Install mongodb php driver on mediatemple dv 4.0

Question

By following the official instructions http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart+Unix and this post http://blog.phy5ics.com/2010/03/27/installing-mongodb-on-mediatemple-dv/ I've just about managed to get mongodb installed on MediaTemples DV 4.0 server (I think).

I am however having problems installing the PHP driver http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/PHP+Language+Center

In SSH I get this:

[root@xxx]# cd /var/tmp
[root@xxx]# pecl install mongo
downloading mongo-1.1.4.tgz ...
Starting to download mongo-1.1.4.tgz (68,924 bytes)
.................done: 68,924 bytes
18 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20090626
Zend Module Api No: 20090626
Zend Extension Api No: 220090626
/usr/bin/phpize: /var/tmp/mongo/build/shtool: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.

ERROR: `phpize' failed

I am logged in as the root user - I don't understand why it's failing and what steps I need to take to install the PHP driver?

Thanks

Answer 1

From media temple support: Need to create a temporary directory (/root/tmpz):

$ mkdir /root/tmpz
$ mount --host /root/tmpz /tmp
$ umount /tmp; umount /var/tmp
$ pecl install mongo

Build complete.
Don't forget to run 'make test'.

running: make INSTALL_ROOT="/var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4" install
Installing shared extensions: /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64/php /modules/
running: find "/var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4" | xargs ls -dils 69094140 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4
69275176 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr
69275177 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64
69290445 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64/php
69290447 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64/php/modules
69290448 676 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 684126 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64/php/modules/mongo.so

Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/lib64/php/modules/mongo.so'
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/mongo-1.1.4
configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
You should add "extension=mongo.so" to php.ini

Answer 2

Do you have php-dev installed? phpize is basically "compiling" the MongoDB driver, but unless you have the -dev installed, this may not work.

Answer 3

Run the following commands on your server's command line:

$ mkdir /root/tmp
$ mount --bind /root/tmp /tmp
$ umount /tmp; umount /var/tmp
$ pecl install mongo

A few things:

• /root/tmp is just an arbitrary temp directory. You can use whatever you want, provided it exists.
• Some instructions say to use --host instead of --bind. On RHEL/CentOS mount says --host is an unrecognized option.
• If you're on a VM, it's likely that you'll have to do this each time you restart your VM/Container.

For Media Temple customers, I can confirm that this works on both (dv) and (ve) servers with CentOS 5 and 6.