How to Install the MongoDB PHP Driver (Extension) on Fedora 21

Posted on January 23, 2015 by J. Mays

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Fedora, Fedora 21, gcc, MongoDB, pear, PECL

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Note:

Please note that this article is considered legacy documentation because Fedora 21 has reached its end-of-life support.

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended specifically for installing the MongoDB PHP Driver (Extension) on Fedora 21.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 21 server with Apache 2 (httpd) and PHP already installed, configured, and running, and I’ll be logged in as a non-root user, but with sudo access. For information on giving a user sudo access visit our page on How to Add a User and Grant Root Privileges on Fedora 21.

Step 1: Setup Environment, Install PHP Extension & Application Repository (PEAR)

As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:

sudo yum -y update

Then let’s install a compiler, the PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR), and PHP development tools:

sudo yum -y install gcc php-pear php-devel

Step 2: Installation with the PHP Extension Community Library (PECL)

Now let’s install the MongoDB PHP driver (extension) with PECL:

sudo pecl install mongo

Next you’ll be prompted regarding ‘MongoDB Enterprise Authentication’. If you’re not specifically using SASL (and already have it installed), then hit enter to continue (thus answering ‘no’):

Build with Cyrus SASL (MongoDB Enterprise Authentication) support? [no] :

Step 3:Configure PHP

For a refresher on editing files with vim see: New User Tutorial: Overview of the Vim Text Editor

sudo vim /etc/php.ini

It is possible to place the following bit of code anywhere in the php.ini file. However, the most common location for extensions is in the Dynamic Extensions section.

Find Dynamic Extensions and insert the following in that section:

extension=mongo.so

Then exit and save the file with the command :wq .

And now we’ll restart Apache:

sudo systemctl restart httpd

Step 4: Verify the Extension is Available

Now verify that the extension is available by using the following command:

php -m | grep -i mongo

Your result should be:

mongo

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