SSH2 for PHP7 MacOS?

macos ssh pecl php-7.1 ssh2-sftp

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Solution 1

I finally found a solution on MacOS Mohave. I have PHP 7.3 installed by Homebrew:

brew install php
brew install libssh2

Install development version of ssh2 pecl extension from the latest sources:

cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://git.php.net/repository/pecl/networking/ssh2.git
cd ssh2
phpize
./configure
make
make install

Enable extension in php.ini. You can use TextEdit:

open -e /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/php.ini

Add extension="ssh2.so" to the beginning of the file and save.

Test the result:

php -i | grep libssh2

You should see

libssh2 version => 1.9.0

Solution 2

I managed to install php-ssh2 on MacOS High Sierra.

First I had to install libssh2, in order for PECL to compile the extension.

I used brew, however most likely libssh2 is available from mac ports also.

brew install libssh2

and then

pecl install ssh2-1.1.2

I have the Xcode command line tools (already) installed - which I assume was needed to compile the extension.

Solution 3

Try this:

pecl install ssh2-1.1.2

You can see available versions for ssh2 HERE

For those using alpine linux, make sure to add libssh2-dev first:

apk --update add libssh2-dev

Solution 4

On macOS Big Sur:

brew install libssh2
pecl install ssh2-1.2

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Oman

Updated on July 21, 2022

Comments

Oman almost 2 years
When trying to use
```
ssh2_sftp($this->con);
```
PHP 7.1.7 thinks Im looking for a function in the class. After some reading, I found that SSH2 needs to be installed from PECL ( http://php.net/manual/en/wrappers.ssh2.php )

When I went to do that, I got the following error:
```
pecl/ssh2 requires PHP (version >= 4.0.0, version <= 6.0.0), installed version is 7.1.7
No valid packages found
install failed
```
Anyone have any ideas on how to get this to run on MacOs 10.13.3 (17D47) with PHP 7.1.7? Thanks in advance!
mcgregor94086 almost 5 years

I tried this on a Mac running Mojave, and I got this error on "pecl install ssh2-1.1.2": No releases available for package "pecl.php.net/ssh2" install failed
Peter Knut over 4 years

I tried on Mohave. Instalelled libssh2 1.9.0 without any problems. Than pecl installation failed with 17 warnings and 3 errors. It looks like incompatibility between libssh2 and pecl extension.
Collegeman over 4 years

This is the one that works for me! Thank you so much for posting this answer.
guice over 4 years

+1 on this. It'll install ssh2 version 1.8.0. Thanks! You just unblocked our company's php7.3 update. :)
Haseeb Zulfiqar over 4 years

any luck so far?
Erik Pöhler over 4 years

worked for me. libssh2 was pulled in v1.9.0.1 from brew but pecl install only worked with ssh2-1.2
Blake Frederick about 4 years

This worked for me on macOS Catalina (10.15.2). Slight modification - I did pecl install ssh2-1.2.
Thomas about 2 years

the new location for ssh2 (march 2022) is github.com/php/pecl-networking-ssh2.git