PHP ENV and HTTP Extension

PHP ENV and HTTP Extension

We keep having issues with http.so and iconv.so and others. So at first, we try to fix that in this way.
The Dockerfile is as following:
#Prepre the OS
FROM            centos:7
MAINTAINER      Carl Luo <[e-mail]>

ENV             DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
ENV             PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT 1
ENV AWS_PHP_CACHE_DIR /tmp/awscache

RUN             yum install -y gcc make
RUN             yum install -y mysql-devel
RUN             yum install -y openssh-clients
RUN             yum install -y unzip
RUN             mkdir /install/
WORKDIR         /install/

#install wget
RUN             yum install -y gnutls-devel
RUN             curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.18.tar.gz
RUN             tar zxvf wget-1.18.tar.gz
WORKDIR         /install/wget-1.18
RUN             ./configure
RUN             make && make install
WORKDIR         /install/

#install php5.6
RUN             rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
RUN             rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
RUN             rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
RUN             yum install -y php56w
RUN             yum install -y php56w-xml
RUN             yum install -y php56w-mysqlnd
RUN             yum install -y php56w-devel
RUN             yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php56 install -y php-pear

RUN             yum install -y php56-php-raphf

#set up php
ADD             conf/php.ini /etc/php.ini
ADD conf/20-iconv.ini /etc/php.d/20-iconv.ini
RUN             echo "usr/\n" | pecl install pecl_http-2.6.0

The content of 20-iconv.ini is as follow:
; Enable iconv extension module
;extension=iconv.so

In php.ini, I have some configuration as follow:
extension=iconv.so
extension=raphf.so
extension=propro.so
extension=http.so

which I do not like, because the steps in 20-iconv.ini is ugly. And also my colleague who use PHP for years told me “php56w, Presumably the 'w' stands for 'webtatic', to differentiate these packages from the official CentOS ones."

So I am trying to do php56 instead of php56w. Finally we found a better way as follow.

Here is the Dockerfile:
#Prepre the OS
FROM            centos:7
MAINTAINER      Carl Luo <[e-mail]>

ENV             DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
ENV             PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT 1
ENV AWS_PHP_CACHE_DIR /tmp/awscache

RUN             yum install -y gcc make wget
RUN             yum install -y mysql-devel
RUN             mkdir /install/
WORKDIR         /install/

#install php5.6
RUN  rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
RUN             rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
ADD             conf/remi.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
RUN          yum install -y php
RUN             yum install -y php-xml
RUN             yum install -y php-mysqlnd
RUN             yum install -y php-common
RUN             yum install -y php-devel

RUN             yum install -y php-raphf
RUN     yum install -y php-pecl-http

The remi.repo file is follow, the only changes are that I enabled remi and remi-php56
# Repository: http://rpms.remirepo.net/
# Blog:       http://blog.remirepo.net/
# Forum:      http://forum.remirepo.net/

[remi]
name=Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/remi/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/remi/mirror
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

[remi-php55]
name=Remi's PHP 5.5 RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/php55/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/php55/mirror
# NOTICE: common dependencies are in "remi-safe"
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

[remi-php56]
name=Remi's PHP 5.6 RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/php56/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/php56/mirror
# NOTICE: common dependencies are in "remi-safe"
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

[remi-test]
name=Remi's test RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/test/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/test/mirror
# WARNING: If you enable this repository, you must also enable "remi"
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

[remi-debuginfo]
name=Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch - debuginfo
baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/debug-remi/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

[remi-php55-debuginfo]
name=Remi's PHP 5.5 RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch - debuginfo
baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/debug-php55/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

[remi-php56-debuginfo]
name=Remi's PHP 5.6 RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch - debuginfo
baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/debug-php56/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

[remi-test-debuginfo]
name=Remi's test RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch - debuginfo
baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/debug-test/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

That’s it. We do not need php.ini configuration or iconv.ini.

References:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-install-php-5-6-on-centos-7-0-x64