How to install php-oci8 in CentOS/RHEL 7 (x86_64)

A module for PHP applications that use OCI8 databases

License: PHP Vendor: GetPageSpeed LLC http://www.php.net/

Install

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install php-oci8

Description

The php-oci8 packages provides the OCI8 extension version 2.2.0 and the PDO driver to access Oracle Database. The extension is linked with Oracle client libraries 21.13 (Oracle Instant Client). For details, see Oracle's note "Oracle Client / Server Interoperability Support" (ID 207303.1). You must install libclntsh.so.21.1 to use this package, provided by Oracle Instant Client RPM available from Oracle on: https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html Documentation is at http://php.net/oci8 and http://php.net/pdo_oci

Compatibility

This package is compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

RPMs

Package	Size	Built	Changes
php-oci8-7.2.34-33.el7.x86_64	129 KiB	2026-10-24	Danila Vershinin - add RuntimeDirectory=php-fpm to the base-shape unit (RHEL parity): · systemd recreates /run/php-fpm on every service start
php-oci8-7.2.34-32.el7.x86_64	129 KiB	2026-10-24	Danila Vershinin - ship tmpfiles.d/php-fpm.conf in the base shape: recreate /run/php-fpm at · boot, without it php-fpm fails to start after a reboot
php-oci8-7.2.34-31.el7.x86_64	129 KiB	2026-10-24	Danila Vershinin - add gps_license license-presence extension, statically compiled into every · SAPI (ADR-002): phpinfo attribution section, cron.daily verdict heartbeat, · dormant guarded HTML footer tier (hard clamps to footer, fail-open to soft)
php-oci8-7.2.34-30.el7.x86_64	129 KiB	2026-10-23	Danila Vershinin - Rebuild for EL7 from Remi's maintained 7.2.34-29 patch set (Remi's EL7 · builds stopped at 7.2.34-22) · - Fix RCE via OOM corruption · GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w CVE-2026-109618 · - Fix RCE via stale global state · GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp CVE-2026-109619 · - Fix GHSA-h35g-vwh6-m678 mysqlnd heap content leak, which Remi's 7.2 · builds never received · CVE-2024-8929 · - Port the October 2026 security batch from Remi's php74-php 7.4.33-29..31 · via the GetPageSpeed 7.3 port; provenance in SECURITY.md: · CVE-2026-92842 CVE-2026-91768 CVE-2026-91769 CVE-2026-91767 · CVE-2025-1218 CVE-2026-91766 CVE-2026-91765 CVE-2025-14181 · CVE-2026-6103 GHSA-ch8v-r6jh-4vvr · - CVE-2026-93682 does not affect 7.2 (NUL-terminated Location buffer) · - enable the oci8 / pdo_oci build (new oci8 subpackage), linked against · Oracle Instant Client 21.13 exactly like Remi's EL7 build · - GetPageSpeed branding: Vendor and Packager tags, php -v prints · "Built by GetPageSpeed LLC" (phpinfo Build Provider already set) · - Package every php.d extension ini as 0644, as Remi does · - php-common requires getpagespeed-extras-release