Fixing libxml, php bug and issues with HTML entities by downgrading libxml

When you parse XML with PHP and libxml 2.7.0, all HTML entities gets stripped out. This is a known bug with libxml 2.7.0 and this bug mess up a lot of things.

The solution for this is to downgrade libxml to an older version. The steps are given below:

            And find the line that starts with: exclude=

            And add libxml* to the end of it so this line should look something like this:

	exclude=apache* bind-chroot courier* dovecot* exim* httpd* mod_ssl* mysql* nsd* php* proftpd* pure-ftpd* spamassassin* squirrelmail* libxml*

        3. Now you will have to let WHM know that we want to compile PHP with this new libxml. We can do it by the following commands:

	cd /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/

            There will be a file namely "all_php5". If it is there edit it, otherwise create the file. Add the following lines to the end of it:

	–with-libxml-dir=/opt/libxml
	–with-libxml-dir=/opt/libxml/

            Now go ahead and build Apache and PHP using:

	WHM >> Main >> Software >> EasyApache (Apache Update)

            or you can do it from backend by the script

	/scripts/easyapache

            You should be all set.  

        4. To check the current version of libxml:

	php -i | grep libxml