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Installing ImageMagick on a cPanel Server

Make sure that Imagemagick is not installed via Easyapache3. If you already have ImageMagick installed via rpm, you need to remove it. Find the rpms using the following command.

rpm -qa |grep -i imagemagick

Remove the rpms in the following order

rpm -e ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1
rpm -e ImageMagick-c++-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1
rpm -e ImageMagick-perl-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1
rpm -e ImageMagick-devel-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1
rpm -e ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1

Download the ImageMagick using the following

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.4.3-6.zip
unzip ImageMagick-6.4.3-6.zip
cd ImageMagick-6.4.3

Installation

./configure
make install

This may take a while to complete. Finally,

cd PerlMagick/
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

Add PHP Pecl extension to access ImageMagick via PHP

Login to WHM,

WHM > Software > Module Installers > PHP Pecl

install imagick

ImageMagick should be installed now.

If WHM can’t find the ImageMagic installation

Firstly install ImageMagick-devel

yum -y install ImageMagick-devel

Once that is done, you need to download the Imagick PHP extensions from:

http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-2.2.0.tgz
tar -zxvf imagick-2.2.0 .tgz
cd imagick-2.2.0
phpize
./configure

make
make install

find the php.ini using the command

php -i |grep php.ini

add the following line to php.ini

extension="imagick.so"

restart Apache and you are done.

How to change Mysql database directory to another partition in cPanel. /var patition full

Hi guys,

you might have faced the issue of /var partition gettting full regularly due to database directory. If you have a larger partition with free space, then it is possible to move the database directory to the larger partition.

Here are the steps

Switch off the database server while we are moving the databases.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql stop

I am considering that I have enough space in /home partition. Here goes my new database data directory as /home/mysql

Now it is better to copy the database first, rather than move.

cp -pr /var/lib/mysql /home
mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql-bk

We are copying the database to the new location since it is better to revert back the settings with minimum downtime, if anything goes wrong.

move to /tmp

cd /tmp
unlink mysql.sock
ln -s /home/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock

Take a backup of /etc/my.cnf

Now edit /etc/my.cnf

vi /etc/my.cnf

add the line
datadir=/home/mysql

If the socket file is specified, comment it out.

Now move to /var/lib/mysql and create a symblink

ln -s /home/mysql /var/lib/mysql

(Please note that you don’t specify the socket file location in my.cnf since it causes issues with phpMyadmin)

For, cPanel server, edit the phpMyadmin configuration
take a backup of “/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php”

edit this file /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php
vi /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php

add the following lines. If they already exist, edit as below.
(the connect_type usually exist at “tcp” change it to “socket”)

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = ‘/home/mysql/mysql.sock’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = ’socket’;

Now start the database server.

/etc/rc.d/ini.d/mysql start

If it starts fine, you are done. Check the database connections of your site.
You can now remove the directory /var/lib/mysql-bk

Suggestions, questions are welcome.