---
title: "PHP on Linux"
slug: "prefix-php-on-linux"
description: "Install Prefix PHP profiler, set permissions, run install.sh, and verify requests in Prefix for efficient performance monitoring."
updated: 2023-11-06T21:19:12Z
published: 2023-11-06T21:19:12Z
canonical: "docs.stackify.com/prefix-php-on-linux"
---

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# PHP on Linux

### 1. Download and install the Prefix installation file:

Check out the [Getting Started](https://docs.stackify.com/v1/docs/prefix-getting-started) Prefix page to download and install Prefix on your workstation.

### 2. Create and set the permissions for the PHP profiler installation folder.

```
mkdir -p "/usr/local/stackify/stackify-php-apm"

chmod -R 777 "/usr/local/stackify/stackify-php-apm"
```

### 3. Get the Prefix PHP profiler from Stackify.

[https://stackifyversionwarehouse.azurewebsites.net/v1/package/stackify-php-apm/linux](https://stackifyversionwarehouse.azurewebsites.net/v1/package/stackify-php-apm/linux) And put it in a folder of your choice. (It doesn’t need to be the final installation folder)

```
mkdir -p “/tmp/php_profiler
wget -O “/tmp/php_profiler/profiler.tar.gz” \ “https://stackifyversionwarehouse.azurewebsites.net/v1/package/stackify-php-apm/linux”
```

### 4.Go into the directory and extract profiler.tar.gz

```
cd “/tmp/php_profiler”
tar -xzf “profiler.tar.gz”
```

### 5. Run install.sh to install the PHP profiler

```
./install.sh
```

Use sudo if you need permissions.

```
sudo ./install.sh
```

### 6. Set the StackifyPrefix environment variable:

In your `/etc/environment` file, append the following command `StackifyPrefix=1` Add the following lines to your php.ini

```
[stackify]
extension=stackify.so
stackify.application_name=My PHP Application
stackify.environment_name=Production
```

Replace the `application_name` and `environment_name` values with your application and environment name

### 7. Verify your requests show in Prefix