How to enable Oracle OCI8 extensions for Plesk PHP 7

Question

How to enable Oracle OCI8 extensions for Plesk PHP 7

Answer

Warning: The article is applicable for RHEL/CentOS distributions.

1. 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. 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. 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. 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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