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Enable mime magic for php4 or php5 on a cpanel server

The following steps help you to enable mime magic on a cPanel server
1 - First do a ‘normal’ Apache Update with all the features you like
2 - Login into the commandline using putty or any other program that can be used to access commandline
3 - Edit the “buildscript” which you can locate at : /home/cpapachebuild/buildapache
4 - In that file search for the phrase “Running configure”.
5 - You will find 4 lines which start with “LDFLAGS=”, after them you append the following phrase “–with-xsl”
6 - For example it might look like this

if [ “1″ = “1″ ]; then
LDFLAGS=”-L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lstdc++” $configure $PIC $APXS –prefix=/usr/local –with-xml $MM –enable-bcmath –enable-calendar –with-curl –enable-exif –with-swf=/usr/local/flash –enable-ftp $WITHGD –with-gettext –with-iconv $WITHIMAP –enable-mbstring –enable-mbstr-enc-trans –enable-mbregex –with-mcrypt –enable-magic-quotes $WITHMYSQL –with-openssl –enable-discard-path –with-pear –enable-xslt –with-xslt-sablot –enable-safe-mode –enable-sockets –enable-track-vars $ttfopts –enable-versioning –with-xmlrpc –with-zip –with-zlib –with-mime-magic
else
LDFLAGS=”-L/usr/X11R6/lib64″ $configure $PIC $APXS –prefix=/usr/local –with-xml $MM –enable-bcmath –enable-calendar –with-curl –enable-exif –with-swf=/usr/local/flash –enable-ftp $WITHGD –with-gettext –with-iconv $WITHIMAP –enable-mbstring –enable-mbstr-enc-trans –enable-mbregex –with-mcrypt –enable-magic-quotes $WITHMYSQL –with-openssl –enable-discard-path –with-pear –enable-xslt –with-xslt-sablot –enable-safe-mode –enable-sockets –enable-track-vars $ttfopts –enable-versioning –with-xmlrpc –with-zip –with-zlib –with-mime-magic
fi
echo “#undef COMPILE_DL_ZLIB” >> main/php_config.h

7 - Now save your “buildscript” file and run it from the commandline

8 - Now update the following line in your php.ini to let the magic point to the right file

mime_magic.magicfile = "$PHP_INSTALL_DIR\magic.mime"

( You can lookup the magic.mime file on your server using tools like find or locate )

howto cPanel server with t1lib

If you get the error "Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagepsloadfont()" on your cPanel server, it is because the t1lib is not compiled in your webserver. You can solve this problem by following the next steps: