MongoDB in PHP Installation

Installing MongoDB with PHP support for same

Installing libraries with Apt-Get

# Install mongodb
sudo apt-get install mongodb

# Install PHP PEAR
sudo apt-get install php-pear

# Install SASL
sudo apt-get install libsasl2-dev

# Install PHP support for MongoDB
sudo pecl install mongodb

Add "extension=mongo.so" to php.ini

I'm doing this on an old Ubuntu 12 build, so on that you'd probably add the line to /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. I'll put instructions for up to date servers later tonight.

Restart Apache2

sudo service apache2 restart

configure: error: sasl.h not found!

Installing MongoDB with Pecl with command sudo pecl install mongo fails with error

checking for SASL... not found
configure: error: sasl.h not found!

Likely Solution
Ensure the SASL library is installed

sudo apt-get install libsasl2-dev