PHP cannot find MongoDB driver

Question

On my Ubuntu 12.04 installation I install PHP5 (5.5) from the ondej package. Everything works ok with the PHP, Apache and MySQL, I also successfully install Mongo daemom and

Answer 1

I can give you my build recipe from a fresh 12.04 installation. Fresh being simply running through the configuration and only selecting the "SSH server" option at the end for convenience.

MongoDB installation is optional, so if you want this on a different server then skip. But the general instructions come from:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

All commands split up and not automated so you can see the steps:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10
echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mongodb-10gen
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install php5-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo pecl install mongo

Lots of compiler output. Ending with success and asking to mofidy php.ini

Edit the CLI settings. And do the same for the apache config as well

sudo vi /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Personal preference, after the comments on 'Dynamic Extensions'

extension=mongo.so

Test that usage and connection does not throw an error. Create test.php:

 500, 'socketTimeoutMS' => 500 ));

?>

And run from command line:

php test.php

No errors. Then you are all set up.

$ php -v
PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.1 (cli) (built: Dec 12 2013 04:24:35)
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