Centos7 php7.4 manually install php fileinfo extension

existCentos7If you want to install the fileinfo extension of php7.4, first download the tarball. If you installed PHP using yum, you can use yum to install the extension.

wget https://www.php.net/distributions/php-7.4.3.tar.gz

Unzip your PHP tarball. If you don't have it, download the tarball of the same version.

tar -zxvf php-7.4.3.tar.gz

Enter the fileinfo directory

cd php-7.4.3/ext/fileinfo

Call phpize to generate a compilation configuration file

/usr/local/php/bin/phpize

Compile extension library

./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/php/bin/php-config

Install

make && make install

Add the extension to the configuration file

vi /usr/local/php/etc/php.ini

Add the extension in php.ini:

extension=fileinfo.so

Restart PHP

service php-fpm restart