Installing zLIB

[Mark Hewitt]

Can anyone comment on how hard it is to install zLIB into PHP?

My host has been promising to do it for the last 6 months with no results. I was just wondering if it is a long and involved process?

[eva2000]

installing zlib for linux - http://i4net.tv/marticle/get.php?action=getarticle&articleid=18

you'd need to recompile php with zlib too http://i4net.tv/marticle/get.php?action=getarticle&articleid=17

http://i4net.tv/marticle/index.php?action=section&sec=4

[Philipp]

installing zlib for linux - http://i4net.tv/marticle/get.php?ac...le&articleid=18

zLib is already included in the PHP distribution. There is no need to install it before :)

You just need to add --with-zlib in ./configure to enable zLib support

[Mark Hewitt]

Originally posted by Philipp


zLib is already included in the PHP distribution. There is no need to install it before :)

You just need to add --with-zlib in ./configure to enable zLib support

So you don't need to recompile PHP?

It's not me that has to do it of course. It's my webhosting company. They talk lots but do litte :(

[JamesUS]

Yes you do need to recompile PHP. Does your host run cpanel?

[Mark Hewitt]

Yes cpanel and their own "netadmin" extension.

[Mark Hewitt]

Well my host seems to think it's too much bother so have refused to do it :mad:

[dwh]

Originally posted by JamesUS
Yes you do need to recompile PHP. Does your host run cpanel? I do...Just curious, why are you asking?


BTE, How can I tell if it's enabled? What are the benefits? Is this to write scripts or does this compress everything php touches on the fly? It would be nice to perform lossless compression on all uploaded images.

phpinfo doesn't mention it at all.

[JamesUS]

I'm asking about cpanel because I too have cpanel on my server and recently discovered (but only after much hardship trying to get mod_gzip going myself) that there is a mod_gzip extension available that will work on cpanel with about 5 minutes installation time (much less than otherwise).
http://cpanel.net/
It's the second link down - I'm not sure if it is what's needed for vB's gzip compression as I think you need zlib as well but it's worth a shot.

[roy7]

If you use mod_gzip and configure it to handle php files, you don't need to use vB's compression at all. I prefer using mod_gzip since it does other stuff as well, and I can log the compression stats to get some nice graphs of how much bandwidth it saves. :)

-Jonathan