What is the proper way to install zLIB?

[ibeblunt]

Question: I've been running vBulletin for a while and just realized that I've been running it without zLIB which won't allow me to use gZIP compression.

Now I recently asked my ISP to recompile PHP with zLIB but he said the following:

"it can be done on PHP but we think it would work better in Apache."

Should they compile zLIB in Apache or PHP? or both?

Thanks.

[eva2000]

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[Philipp]

ibeblunt:
Didn't you compile couple of days ago PHP 4.0.6?

To compile PHP with zlib support add in the "./configure ..." line the follow: --with-zlib

Another way to get gzip compression is the use of the mod_gzip module for the Apache Server (http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip) but I personal prefer PHP with zlib.