After updating my server from testing to Squeeze it suddenly crashed after running a high CPU % perl script.
Being unresponsive I reset the machine to reboot it.
After booting up and testing websites running on it I came along an odd PHP error;
Call to undefined function http_post_data()
Probably due to PHP updates from Lenny/testing to Squeeze.
This error is caused by not having installed PECL-HTTP (and php-pear php5-dev libcurl3-openssl-dev)
However, PECL-HTTP had been installed for ages and running the pecl install command resulted in this:
# pecl install pecl_http pecl/pecl_http is already installed and is the same as the released version 1.7.0 install failed
Some quick Googling didn’t come up with a simple fix.
I then tried to reinstall PECL-HTTP (by uninstalling and reinstalling it)
# pecl uninstall pecl_http Unable to remove "extension=http.so" from php.ini uninstall ok: channel://pecl.php.net/pecl_http-1.7.0 # pecl install pecl_http downloading pecl_http-1.7.0.tgz ... Starting to download pecl_http-1.7.0.tgz (173,979 bytes) [...]
Which luckily did solve my issue…
So reinstalling does actually solve stuff on Linux 😡
Be sure to have extension=http.so in your php.ini and to restart php if it’s running with fastcgi or restarting Apache after making the changes.
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