How to enable SOAP on CentOS

Question

We have VPS with CentOS. I have installed SOAp using the following command:

$ yum install php-soap

Then I went to the php.ini file to uncomment the SOAP extension. It was not there, so I added the following line:

extension=soap.so

Then I restarted the server by running

$ service httpd restart

But SOAP is still not enabled. I get the Fatal error: Class 'SoapClient' message.

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 reconfigure 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

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.