How to install imagick for PHP on centos cpanel server

[Sanju Kr]

The imagick.so PHP module can’t currently be installed via PECL, due to it’s inability to write to /var/tmp. To get around that, you can install it manuall:

yum install ImageM* netpbm gd gd-* libjpeg libexif gcc coreutils make
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-3.0.1.tgz
tar zxvf ./imagick-3.0.1.tgz
cd imagick-2.2.2
phpize
./configure
make
make test
make install

This will compile imagick.so, and move it to your extensions directory specified in php.ini. Now you’ll need to add the following to php.ini:

extension=imagick.so

and restart apache:

/scripts/restartsrv_httpd