How to Install Tideways on My Custom PHP Installation

All the different Tideways packages install the PHP extension for all supported versions into the /usr/lib/tideways directory. Their post install hooks then try to find as many PHP installations as possible based on common conventions on the distribution.

The goal is to link the extension into your PHP’s extension directory and then add the required minimal php ini configuration and if the installer doesn’t find your PHP installation, you need to perform these steps manually.

Find out where the extension directory of your PHP installation is with the following command:

php -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");'

Then symlink the tideways extension for the correct version to this directory:

ln -sf /usr/lib/tideways/tideways-7.1.so /path/to/my/extension-directory/tideways.so

Lastly, the minimal necessary configuration to load the tideways extension is:

extension=tideways.so

You then need to restart your webserver or php-fpm to make this configuration visible to your PHP process. From here you can continue to configure Tideways.

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