Installing ImageMagick 6.3.8 on a cPanel Server

This tutorial will give you a little step by step manual of how to upgrade and properly install ImageMagick on you cPanel server without having to manually compile Apache

Firstly we need to talke notice that the new easyApache version 3 does not incude ImageMagick as an additional install option in PHP, so here are the steps we performed to get that magic wand happening again.

1/ downolad ImageMagic 6.3.8. onto your server by using

wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.4.3-6.zip
unzip ImageMagick-6.4.3-6.zip

go into the directory

cd ImageMagick-6.4.3-6

the default should be fine , but you can always check other options here Install-unix.txt
anyways, default install is simple

./configure
make install

Both of the commands can take a little while , but either way this should have installed ImageMagick 6.3.8 now. And now to finish the process

cd PerlMagick/
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

BUT HOLD ON, this is not it yet!

We need to get it locked into PHP !
The new WHM has a fantastic utility to complete the task.

Log into WHM >> Software >> Module Installers >> PHP Pecl and install imagick to get the whole thing binding into PHP and making your applications gell ! :)

Below you can find a pic in WHM

That should be it, if by any chance you hot a problem with a 64 bit OS and WHM can not find imagick then install it manually, by following the steps below

Firstly install ImageMagick-devel

yum -y install ImageMagick-devel

Assuming ImageMagick-devel is installed, you need to download the Imagick PHP extensions, located here: http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick

Latest version, as of this post, is imagick-2.2.0
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-2.2.0.tgz

Place this package in your home directory. Then, in a shell console, type

tar -zxvf imagick-2.2.0
.tgz

while in the home directory (don't type the quotes)

Then type the following commands:

cd imagick-2.2.0
phpize
./configure
make
make install

Now go back into WHM and try to activate imagick again

How to install ffmpeg, ffmpeg-PHP, Mplayer, Mencoder, flv2tool, LAME MP3 Encoder, and Libog from source

This article shows how to install ffmpeg, ffmpeg-PHP, Mplayer, Mencoder, flv2tool, LAME MP3 Encoder, and Libog from source. It should work on most systems, however may need some tweaking from system to sytem.

cd /usr/local/src

Download source tarballs:

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
wget http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2

Extract the tarballs:

tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar jxvf essential-20061022.tar.bz2
tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz


Make a directory to store all the codecs:

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/


Install any necessary packages:

yum install gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran
yum install subversion ruby ncurses-devel

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update
cd /usr/local/src

Copy codecs for mplayer:

mv /usr/local/src/essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/

If you are using secure tmp:

mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp
chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp
export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp

Installing Lame:

cd /usr/local/src/lame-3.97
./configure
make && make install

Installing Libogg:

cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.1.3
./configure && make && make install

Installing libvorbis:

cd /usr/local/src/libvorbis-1.1.2
./configure && make && make install

Installing flvtool2:

cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
./configure && make && make install

Installing ffmpeg:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --disable-mmx --enable-shared
make && make install

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.50 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.51 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51

Installing ffmpeg-php:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/
phpize
./configure
make
make install

Note: Make sure this is the correct php.ini for this server.

echo 'extension=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so' >> /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini

Restart apache:

service httpd restart

You should be ready to go now!

Note: up2date can be used if you don't have yum installed.

[How-To] Install FFMPEG to your account

Hello folks!

Let me first state that I have not tested if this installation of FFMPEG functions as required but the installation seems to have gone smoothly. If you attempt to use this install method and have any troubles, please do not submit a support ticket as Site5 does not provide support for 3rd party products. Feel free to respond to this post with any questions or issues you might have and I will do my best ( time permitting ) to assist in troubleshooting with you.

FFMPEG Install for Shared Hosting accounts.

Required:
Bash Shell for the account the procedure is initiated on.
Access to system Compiler and Fetch utility groups.

Note: For both of the above, you will likely need to submit a ticket unless previously requested. Please include the account domain name, and the specific system username which you will be logging into to perform this task to expedite your request.

cd ~
mkdir TEMP src bin bin/ffmpeg
cd src/
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg/
export TMPDIR='/home/username/TEMP/'
./configure --prefix=/home/username/bin/ffmpeg
# Your application may require extra configure options enabled to function correctly.
# Run "./configure --help" for a full list of available options.
# Contact the application vendor if you are not certain with this one.
make
make install

Your ffmpeg binary will be available @ "/home/username/bin/ffmpeg/bin/".