Install imagick in PHP 5.5. and 5.6 with EasyApache 4

[did-vmonroig]

We've switched to EasyApache 4 in order to have PHP 5.5 and 5.6 available for our clients.

Some of them need imagick library, working at least in PHP 5.5. I can't find a rpm available for this module, PECL is now broken and manual installation fails because phpize has no headers for the new PHP homes.

How should I proceed?

Thanks in advance.

 

[JacobPerkins]

Hi,

In the PECL binary, you can simply remove the '-n' from the binary itself:

[email protected] [~]# diff /usr/local/bin/pecl pecl
28c28
< exec $PHP -C -n -q $INCARG -d date.timezone=UTC -d output_buffering=1 -d variables_order=EGPCS -d safe_mode=0 -d register_argc_ar
gv="On" $INCDIR/peclcmd.php "[email protected]"
---
> exec $PHP -C -q $INCARG -d date.timezone=UTC -d output_buffering=1 -d variables_order=EGPCS -d safe_mode=0 -d register_argc_argv=
"On" $INCDIR/peclcmd.php "[email protected]"

This will allow you to use the PECL binary from the command line. You should be able to install those modules after making this change :D

Let me know how it goes. Thanks!

 

[did-vmonroig]

Thanks for your help. With your change PECL seems to work:

# pecl install imagick

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Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/local/include/php/ext/imagick/php_imagick_shared.h'
Installing '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/imagick.so'
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/imagick-3.3.0
Extension imagick enabled in php.ini

But this server uses EasyApache 4, so extension hasn't been enabled for webs, as it uses another PHP.INI. I've copied library from /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/imagick.so to /opt/cpanel/ea-php55/root/usr/lib64/php/modules/ and created /opt/cpanel/ea-php55/root/etc/php.d/imagick.ini, with this content:

; Enable imagick extension module
extension=imagick.so

After an httpd restart, this is the new problem:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: imagick: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20090626
PHP    compiled with module API=20121212
These options need to match
 in Unknown on line 0

 

[did-vmonroig]

Just for the record, I couln't manage to recompile properly imagick.

Reverted back to EasyApache 3 and I'll be far from it while it's work in progress. Our clients will have to wait for multihome PHP.

 

[MastricX]

Removed the -n in /usr/local/bin/pecl

pecl config-set bin_dir /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/
pecl config-set php_bin /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/php
pecl config-set php_ini /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/etc/php.ini

pecl install imagick

Helped me build the correct API version.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Helped me build the correct API version.

Hello,

I'm happy to see that solution worked well. Thank you for updating this thread with the outcome.