imagick Installation via EasyApache

[BillyS]

I am going to give everyone an easy question to answer. Why isn't imagick part of the normal EasyApache configuration process? This isn't a complaint, just trying to understand since it's something the always popular Wordpress recommends - and I am new to Wordpress so I am just seeing this now.

Is there a security issue? Is is a finicky extension?

 

[ffeingol]

I can't tell you why it's not in EA, but it's very easy to install:

yum install ImageMagick-devel

And then install imagick via PECL for your various PHP versions.

 

[cPRex]

@BillyS - this would be a great feature request to submit using the link in my signature.

We have a guide that explains how to get this setup, which also includes details for CloudLinux's alt-php system here, if you'd like to check that out:

How to Install ImageMagick for EA-PHP and ALT-PHP

What is ImageMagick? ImageMagick is software designed to display, convert, and edit raster and vector images. It can be leveraged with PHP by installing the ImageMagick PHP extension on cPanel serv...

support.cpanel.net

 

[BillyS]

Tried the above, got the below


Warning: popen() has been disabled for security reasons in PEAR/Builder.php on line 465
ERROR: failed to run `phpize'

Guess because of this:

disable_functions = "show_source,system,shell_exec,passthru,exec,phpinfo,popen,proc_open"

Can I remove popen from disable_functions to complete the installation, then include it again or will that create a long term problem?

And if this is true, I might just wait a month or so

> NOTE: In cPanel 92 and later these packages will be installed by default.

 

[cPRex]

There's no issue with removing popen from that list as that's just personal preference on what you are restricting in your own PHP environment.