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Installing Phalcon 1.3.x on Linux Mint 17

Hi there,

I recently discovered phalcon and I want to use it for my BA-exam (devel. a software). Installing it in a Windows XAMPP-Server is easy going. But I develop under Linux Mint 17. So I just followed the instructions at the download-section and everything is fine.

Before I installed all required software, apache2, mysql and php5 are running.

I inserted "extension=phalcon.so" to "/etc/php5/cli/php.ini" and restarted the apache2. But the extension wasn't loaded - output of phpinfo(); So I inserted "extension=phalcon.so" also to "/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini" and restarted apache2. But the extension wasn't loaded, too.

Now I need your help. Where is the mistake?

It's a new and clean Mint 17 - Installation (running in VirtualBox). Only installed Oracles Java SDK and Netbeans 8.

Thanks for your help!



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Check in Linux

sudo find /usr -name 'phalcon.so'


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What instructions did you follow to install Phalcon itself? Can you confirm the phalcon.so is present between the other php modules?



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Thanks alot for the fast answers! (Y)

Here is the doc I followed: https://phalcon.io/en/download

Here is what the result of 'find': /usr/lib/php5/20121212/phalcon.so



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And what does your phpinfo say about:

  • extension_dir
  • Loaded Configuration File

?



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extension_dir is "/usr/lib/php5/20121212"

Loaded Configuration File is "/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini"

and in there I've inserted right before the "module-section": extension=phalcon.so

(and so I did it for "/etc/php5/cli/php.ini")



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edited Jun '14

Any errors in your Apache/PHP error log?

edit: and make sure phalcon.so gets loaded after pdo.

I don't know what you mean with 'module-section'. How are the other extensions loaded? Are those entries in the main php.ini, or via separate .ini files? (check Scan this dir for additional .ini files in phpinfo)



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It's a classic issue by now :). Remove the extension line from php.ini. Instead, create a new file: /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/30-phalcon.ini and place there: extension=phalcon.so



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thanks a lot!

will give it a try, but for now, I've just installed an old win xp in a vm. I need to get used to phalcon-programming and not installing right now ... O:)

And it's so awesome easy. Will now take a closer look to Volt-Bootstrap-Interaction.



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Ok, cool. You can mark it solved then (accept your own answer) ;)