Installing ACP or Uploadprogress Tutorial

If you want to add an upload progress bar/module using PHP or Ajax you need to have ACP and/or Uploadprogress installed to work with your PHP.

Installing ACP or Uploadprogress from cPanel PECL install doesnt work because it doesnt compile with--apxs so you need to install from the command line. The following is a step by step on how to get this working.

Login to Shell as root

Get the latest version of ACP or Uploadprogress:

ACP: http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
Uploadprogress: http://pecl.php.net/package/uploadprogress

I'll do ACP for example but the install is the same for uploadprogress

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.1.2.tgz

Extract and move into the directory

gzip -d APC-3.1.2.tgz
tar -xf APC-3.1.2.tar
cd APC-3.1.2

Locate where php is:

which php

This should return something like: /usr/local/bin/php

Create configuration files:

phpize

Compile APC:

./configure --enable--apc --enable--apc--mmap --with--apxs --with--php--config=/usr/local/bin/php-config
make
make install

Find your php.ini

locate php.ini

Most likely the path will be /usr/local/lib/php.ini but may vary from server to server.

we will edit php.ini and add the APC extension and/or uploadprogress extension:

pico /usr/local/lib/php.ini

In the 'Paths and Directories' section of your php.ini you'll see this:

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
extension_dir = "/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613"
extension = "uploadprogress.so"
extension = "apc.so"

Make sure it looks like the above (depending on your path to php extensions directory)

Now scroll down further in the php.ini to 'File Uploads', this is the step most tutorials leave out but is most important to making it work.

Just below:
; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = ??m

Add this:

apc.rfc1867 = On

Without the above line nothing will work.

Now save the php.ini and restart Apache.

Done! you can now have an uploadprogress bar for upload forms.

An excellent step by step tutorial for creating upload progress bar using php and ajax can be found here:
http://www.phpriot.com/articles/php-ajax-file-uploads

 

PECL would be an easy way of course but on many cpanel servers including about 2 dozen I have installed this on for clients and many others who have posted in this forum (Do a search), ACP and/or uploadprogress does not compile with--apxs and you get a non install error so sometimes the longer way is best for those who cannot get there the short way. God forbid users here try to help others when one way isnt the only way.