Installing ZIP extension

GoWilkes

• July 22, 2019 18:50

I have a hosting client that's using Wordpress, and they've requested that I install the zip extension for them. I've done some research, and in cPanel, it's supposed to be a simple matter of logging in to cPanel, go to PHP PEAR Packages, then type in "zip" and install it from there. But when I type in "zip" or "archive_zip", it finds nothing. I clicked on "Show Available Modules" and got the following error: There was a problem fetching the list of available modules. Then I clicked on "Show System Installed Modules", and have the following list: Archive_Tar Console_Getopt PEAR Structures_Graph XML_RPC XML_Util So I'm kind of at a loss here... how do I install the zip extension for them? If I have to update something on the server, am I going to run the risk of negatively affecting other accounts on the same server? FWIW, I'm not 100% sure which PHP version I'm using. phpMyAdmin says that I'm using PHP 7.2.7, but # php --version says that I'm using 5.6.30 (cli).

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  Frontier_Digital

  • July 23, 2019 00:03

  I turned Zip on by opening "Manage PHP Versions" then in the list of add-on's I selected zip

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  GoWilkes

  • July 23, 2019 01:51

  @Frontier_Digital, in cPanel or WHM? I don't see "Manage PHP Versions" in either, can you tell me how to get there?

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 23, 2019 15:40

  Hello @GoWilkes, The Archive_Zip PEAR module for PHP is no longer maintained by it's developer. You can install "zip" under the PHP Extensions tab in WHM >> EasyApache 4 or by executing the following command as root: yum install ea-php72-php-zip
  Simply replace ea-php72 with the version of PHP you want it installed on (e.g. ea-php73 for PHP version 7.3). Let me know if this helps. Thank you.

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  GoWilkes

  • July 26, 2019 07:42

  That seemed to work perfectly, Michael, thanks! I haven't heard from the client yet to see if that fixed their problem, but I'm pretty sure that's what was needed. For those reading this in the future, I had to go to EasyApache 4, then "Customize" next to "Currently Installed Packages". Then there was "PHP Extensions". After selecting it, you have to click "Review" on the left, then "Provision" to build the new update.

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