How to enable LDAP extension for PHP in Ubuntu

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Solution 1

sudo apt-get install php-ldap

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

@baig772 answered their own question but they didn't post it as an answer.

Solution 2

you need to restart your apache (systemctl restart apache2). Apache has its very own single php-process running*. The php-configuration is only reload if apache restarts this process. You can check your active configuration with phpinfo

* this is very simplified and depends on the apache MPM-Module you are using.

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Updated on June 17, 2022

Comments

baig772 almost 2 years
I am trying to enable LDAP for PHP5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04. I have tried the following steps
```
 - sudo apt-get install php5-ldap
 - sudo enmod ldap
 - sudo php5enmod ldap 
```
but still I am unable to get my ldap related functions working with PHP
- Rathan Naik over 6 years
  
  Are you getting any errors ?
- baig772 over 6 years
  
  Yes, Fatal Error: Call to an undefined function ldap_connect
- baig772 over 6 years
  
  Yes, Fatal Error: Call to an undefined function ldap_connect
- Rathan Naik over 6 years
  
  Does sudo apt-get install php5-ldap install successfully ? @baig772
- baig772 over 6 years
  
  it said unable to locate php5-ldap but i did sudo apt-get install php-ldap and it worked
- Rathan Naik over 6 years
  
  Did you restart apache ? /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
- baig772 over 6 years
  
  Let us continue this discussion in chat.
- CodeConnoisseur over 4 years
  
  I ran sudo apt-get install php5.6-ldap to get it for a specific php version then restarted apache and it worked (Ubuntu 18.04)
baig772 over 6 years

I think this should be in comments sections. It is quite obvious that one always restarts the apache whenever apache or php related installation is done
blaimi over 6 years

OT: I'm currently collecting reputation points by answering questions to get the 'comment everywhere'-permission …