How to enable SOAP on CentOS

Question

We have VPS with CentOS I have installed soap with following command.

yum install php-soap

Then I went to php.ini to un-comment soap extension. It was not there so, I added my own following line.

extension=soap.so

Then i restart server with following command

service httpd restart

But SOAP is still not enabled. as i get Fatal error: Class 'SoapClient' If i try to install it again. I get following message.

Package php-soap-5.3.3-27.el6_5.x86_64 already installed and latest version

I tried to re-configure PHP with following command as well.

php-config '--disable-fileinfo' '--disable-pdo' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-libxml' '--enable-sockets' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-curl=/opt/curlssl/' '--with-imap=/opt/php_with_imap_client/' '--with-imap-ssl=/usr' '--with-kerberos' '--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-libxml-dir=/opt/xml2/' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-openssl-dir=/usr' '--with-pcre-regex=/opt/pcre' '--with-pic' '--with-zlib' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--enable-soap'

Any help?

Answer 1

I installed php-soap to CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) using following way.

1) yum install php-soap

================================================================================
 Package              Arch           Version                 Repository    Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 php-soap             x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base         157 k
Updating for dependencies:
 php                  x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base         1.4 M
 php-cli              x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base         2.7 M
 php-common           x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base         563 k
 php-devel            x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base         600 k
 php-gd               x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base         126 k
 php-mbstring         x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base         503 k
 php-mysql            x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base          99 k
 php-pdo              x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base          97 k
 php-xml              x86_64         5.4.16-36.el7_1         base         124 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package
Upgrade             ( 9 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 6.3 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
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Installed:
  php-soap.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1

Dependency Updated:
  php.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1          php-cli.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1
  php-common.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1   php-devel.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1
  php-gd.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1       php-mbstring.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1
  php-mysql.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1    php-pdo.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1
  php-xml.x86_64 0:5.4.16-36.el7_1

Complete!

2) yum search php-soap

============================ N/S matched: php-soap =============================
php-soap.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use the SOAP protocol

3) service httpd restart

To verify run following

4) php -m | grep -i soap

soap

Answer 2

On CentOS 7, the following works:

yum install php-soap

This will automatically create a soap.ini under /etc/php.d.

The extension itself for me lives in /usr/lib64/php/modules. You can confirm your extension directory by doing:

php -i | grep extension_dir

Once this has been installed, you can simply restart Apache using the new service manager like so:

systemctl restart httpd

Thanks to Matt Browne for the info about /etc/php.d.

Answer 3

After hours of searching I think my problem was that command yum install php-soap installs the latest version of soap for the latest php version of php.

My php version was 7.027, but latest version was 7.2 so I had to search for the right soap version and finaly found it HERE!

yum install rh-php70-php-soap

Now php -m | grep -i soap works:

outputs: soap !

do not forget to restart httpd service.

yoohooo!

Answer 4

For my point of view, First thing is to install soap into Centos

yum install php-soap

Second, see if the soap package exist or not

yum search php-soap

third, thus you must see some result of soap package you installed, now type a command in your terminal in the root folder for searching the location of soap for specific path

find -name soap.so

fourth, you will see the exact path where its installed/located, simply copy the path and find the php.ini to add the extension path,

usually the path of php.ini file in centos 6 is in

/etc/php.ini

fifth, add a line of code from below into php.ini file

extension='/usr/lib/php/modules/soap.so'

and then save the file and exit.

sixth run apache restart command in Centos. I think there is two command that can restart your apache ( whichever is easier for you )

service httpd restart

OR

apachectl restart

Lastly, check phpinfo() output in browser, you should see SOAP section where SOAP CLIENT, SOAP SERVER etc are listed and shown Enabled.