How To Install php-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-ldap.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. php-ldap.x86_64 is A module for PHP applications that use LDAP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is php-ldap.x86_64

The php-ldap adds Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) support to PHP. LDAP is a set of protocols for accessing directory services over the Internet. PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language.

We can use yum to install php-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install php-ldap.x86_64.

Install php-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install php-ldap.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-ldap.x86_64

How To Uninstall php-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the php-ldap.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove php-ldap.x86_64

php-ldap.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/php.d/ldap.ini
/usr/lib64/php/modules/ldap.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.