Install PHP 7 Stats on Centos 7

Posted on December 19, 2018  •  1 minutes  • 135 words  •  Suggest Changes

I installed PHP 7.1 through webtatic, except with Apache instead of Nginx, so not the -fpm.  Installing PHP stats package is easy, if you know how, so follow along.

First we need to provide our system with a compiler, and the pear package which contains pecl (yum whatprovides pecl)

yum install gcc php71w-pear

After that you can run pecl to install it :

pecl install stats

This will however fail, and tell you you need a PHP 5.* version … however if you specify the latest version it wil just install fine :

pecl install stats-2.0.3

And bam, installed. Now we need to activate it in the PHP config :  (new file, or else /etc/php.ini)

nano /etc/php.d/stats.ini

add :

extension=stats.so

After that, just restart apache and you are good to go :

systemctl restart httpd