solr php extension fails to run on newest Debian Wheezy

Question

I'm trying to use the Solr PHP extension on the recently-upgraded Debian Wheezy. It installs both from PECL and from sources flawlessly but instead of giving me expected functionality it gives me this on every PHP run:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 
'/usr/lib/php5/20100525/solr.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20100525/solr.so: 
undefined symbol: curl_easy_getinfo in Unknown on line 0

Also scripts which use the extension throws an error

PHP Error[2]: include(SolrClient.php): failed to open stream: 
No such file or directory in file <...path to my autoloader...>

My main point is that it was set up before and worked like a charm. In the upgrade among the relevant packages only the versions of PHP and libcurl was changed. Instance of Solr itself was left as is.

I have all possible libcurl libraries:

$ locate libcurl
...
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.3
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.4
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.4.2.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.a
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.la
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.3
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4.2.0
...
/usr/lib32/libcurl.so.3
/usr/lib32/libcurl.so.4
/usr/lib32/libcurl.so.4.2.0
...

I have instaled the php5-curl package version 5.4.4-2 with aptitude.

I installed the Sorl extensions both with

sudo pecl install solr

(with various combinations of -f and -n flags and tried solr-beta too) and with

wget ...
cd ...
phpize
./configure
make 
make install

I'm installing the 1.0.2 version of extension because it worked before the upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy. As I said earlier, extension installs without any errors.

I have already added the extension=solr.so incantation to the /etc/php5/mods-available/solr.ini

What magic should I do to make solr extension work? Is this true that the only solution that I have is to downgrade the libcurl version as it was before the upgrade?

Answer 1

OK, I found the answer myself. Problem was in the errors in configuration. On newest Wheezy the config tree for PHP is as follows:

/etc/php5/mods-available/*.ini # here's the ini files containing `extension=modulename.so` lines and module-specific config.
         /conf.d/NN-*.ini      # here's the symlinks to real .ini files in mods-available
         /cli/conf.d           # symlink from local CLI conf.d to global conf.d 
         /apache/conf.d        # symlink from local apache conf.d to global conf.d

So I needed to do the following things:

• Add a file /etc/php5/mods-available/solr.ini with the line "extension=solr.so"
• Add a symlink /etc/php5/conf.d/30-solr.ini pointing to real solr.ini
• Do the same thing to curl.so
• Ensure that the "extension=solr.so" and "extension=curl.so" is not written anywhere else. That was the cause of this strange error message.

I think that the config become messy because of recent upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, because all of this configuration set-up should be really done by the package manager.

Answer 2

I was having the same problem with the same error.

FWIW - What worked for me was moving "extension=solr.so" from the top of my php.ini file to the bottom - obviously order is important and the curl extension need to be pulled in first.

Hope it helps someone.

Answer 3

For anyone under CentOS 6.4, this did it for me. Thanks to hijarian, this is an adaptation of his answer.

After installing everything and compiling the solr.so extension make a new solr.ini file under /etc/php.d

Using nano, for instance: nano /etc/php.d/solr.ini

Add a line to that file containing extension=solr.so, save and exit.

Open /usr/php.ini file and add extension=solr.so to it also, save and exit.

Restart apache...

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

and you should be all done!

Answer 4

curl module must be loaded BEFORE solr module. So, make shure you have something like this in conf.d : 20-curl.ini 30-solr.ini (and not 10-solr.ini)

Or juste add "extension=solr.so" after your "extension=curl.so"