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How to enable Oracle OCI8 extensions for Plesk PHP 7?

The OCI8 extension can add to an existing PHP installation by using the DLLs from » PECL repository or the libraries in your PHP installation’s ext directory.

The OCI8 extension lets you access Oracle Database.

1. Firstly, install devel packages required to build custom PHP 7 modules

yum install plesk-php70-devel gcc glibc-devel libmemcached-devel zlib-devel make libaio.x86_64

2. Then, download oracle-instantclient12.1-basic-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm and oracle-instantclient12.1-devel-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm from Oracle OTN and upload it on the server.

3. Next, install oracle-instantclient12* packages:

rpm -Uhv oracle-instantclient12.1-basic-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient12.1-devel-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

4. Install oci8 package with pecl

/opt/plesk/php/7.0/bin/pecl install oci8-2.2.0

5. Finally, enable oci8 module in php.ini

echo "extension=oci8.so" > /opt/plesk/php/7.0/etc/php.d/oci.ini

To install oci8 extension for other PHP engines installed via Plesk Installer, install PHP devel package for corresponding PHP version. For example, for PHP 7.2:

yum install plesk-php72-devel

Note: That gcc, glibc-devel and other packages already installed on the Step 1

Repeat steps 4,5 from the above, just make sure that path is for the current PHP version:

/opt/plesk/php/7.2/bin/pecl install oci8-2.2.0

echo "extension=oci8.so" > /opt/plesk/php/7.2/etc/php.d/oci.ini

Check that extension is enabled:

/opt/plesk/php/7.2/bin/php -m | grep oci

oci8

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Conclusion

Today, we saw steps followed by our Support Engineers to enable Oracle OCI8 extension.