Question How to enable php-xmlrpc on my server

[alexislevrai]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Plesk version and microupdate number

Obsidian 18.0.60

Hello,

I want to connect to the API of my inventory system, for that I need to use Ripcord (an XML-RPC Client and Server for PHP GitHub - poef/ripcord: Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/ripcord) .
I'm on PHP 8.2 but it looks like php-xmlrpc is not enable.

I've tried to create an .htaccess with

<Files xmlrpc.php> order allow,deny allow from all </Files>

But doesn't look like it's still not working
Is there a way to enable it via Plesk ?

 

[scsa20]

Tools & Settings > PHP Settings > Select the PHP package you're using (8.2.x FPM application, 8.2.x FastCGI application, or whatever), click Manage PECL Packages, search for xmlrpc, click on the plus icon and click install package, then make sure to tick it on.

See the following for more info:

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15233115709463-How-to-install-PECL-packages-in-Plesk

 

[alexislevrai]

Hello,

I've tried this but there is a xmlreader, an xmlwriter but not RPC when I do Manage PECL Packages and want to add one I only found XMLRPCi, what is (from my research) an improve version of XMLRPC but that never left the beta level …
And even if I try to install it I'm facing this error :

Failed to install PHP extension 'XMLRPCi':
Failed to download pecl/XMLRPCi within preferred state "stable", latest release is version 1.0, stability "beta", use "channel://pecl.php.net/XMLRPCi-1.0" to install
install failed

 

[Chad Reitsma]

Running into the same issue.

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

Hello, guys. According to PHP's official documentation:

The extension is unbundled from php-src as of PHP 8.0.0, because the underlying
libxmlrpc has obviously been abandoned. It is recommended to reevaluate using
this extension.

The "xmlrpc" package has also been officially moved to experimental status, so you'd need to use a custom experimental sources to install this. In general, it's not recommended to use this tool as it hasn't been updated in several years and may not be compatible with modern PHP versions. You can install it at your own risk. Here are the steps you can try, but we cannot guarantee that will work:

1. Install php82-dev package for php shipped by Plesk:
   

   apt install libxml2-dev plesk-php82-dev gcc make pkg-config

2. Install xmlrpc module:
   

   /opt/plesk/php/8.2/bin/pecl install -f xmlrpc

3. Set appropriate permissions for .so file:
   

   chmod 755 /opt/plesk/php/8.2/lib/php/modules/xmlrpc.so

4. Manually enable module:
   

   echo "extension=xmlrpc.so" > /opt/plesk/php/8.2/etc/php.d/xmlrpc.ini

5. Check that the module is enabled, the output should be like below:
   

   /opt/plesk/php/8.2/bin/php -m | grep xmlrpc

6. Reread php handlers to make the module visible in Plesk:
   

   /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/php_handlers_control --reread