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How to Disable Zlib entirely from PHP?

Greetings,

My PHP is compiled as an apache module with configuration option "--with-zlib".
I need to disable Zlib entirely without recompiling PHP.
I have tried setting the directive "zlib.output_compression" to No in /etc/php.ini with no success.
I also tried uncommenting both "AddEncoding x-compress Z" and "AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz" in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf with no success also.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

--mBf

minichicken

Just some ideas:

Did you also comment out this line: ;extension=php_zip.dll

and also after you've done the changes, did you restart apache? You will need to restart to take the new settings.

regards-

hernst42

Hi mBf,
what's you problem with the zlib. If php is compiled with it, the zlib will be included/loaded as the libphp4.so is linked against that library.
To turn off output-compress seti the value to Off (not No)

There is no way to disable zlib without recompiling php aus --with-zlib was not compiled as shared/dynamic loadable extension.

mBf

ASKER

minichicken, zlib is compiled in php and is not a loadable extension.

herns42, yes I have set output-compress to Off. I was just writing my question in a hurry.

I found out that I could not disable zlib without recompiling php.

an out of topic question, how can I unload an extention from /etc/php.ini?

Cheers,

mBf

hernst42

You can not unload an build in extension of php without recompiling php.
You can only disable the loading of shared-extensuion if you have a line like extension=gd.so. If you remove that line, that module will no longer be present if php is loaded. If you don't have such a line you can not unload that extension.

mBf

ASKER

What I need exactly is to disable the compression of php forums on the fly.
It appears that I can do that by disabling the function 'ob_gzhandler'.

Is there anyway?

Cheers,

--mBf

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mBf

ASKER

Thanks.

I made sure that "disable_functions" is the correct solution although I haven't tried it myself.
I'll be rewarding the points for you now.

Thanks again.

Cheers,

--mBf