Add a PHP Library

Editing a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d changes the overall system configuration, which is not compatible with the alwaysdata infrastructure.

There are two solutions:

  • set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which would then be set to /home/[account]/[library]1. It can be complex to ensure that it is defined in all cases.

  • modify directly in the .so file the path of the rpath, with the command :

$ chrpath -r /home/[account]/[library]/ ~/[library]/[library].so

Each time this file is loaded, the /home/[account]/[library]/ directory will be used to resolve dependencies.

It only remains to add the path to the .so in the php.ini via the Environment menu (or in Web > Sites in the case of a custom php.ini).

  1. [account] and [library] to be replace by their names. ↩︎