How to Enable --Enable-Soap in PHP on Linux

How do I enable --enable-soap in php on linux?

Getting SOAP working usually does not require compiling PHP from source. I would recommend trying that only as a last option.

For good measure, check to see what your phpinfo says, if anything, about SOAP extensions:

$ php -i | grep -i soap

to ensure that it is the PHP extension that is missing.

Assuming you do not see anything about SOAP in the phpinfo, see what PHP SOAP packages might be available to you.

In Ubuntu/Debian you can search with:

$ apt-cache search php | grep -i soap

or in RHEL/Fedora you can search with:

$ yum search php | grep -i soap

There are usually two PHP SOAP packages available to you, usually php-soap and php-nusoap. php-soap is typically what you get with configuring PHP with --enable-soap.

In Ubuntu/Debian you can install with:

$ sudo apt-get install php-soap

Or in RHEL/Fedora you can install with:

$ sudo yum install php-soap

After the installation, you might need to place an ini file and restart Apache.

enable SOAP on PHP

You may need to make sure the PHP SOAP package is installed. Try running yum install php-soap as root.

Edit: Adapted from this excellent answer to a similar question:

run this:

yum --enablerepo=webtatic install php-soap

this tells yum to get the packages from webtatic repository (in addition to system configured repositories). If you want webtatic among system enabled repositories, run:

rpm --import http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-webtatic-andy
yum --enablerepo=webtatic install  webtatic-release

How do I install soap extension?

For Windows

1. Find extension=php_soap.dll or extension=soap in php.ini and remove the commenting semicolon at the beginning of the line. Eventually check for soap.ini under the conf.d directory.

2. Restart your server.

For Linux

Ubuntu:

PHP7

Apache

sudo apt-get install php7.0-soap 
sudo systemctl restart apache2

PHP5

sudo apt-get install php-soap
sudo systemctl restart apache2

OpenSuse:

PHP7

Apache

sudo zypper in php7-soap
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Nginx

sudo zypper in php7-soap
sudo systemctl restart nginx

Enable soap for php in docker container

You will need to install libxml2-dev as part of your dockerfile, the image is kept to a minimum and doesn't include all of the bits needed by every module. Although the image may have the main package, the -dev package includes the components needed to compile other modules which rely on it...

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y libxml2-dev

(From https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/315)

Just to make it clear - the command

RUN docker-php-ext-install soap

will then run successfully to install the soap library.

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