Source: http://www.syahzul.com/2016/04/06/how-to-install-oci8-on-ubuntu-14-04-and-php-5-6/
Download the Oracle Instant Client and SDK from Oracle website. (Need to login in Oracle page)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linuxx86-64soft-092277.html
Files: instantclient-basic-linux.x64-11.2.0.4.0.zip
and instantclient-sdk-linux.x64-11.2.0.4.0.zip
.
Create a new folder to store Oracle Instant Client zip files on your server.
Upload the Instant Clients files inside this folder.
mkdir /opt/oracle
Now we need to extract the files.
cd /opt/oracle
unzip instantclient-basic-linux.x64-11.2.0.4.0.zip
unzip instantclient-sdk-linux.x64-11.2.0.4.0.zip
Next, we need to create a symlink to Instant Client files.
ln -s /opt/oracle/instantclient_11_2/libclntsh.so.11.1 /opt/oracle/instantclient_11_2/libclntsh.so
ln -s /opt/oracle/instantclient_11_2/libocci.so.11.1 /opt/oracle/instantclient_11_2/libocci.so
Add the folder to our ldconfig
.
echo /opt/oracle/instantclient_11_2 > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle-instantclient
Update the Dynamic Linker Run-Time Bindings
ldconfig
Done. Now we can proceed to the next part.
To install the OCI8 extension, we need to install some additional package on our server.
Run these command:
apt-get install php-dev php-pear build-essential libaio1
Once installed, we need to get the OCI8 file.
pecl install oci8
When you are prompted for the Instant Client location, enter the following:
instantclient,/opt/oracle/instantclient_11_2
We need to tell PHP to load the OCI8 extension.
echo "extension = oci8.so" >> /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
Check if the extension is enabled.
php -m | grep 'oci8'
If returns oci8
, its works!
Add the following lines to /etc/apache2/envvars
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/oracle/instantclient_11_2
export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/instantclient_11_2
Restart the Apache
service apache2 restart
Now you can connect to Oracle DBMS from your PHP applications.