Horde on freebsd bug, no iconv support

[laurentf]

Hello,

I have a problem with Horde on Plesk 7.5.3 with FreeBSD 5.3 ( seems to be Plesk/FreeBSD specific) :

with a french localized browser (IE or Firefox, whatever) all accents a replaced by weirds characters.

At first sight, the problem is that the page is sent in ISO-8859-1, but the browser expects UTF-8 ( for instance, in Firefox, changing the character encoding from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 solves the problem temporary, for only one page)

By looking at
http://webmail.domain.tld/horde/test.php, i can see, under "PHP Module Capabilities" section :

Iconv Support: No

in phpinfo() , the configure section looks terrible :

'./configure' '--enable-versioning' 
'--enable-memory-limit' '--with-layout=GNU' 
'--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--disable-all' 
'--prefix=/usr/local/psa/apache' 
'--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/psa/apache/conf'
 '--enable-track-vars' 
'--with-iodbc=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--enable-static' '--enable-mbstring' 
'--enable-mbregex' '--with-regex=php' 
'--with-pear' '--enable-ctype' 
'--with-curl=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--with-dom=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' 
'--enable-gd-jis-conv' 
'--with-freetype-dir=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--with-png-dir=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--without-tiff' 
'--with-gettext=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--with-iconv-dir=/usr/local' 
'--with-mhash=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--with-mysql=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/release/dist/usr/local/psa/mysql'
 '--with-openssl-dir=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/release/openssl'
 '--with-openssl=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/release/openssl'
 '--enable-overload' 
'--with-pcre-regex=yes' '--enable-posix' 
'--with-pgsql=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/release/dist/usr/local/psa/postgresql'
 '--enable-session'
 '--enable-sockets' 
'--enable-tokenizer' '--with-expat-dir=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--enable-xml' '--enable-xslt' 
'--with-xslt-sablot=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--with-sablot-js=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--with-iconv-dir=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--with-zlib=yes' 
'--with-apxs2=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/apache/files/apxs'
 '--with-imap=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--with-imap-ssl=/usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist'
 '--prefix=/usr/local/psa/apache' 'i386-portbld-freebsd5.3'

the /usr/home/builder/tmp_serge/psa_PLESK_7_5_3/lib/dist seems to be big plesk bug !!!

moreover, there are *TWO* --with-iconv-dir ( the first in /usr/local, the second in the path above ), but NO --with-iconv (which activate iconv support)

( same thing on a test box with a fresh install, so I'm sure it's the 'stock' php bundled with Plesk on FreeBSD ... )

To verify this, I tried to recompile php by hand (which is not easy, because my system don't have /usr/home/builder/tmp_serge ... )
After a few try, I managed to recompile an unperfect PHP ( I didn't solved all the required dependancies ...) with iconv support --> Horde works perfectly with french accents !

So, after this long intro, here's my question :

What is the neatest way to recover iconv support in php ? (without waiting for an hypothetical new version of Plesk which solves the problem ...)

thanks !

 

[laurentf]

I answer to myself :

Here's my recipe to recompile php on FreBSD 5.3 with plesk 7.5.3 :

- use a fresh /usr/ports tree (updated with cvsup for instance)

- install the following packages ( with cd /usr/ports/<section>/<package> ; make ; make install )

* devel/bison
* ftp/curl
* converters/libiconv
* databases/libiodbc ( edit the Makefile and add 'WITHOUT_GUI= yes ' at the beginning if you don't want to compile xorg and gtk ... )
* print/freetype2
* graphics/jpeg
* graphics/png
* textproc/libxslt
* textproc/expat2
* textproc/libxml2
* textproc/sablotron ( DON'T check ICONV_TYPECAST !)
* mail/imap_uw
* security/mhash

- download php-4.3.11 source from www.php.net, and untar the archive somewhere

- configure php like this :

./configure \
--enable-versioning \
--enable-memory-limit \
--with-layout=GNU \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--disable-all \
--prefix=/usr/local/psa/apache \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/psa/apache/conf \
--enable-track-vars \
--with-iodbc \
--enable-static \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-mbregex \
--with-regex=php \
--with-pear \
--enable-ctype \
--with-curl \
--with-dom \
--enable-ftp \
--with-gd \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--enable-gd-jis-conv \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local \
--without-tiff \
--with-gettext \
--with-iconv \
--with-iconv-dir=/usr/local \
--with-mhash \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/psa/mysql \
--with-openssl \
--enable-overload \
--with-pcre-regex=yes \
--enable-posix \
--with-pgsql=/usr/local/psa/postgresql \
--enable-session \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-tokenizer \
--with-expat-dir=/usr/local \
--enable-xml \
--enable-xslt \
--with-xslt-sablot \
--with-zlib=yes \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/psa/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-imap= \
--with-imap-ssl \
--prefix=/usr/local/psa/apache i386-portbld-freebsd5.3 > configure.log

- check configure.log to see if it's OK for you

- make

- do a backup of /usr/local/psa/apache, just in case ...

- make install , stop and start apache via th plesk control panel

- it works !!!!

--> PHP should behave exactly as the plesk version, but with iconv support ( all the accents work in Horde ...). It only lacks the javascript support with sablotron, not a big issue for me ( but if someone knows how to compile it, I'm interested)

--> of course, don't trust me and don't do this on your production environnement ! What's working for me maybe won't work for you !

--> if someone from SW-SOFT read this thread : it would be kind to do something like this in the next patchset ...

 

[shubin]

works great!

Works very well, great work!
i have only one note:
restart apache from command-line using command
#/usr/local/psa/rc.d/httpd restart
it's much safer

--> if someone from SW-SOFT read this thread : it would be kind to do something like this in the next patchset ...

yes. and the best solution is to use applications from ports

 

[Laurent Bauer]

Hello,

I have the same problem with Plesk 7.5.4 under Fedora Core 2, but iconv support *enabled*.
I also get weird characters instead of accents (French language). Is it a known bug or a config problem ?
I upgraded from 7.1.4 a while ago, and (from my clients' point of view) this is when the problem occurred.

Thanks for helping.

Laurent