Question

PHP 7.0 - ZipArchive Library is missing or disabled

Posted on February 24, 2016
Nginx LEMP PHP Ubuntu
Asked by sugarhill

After setting up a new 512mb web server droplet using: Ubuntu 14.04 // NGINX // PHP7.0 // MariaDB // Wordpress

I get the following error message using my backup app:

PHP ZipArchive Library is missing or disabled

I never encountered this error before on my other droplets with identical configs so I guess this is a recent change in some package. Strangely plugin via wordpress backend unzip/install works fine.

Does anyone know how to enable this feature with php7.0?

Here are the relevant entries from my php-info file: PHP Version 7.0.3-8+deb.sury.org~trusty+2

Additional .ini files parsed        /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-zlib.ini
Registered PHP Streams	compress.zlib, phar
Registered Stream Filters       zlib.*

ZLib Support	enabled
Stream Wrapper	compress.zlib://
Stream Filter	zlib.inflate, zlib.deflate
Compiled Version	1.2.8
Linked Version	1.2.8
zlib.output_compression	Off	Off
zlib.output_compression_level	-1	-1
zlib.output_handler	no value	no value

I know it says zlib.output_compression Off Off but I have the same setting on another droplet and there it works the only difference on my other droplets is that PHP7 was installed as an upgrade to PHP5 while on my faulty droplet PHP7 was installed not as an update

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KFSys

Site Moderator

• June 12, 2023

Pinned Answer

Heya,

The error message “PHP ZipArchive Library is missing or disabled” means that the PHP ZipArchive extension, which is required by your backup application, is not installed or enabled on your server.

To install and enable this extension, you can run the following command:

sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip

After running this command, you will need to restart your PHP service (which in your case appears to be php-fpm) for the changes to take effect:

sudo service php7.0-fpm restart

If the ZipArchive extension is already installed but just disabled, you can enable it by modifying your php.ini file. You can locate this file using the command:

php --ini

Once you’ve located the php.ini file, open it using a text editor, find the line that looks like ;extension=zip.so, uncomment it by removing the semicolon (;), then save and exit. Finally, restart the PHP service as described above.

If you don’t see a line like ;extension=zip.so, then it’s likely that the extension isn’t installed, and you should run the apt-get install command as shown above.

Andrew SB

DigitalOcean Employee

• February 24, 2016

When upgrading to PHP 7, you should make sure to install the PHP 7 versions of you libraries as well. The PPA providing PHP 7 also provides a php7.0-zip package. You can install it with: