php not reading/loading extension

[haku]

I have a PHP extension (memcached) that I cannot get to load.

 

In php_info(), I see this:

Configuration File (php.ini) Path File (php.ini) Path: /usr/lib

 

I have edited /usr/lib/php.ini and added the following line:

extension=memcached.so

 

My extension_dir (from php_info()) is:

/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613

 

and when I execute:

ls -l /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613

 

I can see this line:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127313 Apr  8 05:14 memcached.so*

 

So, it appears that I have the right directive in php.ini, in the proper php.ini, and the extension is in the proper extensions directory, with a permission level that should let it be run (it's the same as the other modules in the directory), yet I cannot get memcached to show up on php_info() whatsoever. I'm new to installing extensions, so I have no idea why it's not working. I've restarted the server (using apachectl -k restart) but that doesn't help.

 

Any ideas?

[betterphp]

I think it should be

 

extension = "memcached.so"

 

but if you are not getting start-up errors that its obviously fine the way you have it.

 

Everything looks right as you say, does the -k you pass to apache2ctl mean graceful reload ? if so you need to not do that.

 

I usually call the init.d script directly to restart

 

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

 

although if you are restarting the server then it should be fine.

 

If you try somethign from the command line like

 

php phpinfo.php

 

where phpinfo.php is just a file that does phpinfo()

 

you might get an explanation as to why its not loading.

[haku]

Thanks for the thoughts - I have tried writing the extension with quotes, but it didn't work, and none of the other extensions (that actually work) are written with quotes.

 

I've got php_info() on the server, but it has no reference to memcached one way or another.

 

Thanks for the thoughts though.

[betterphp]

what about trying php from the shell ? That is most likely to tell you why the module cannot be loaded.

[haku]

How do I do that? I'm actually having the same issue rise again with a different PHP module.

[haku]

Interesting. I've found that I can enable the extension by adding the directive to my local php.ini for the site, but the directive added to the master php.ini (location confirmed in phpinfo()) doesn't work.

 

Strange.

[betterphp]

How do I do that? I'm actually having the same issue rise again with a different PHP module.

 

you would run

 

php -r "echo 'test';"

at a terminal prompt.

 

Sorry for not getting back to you for so long