I spent the good part of the day installing and updating the FrakMedia! Network Servers with PHP 5.3.0. That also including updating all the other sites that are on the server, but one of the more important things for me here on this site is WordPress and the ability to use SSH2 as the transfer protocol for plugins, core, and themes.

PECL by default if you were trying the ‘pecl install ssh2-beta‘ command you get an error message saying that it doesn’t work. Duh!

But as usual the system was broken. So it took now ~12 hours for me to find and get it fixed. However, I had to do some heavy searching in order get it to work and I am going to give it out right now on how to get it working!

The server is running RedHat (and Apache of course…). This shouldn’t matter since PHP is platform independent. So first thing is first…

mkdir ssh2-build
cd ssh2-build
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/ssh2-0.11.0.tgz
tar -zxvf ssh2-0.11.0.tgz

This will create something like this:

ssh2-build/package.xml
ssh2-build/<ssh2-0.11.0> (Directory)