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How to Install OCi8 extension within PHP and Apache



Necessity is the mother of Invention ( * googling ).

I get to know this how to install oci8 from various blogs and forums, hence consolidated all the points from different blogs and forums, so that you don't have to look for it.

Oracle extension has a dependency of Oracle Client Packages.

Download the oracle client packages from Oracle Offcl website


I have downloaded the below mentioned packages

oracle-instantclient12.1-basic-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
oracle-instantclient12.1-basiclite-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
oracle-instantclient12.1-devel-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
oracle-instantclient12.1-odbc-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
oracle-instantclient12.1-sqlplus-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

Ignore the package conflicts between old and new, hence use U with rpm

# rpm -Uvh oracle-instantclient12.1-basic-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh  oracle-instantclient12.1-basic-12.1.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

Same way, install the remaining packages too.

Once done, confirm the ORACLE_HOME as it will be required for oci8 installation

# echo $ORACLE_HOME

If it shows the old versions path as 10.1 or 9.01 path or any other, atleast for the installation we have to set the path temporarily to new location where Oracle client package exists

Set environment variable temporarily for Oracle clinet 12 version

# export ORACLE_HOME="/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/"

Verify using command

# echo $ORACLE_HOME

It must show  /usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/

-* It might be even required to set the set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib


*** Remember it is temporary environment variable not permanent, once user exits from the terminal it will show the permanent path

You can set the permanent path in bash environment files.

Installation of oci8 package from PECL.
Now Download the oci8 packages from Pecl official website


Remember, you must download the linux package with an extension of tgz else pecl will not recognize the package provided to it for installation.


Run the last command to install and enable oci8 extension.
# pecl install  oci8-2.0.5.tgz 

If the installation completed successfully, locate your php.ini and add the following line.

extension=oci8.so

#locate php.ini

In my case, i found it within /usr/local/lib/php.ini, run the below command to add the above line

# echo "extension=oci8.so" >>  php.ini

That’s it !!! Enough

But for me, it was not even enough for the installation I got some additional errors as

checking Oracle ORACLE_HOME install directory... /usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib/
checking ORACLE_HOME library validity... configure: error: Expected an ORACLE_HOME top level directory but /usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib/ appears to be an Instant Client directory. Try --with-oci8=instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib/
ERROR: `/var/tmp/oci8/configure --with-oci8=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib/' failed

Here is the fix for it, again a temporary path for PECL

# echo "instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib" | pecl install oci8-2.0.5.tgz

Here I just passed , what it is asking for :)

Confirm the same, using phpinfo.php page you must get a category of oci8 extension like the below mentioned screenshot.



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