Adding PECL Uploadprogress to 1&1 shared hosting for Drupal FileField

May 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM

Originally published at Jeremy Heslop. You can comment here or there.

Drupal 6.x is the platform we use to build great websites. There are modules FileField and ImageField 3.0 that allow the ability to update a progress meter when uploading a file. This requires installing a PECL extension to PHP called uploadprogress. Here is the process I used to get it working on a 1and1.com hosting package. You will need a hosting package with ssh support currently the Business and Developer packages do.

Download PECL uploadaccess to your 1&1 account
Extract the package tar xvzf uploadprogress-1.0.0.tgz
Go into the directory cd uploadprogress-1.0.0
Run phpize5 phpize5
Change php-config to php-config5 in configure script sed -i 's/=php-config/=php-config5/g' configure
Change include directives in Makefile sed -i 's#-I/usr/local/include/php#-I/usr/include/php5#g' Makefile
Run make and make test make make test
Make new extensions folder for new extension to go in mkdir ~/extensions
Copy uploadprogress extension to new folder cp .libs/uploadprogress.so ~/extensions/
Create new php.ini under your main folder (or under a single subfolder for just that application) to add new extension_dir then add this code to the file extension_dir=/kunden/homepages/6/d87663654/htdocs/extensions/ extension=uploadprogress.so