Laravel-backup: Fatal error: Class 'ZipArchive' not found

[stefro]

Hi,

I've deployed a new Forge server yesterday. When I try to run php artisan backup:run I get this message:

Start backing up
Database dumped
Determining which files should be backed up...
Start zipping 31 files...

  [Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError]
  Fatal error: Class 'ZipArchive' not found

It seems like this new Forge server does niet have all required components installed. Any idea's?

[freekmurze]

It isn't installed by default for newly provisioned Forge servers. You can install it by running

sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip

I believe for that it'll be installed by default again soon.

[mansouralex]

Hello @freekmurze, What does it happen when running sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip on a forge server that's running 5.6.19 ? Thanks.

[freekmurze]

I guess you should google the specific instructions for installing the zip extension on PHP5.

[redgluten]

I had to search here to fix this, it would probably be a good idea to add the extension requirement to the documentation?

Awesome work by the way, those Spatie packages are always a joy to use. 👍

[gopalkumar315]

@mansouralex I use this command for php5.6, it worked for me
sudo apt-get install php5.6-zip

[freekmurze]

@redgluten it's mentioned on the requirements page: https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-backup/v4/requirements

[RaviFefar]

First Install PHP Zip Extension Bellow command:

sudo apt-get install php-zip

You are using multiple versions of PHP and you want to link the Zip extension with a specific PHP version.
Here I using the php7.3 version.

sudo apt-get install php7.3-zip

Restart Apache/Nginx Web Server

sudo systemctl restart nginx
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now Restart PHP-FPM:

sudo systemctl restart php-fpm