Installing MongoDB driver for PHP Ubuntu Server 12.04

This article is about connecting PHP with MongoDB.

Before you start, make sure you have apache2 and PHP5+ installed in your server:

$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5

You will also need to install some dependencies for the driver. Do it this way:

$ sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-dev

Okay, let's find this driver!

$ pecl search mongo

And install it:

$ sudo pecl install mongo

If you wouldn't have the make package installed, install and reinstall mongo:

$ sudo apt-get install make
$ sudo pecl install mongo

Now, let's hack that php.ini too, located at /etc/php5/apache2/ path. Do that by adding mongo.so extension somewhere after the extensions part:

$ sudo vim /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

extension = mongo.so

Since I have run my database server on a separate MongoDB server, I have also changed to path to the database for the extension. I have added the following lines after MySQL block:

[Mongo]
; default host 127.0.0.1
; custom host: the IP address of the database server
mongo.default_host = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

Further infos at in the PHP - MongoDB documentation.