CentOS 7 Can’t Install PHP Module – Troubleshooting Guide

Your custom-compiled PHP should have installed pecl, and configured it properly.

Have you tried running "pecl install apc"?

If your system is not finding pecl, it's probable that you used some funny --prefix when you ./configure'd PHP.

For instance, if you compiled php like this:

$ ./configure --prefix=/foo
$ make
# make install

then you'll either want to get /foo/bin into $PATH, or you could just run

$ /foo/bin/pecl install apc

EDIT: Now I remember: try pecl install apc-beta. Something is screwy with 5.3.3 and non-beta APC. My experience is apc-beta works fine.

Well, since there's no feedback I'll post a way that I use. If you're on a Red Hat/CentOS then I've had good experience using the EPEL and IUS Community Project packages.

#EPEL
wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/x86_64/epel-release-1-1.ius.el5.noarch.rpm
#IUS Community Project
wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm
#Install repos
rpm -Uvh epel-release-1-1.ius.el5.noarch.rpm ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm

The PHP packages are prefixed with php52 or php53 if you want either of them. There's also APC and Fileinfo packages. You should use PHP 5.3 if you can and Fileinfo is bundled into it. Installing a base PHP with APC is simple:

yum install php53-pecl-apc

View the other modules if you need to install others like PDO, suhosin, soap, etc.:

yum list php53*