Ubuntu 10.04 & PHP 5.3: Installing pecl_http

To install the pecl_http PHP extension on Ubuntu 10.04 follow the instructions below:

Install the required packages:

# sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Install pecl_http:
```
# sudo pecl install pecl_http
```
Create file /etc/php5/conf.d/http.ini with the following content:
```
extension=http.so
```
Restart Apache2:
```
# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
```

After restarting the Apache2 web server a “http” section should be included in the phpinfo() output.

August 26, 2010

Jan Jonas

Vijay Kumbhar says:

May 14, 2011 at 6:34 pm

Thanks Jan,

I was tried tons of tutorials to install the pecl http, i installed it successfully but i can not be able to configure it. But from your tutorial it worked.

Thanks a lot … for gr8 work
PetriDish says:

January 26, 2012 at 3:47 am

Nice article, I’m trying to do this on an ec2 instance by passing a script to set up pecl_http via the user_data parameter. Any ideas on how to automate the process?
Manpreet says:

March 13, 2012 at 12:38 am

Thanks man. I had already wasted time and was not creating .ini file. Helped alot. Thanks again.
Szépe Viktor says:

April 23, 2012 at 6:33 pm

Thank You very much!
Plese make the code selectable with mouse (FF11)
Jan Jonas says:

April 24, 2012 at 9:30 pm

Thanks for your comment. The code should be selectable now.
yusuf says:

February 10, 2014 at 10:46 am

sudo pecl install pecl_http
Package “pecl_http” Version “2.0.4” does not have REST dependency information available
install failed

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