azure web app - wordpress

Question

Hello i am trying to deploy WordPress website and 1 of my requirements is to have php addons. like php lnl to support multilanguage after installing the webapp, seems like its unable to install anything inside. otherwise i am doing it wrong,

Answer 1

@Yash Thanks for reaching here! If I have understood right you want to install PHP extensions on the WordPress Linux App Services.
If so please follow below steps:

1. Open an SSH session using WebSSH from the Azure portal. Find out the PHP version of your WordPress image using the below command.

php -v

2. Install soap extension for PHP. Note: Depending on the version of the PHP, the name of the package needs to be updated accordingly. Additionally, you can use the Alpine Linux Packages dashboard to search for your required PHP extensions. You can make use of wildcards (* and ?) in the search.

 apk update

 apk add php8-soap

3. For PHP 8, the extensions will be installed under /usr/lib/php8/modules/. If you are not able to find it, you can make use of find command to locate the extension file.

cd /

find . -name 'soap.so'

4. Now that the extension is installed, you need to create an ext directory under /home/site/ and copy the extension file to it. This is because changes made outside /home path are non-persistent in nature and will be reset to the default state when the container is restarted.

 mkdir -p /home/site/ext

 cp /usr/lib/php8/modules/soap.so /home/site/ext/soap.so

5. Then we need to create a extensions.ini file under /home/site/ini directory and add the extension configuration to it.

mkdir -p /home/site/ini

 echo 'extension=/home/site/ext/soap.so' >> /home/site/ini/extensions.ini

6.  Go to your App Service in Azure Portal and add the following Application Settings. You will find Application Settings under Settings -> Configurations blade. Once the below settings are added, click on save. This will restart your Web App and new changes should be reflected. Application setting name: PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR Value: /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d:/home/site/ini Reference document: https://github.com/Azure/wordpress-linux-appservice/blob/main/WordPress/wordpress_adding_php_extensions.md Also see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure-language-php?pivots=platform-linux#enable-php-extensions Please let us know if further query or issue remains.

Answer 2

I don't know if that worked for the OP but this doesn't work. The Wordpress Web App has no retention whatsoever. I have tried everything from startup scripts -so the intl module I want be installed on startup- to everything on every guide or post there is. Does anyone have any other solution?