title: Installing PHP Zip Extension
body: <p>I'm attempting to install the PHP Zip extension.  </p>
  
  <p>My server does not have external internet access, so I downloaded it myself from PECL: <a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/zip" rel="noreferrer">http://pecl.php.net/package/zip</a>.  I chose 1.10.2, the latest "stable" release, and transferred it to my server.</p>
  
  <p>I ran:</p>
  
  <pre><code>pear install zip-1.10.2.tgz
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and added </p>
  
  <pre><code>extension=zip.so
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to php.ini as instructed.  I can see that zip.so was created and placed in the right extension_dir folder as well.  I restarted apache and then checked to see if it was loaded by running: </p>
  
  <pre><code>php -m
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Despite all of this, "zip" is still not in that list.</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing a step or doing something wrong?  I thought this should be really simple, and I'm starting to feel pretty dumb, haha.</p>
  
  <p>Other probably important stuff:</p>
  
  <p>CentOS
  Apache 2.2.3
  PHP 5.2.16</p>