A question about php in a jail

[James B. Byrne]

On Fri, January 13, 2017 15:39, James B. Byrne wrote:
> This past week I have been setting up a jail for a drupal7 website.  I
> am now at the point where I need to update the modules and I would
> like to employ the drush cli utility.  To install this on a Drupal7
> website it is suggested to run this command in the Drupal document
> root:
>
>
> php -r
> "readfile('https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.drush.org/drush.phar');" >
> drush
>
> However, when I run this inside the jail then I see this error,
>
> PHP Warning:  readfile(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you
> forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in Command line code on
> line 1
> PHP Warning:
> readfile(https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.drush.org/drush.phar): failed
> to open stream: No such file or directory in Command line code on line
> 1.
>
> If I run the same command on the host system of the jail then I do not
> get this error.  What am I missing with respect to the jailed setup?
>

The answer to this problem turned out to be as simple as:

# pkg install php56-openssl



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