7.6 as newer versions still do not load for some reason.

Answer 3

On Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS this worked for me:

First install some prerequisites needed for compilation:

sudo apt-get install php-http
sudo apt-get install php5-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl3
sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo pecl install raphf 
sudo pecl install pecl_http-1.7.6

after that go to the folder /usr/lib/php5/modules and check if the libraries are there: raphf.so, propro.so and http.so.

If your php.ini (at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and /etc/php5/cli/php.ini) does not contain these extensions, add them:

extension=http.so
extension=propro.so
extension=raphf.so

or using the absolute path to the files, e.g. extension=/usr/lib/php5/modules/http.so.

And as last step restart your webserver, thus loading the new configuration:

sudo service apache2 reload