IMagick for PHP5.3

# Procedure for installing IMagick for PHP5.3 on a PHP+CGI server # Create an install directory mkdir ~/pecl_install cd ~/pecl_install # Download the last version of Imagick (as seen at http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick) wget http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-3.0.1.tgz # Unpack and get inside the extracted dir tar xzvf imagick-3.0.1.tgz cd imagick-3.0.1 # Generate the configuration script phpize53 # Configure for php53 and make ./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/bin/php53-config make # Create a folder where the custom PHP extensions would live mkdir ~/php53-exts # Copy the compiled extension to the custom folder cp modules/imagick.so ~/php53-exts/ # (Optional) Link the default server extensions inside the new folder, so they are still accessible ln -s /usr/local/lib/php53/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/* ~/php53-exts/ # Customize the php.ini file of the desired web application, so that it loads the new extension # MAKE SURE to replace 'htdocs' with the specific application you are enabling this for echo "extension_dir = $HOME/php53-exts" >> ~/webapps/htdocs/php.ini echo "extension = imagick.so" >> ~/webapps/htdocs/php.ini