AWS Elastic Beanstalk Installing Zip

Question

I am using PHP 7.1 on an Elastic Beanstalk Laravel app. In my app I am using a library that requires the PHP Zip extension enabled. I have tried many ways to install the extension using Yum. I have tried

yum install php-zip
yum install php71-php-pecl-zip

but nothing seems to work. What how am I meant to install these items into an Elastic Beanstalk app?

Answer 1

First try dnf search or yum search to look up the exact name of the package. After installing, make sure the extension is loaded with php -m . You can load the extension by adding this line to your php.ini file:

extension=zip

Make sure you are adding it to the correct php.ini file since some servers use a separate path for Php under Apache and Php under CLI.