Installing SSH2 Extension for PHP on CentOS 5

Download the rpmforge-release package

http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

yum install gcc php-devel php-pear libssh2 libssh2-devel

pecl install -f ssh2

touch /etc/php.d/ssh2.ini

echo extension=ssh2.so > /etc/php.d/ssh2.ini

/etc/init.d/httpd restart 

php -m | grep ssh2