bzip2 support in phpmyadmin

[paulkoan]

Hello,

I have compiled bz2 support into php, and restarted cpanel. The only options for export in phpmyadmin are none, zipped and gzipped. On import it states that gzip will be automatically detected only.

If I go to phpadmin/setup/index.php, there are errors saying that bzopen and bzcompress functions are not present, and so bzip isn't supported.

My test script that checks for bzopen and bzcompress comes back positive.

I have added $cfg['BZipDump'] = true to the config.inc.php for phpmyadmin.

Is there anything I can do to get phpmyadmin to recognise bzip2?

This is 11.25.0.

Paul

[cPanelJared]

When you ran EasyApache with BZ2 support selected, you only rebuilt the PHP that is used to serve your sites. cPanel has its own internal PHP that is used for phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin, and all three Webmail systems. To use BZ2 in phpMyAdmin, you will need to rebuild the internal cPanel PHP.

Edit /var/cpanel/easy/apache/profile/makecpphp.profile.yaml and change the following entries:

Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Bz2: 0

Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Bz2: 0

Change each "0" to a "1." Save the changes to the file, and run the following command:

# /scripts/makecpphp

The internal cPanel PHP will be rebuilt. This will not affect Apache or the PHP that runs your sites. Once this is finished, the bzip2 options should be available in phpMyAdmin.

[paulkoan]

Thanks Jared,

I did this on a couple of servers and both had the same result. Bzip didn't appear as an option in phpmyadmin, and when I checked the yaml file, the Bz2 option had been reset to 0.

I am running it again as a sanity check, but what could cause this to happen in the event I have not lost my marbles?

[paulkoan]

Here are some extracts from the build process:

Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Bcmath: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Bz2: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::CGI: 0

Enabled in config, yet

        -- Begin step 'configuring php for cPanel and cli' --
!!
                ./configure
                        --disable-pdo
                        --enable-ftp
                        --enable-libxml
                        --enable-mbstring
                        --enable-sockets
                        --enable-static
                        --enable-zip
                        --prefix=/var/cpanel/3rdparty/
                        --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/
                        --with-curl=/opt/curlssl/
                        --with-gd
                        --with-gettext
                        --with-imap=/opt/php_with_imap_client/
                        --with-imap-ssl=/usr
                        --with-jpeg-dir=/usr
                        --with-kerberos
                        --with-libdir=lib64
                        --with-libxml-dir=/opt/xml2/
                        --with-mcrypt=/opt/libmcrypt/
                        --with-mysql=/usr
                        --with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
                        --with-openssl=/usr
                        --with-openssl-dir=/usr
                        --with-pcre-regex=/opt/pcre
                        --with-pgsql=/usr
                        --with-pic
                        --with-png-dir=/usr
                        --with-xpm-dir=/usr
                        --with-zlib
                        --with-zlib-dir=/usr

Note --with-bzip not present

checking whether to enable bc style precision math functions... no
checking for BZip2 support... no
checking whether to enable calendar conversion support... no

And so not built.

This also comes up:

No package libz-devel available.

Could this be related? Would seem odd that bzip support can be built in the main php without its present and yet not in the apache version.

[cPanelJared]

I apologize for the delayed response. From the output you provided (which is helpful; thank you), it looks like you may not have a development package needed for BZ2 installed, which could cause it to be skipped and not included in the configure line. On one of my test systems, I have the following packages installed:

# rpm -qa|grep -i bzip
bzip2-libs-1.0.3-4.el5_2
bzip2-devel-1.0.3-4.el5_2
bzip2-1.0.3-4.el5_2

The bzip2-devel package would be the key, because many Apache and PHP extensions depend on source headers. If these packages are not installed on your server, you can try:

# yum install bzip2-devel

Which should fetch and install the package and its dependencies. "yum list" returns no matches for "libz-devel", and it is not clear whether it is related to your BZ2 issue or not.

If this does not help, we would need to log into the server in order to investigate fully. If you submit a ticket and PM me the ticket number, I would be happy to look at the server for you.

[paulkoan]

It looks like they are already installed:

Package bzip2-devel-1.0.3-4.el5_2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package bzip2-devel-1.0.3-4.el5_2.i386 already installed and latest version

Any other ideas?

[cPanelJared]

Please submit a ticket so that we may log into the server and investigate the problem directly.