Installing RAR Extension on PHP 8.3

One of the app I’m working requires RAR extension on PHP. Unfortunately the latest RAR version doesn’t work on the PHP version installed on my machine (PHP 8.3). Searching the forum for a few minutes gave me this solution:

1. Install php-dev (phpize) if it isn’t installed yet.
2. Get the extension from cataphract

   git clone https://github.com/cataphract/php-rar
   

3. Configure and install

   cd php-rar/
   phpize
   ./configure && make && sudo make install
   

4. Load it to PHP (I’m using PHP-FPM)

   echo '; configuration for php rar extension'|sudo tee -a /etc/php/8.3/mods-available/rar.ini > /dev/null
   echo 'extension=rar.so'|sudo tee -a /etc/php/8.3/mods-available/rar.ini > /dev/null
   sudo ln -s /etc/php/8.3/mods-available/rar.ini /etc/php/8.3/fpm/conf.d/20-rar.ini
   

5. Restart the PHP-FPM

   sudo systemctl restart php8.3-fpm
   

And here is the result:

Notes: I’m using PHP as FPM on NGINX server.