zlib extensions disabled

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:06, Peter Oakley wrote:

> I'm looking for some help with Wordpress auto-updating, which apparently uses gzip compression.  I am using php5 @5.3.0_1+apache+macosx+mysql5, and I have zlib @1.2.3_3 installed and active. In the "Phar" section of my phpinfo, I see the line for "gzip compression: disabled (install ext/zlib)". I tried making sure zlib is enabled in my php.ini file, but the documentation is not helpful. Can anyone give me some guidance regarding how to enable zlib for gzip compression?


In php5 @5.3.0_0 and earlier, the zlib extension was always included. In 5.3.0_1 I moved zlib and many other extensions to separate ports. But zlib is so small and so useful that in 5.3.0_2 I put it back in. So please "sudo port selfupdate" and update to php5 @5.3.0_2 or later. The current version of php5 is 5.3.1_1.