Coolstack: Difficulty enabling cURL and Tidy in PHP

Question

Hello:
I've been trying to enable curl and Tidy in PHP. I was successful in getting curl running by adding the following to php.ini:
extension="curl.so"
However, after restarting Apache, I was seeing a warning in error_log that indicated libcurl.so.3 could not be found. I was able to locate a version of this file in /opt/staroffice8/program/libcurl.so.3, and after I copied it to /usr/lib, curl worked fine. Not an ideal fix, but I could not locate libcurl.so.3 in any download repository on sun.com.
Interestingly, I noticed that phpinfo() indicates that curl is already compiled into PHP 5 - here's an excerpt from my PHP configure command:
'./configure'
<snip>
'--with-curl=shared,/opt/coolstack'
It seems like I'm going about this wrong. On a related note, I also want to enable Tidy, and did so by adding the following to php.ini:
extension="tidy.so"
Again, this caused apache produce a warning in error_log looking for libtidy-0.99.so.0, and again, I have the following in my PHP configure command:
'./configure'
<snip>
'--with-tidy=shared,/opt/coolstack'
Any insight into enabling these extensions would be greatly appreciated.
Dave

Answer 1

Open /etc/php/php.ini and find this:
; available extensions
;extension=bcmath.so
extension=bz2.so
;extension=calendar.so
extension=curl.so
Make sure curl.so is uncommented.  If it's not, change your config then restart the webserver.
Last edited by Endperform (2008-06-29 21:35:16)