Installation

Windows binaries may be found at » http://snaps.php.net/. To install, download php_ssh2.dll to the folder specified by your php.ini file's extension_dir directive. Enable it by adding extension=php_ssh2.dll to your php.ini and restarting your web server.

extension_dir=c:/php5/exts/
extension=php_ssh2.dll

 

Linux, BSD, and other *nix variants can be compiled using the following steps:

• Download and install » OpenSSL. If you install OpenSSL via your distribution's packaging system be sure to install the development libraries as well. This will typically be a package named openssl-dev, openssl_devel, or some variation thereof.
• Download and install » libssh2. Typically this means executing the following command from the libssh2 source tree. ./configure && make all install.
• Run the pear installer for PECL/ssh2: pear install ssh2
• Copy ssh2.so from the directory indicated by the build process to the location specified in your php.ini file under extension_dir.
• Add extension=ssh2.so to your php.ini
• Restart your web server to reload your php.ini settings.

Note: Development Versions
There are currently no stable versions of PECL/ssh2, to force installation of the beta version of PECL/ssh2 execute: pear install ssh2-beta

Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/ssh2.

Note: You will need version 0.4 or greater of the libssh2 library (possibly higher, see release notes).