The Tidy extension in DirectAdmin is not available by default, so you need to do some manual work. It’s very easy, and you don’t need to be a server expert.
First, we need to install the PHP Tidy development package. I am using a RHEL/CentOS/AlmaLinux-based OS, so I will use the yum command. For Ubuntu, you can use apt install instead of yum.
Step 1:
yum install libtidy-devel
Now, go to the DirectAdmin CustomBuild directory. Create a custom/php directory and copy the PHP config file to it. Change the PHP version according to your needs. I am enabling it on PHP 8.1, so I am using php81. If you want to enable it on PHP 8.2, replace php81 with php82 in the command below.
Step 2:
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
mkdir -p custom/php
cp -fp "configure/php/configure.php81" "custom/php/configure.php81"
cd custom/php
nano configure.php81
Step 3:
Add below line just before any -with-extension-name \ line.
--with-tidy \
Example:
Before:
–with-zip \
–enable-bcmath \
After:
–with-zip \
–with-tidy \
–enable-bcmath \
Save your changes.
Step 4
Go back to the custom build directory of DirectAdmin.
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
Now, get the PHP slot for your PHP version from the options.conf file in DirectAdmin.
grep -P 'php[\d]_' /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/options.conf
Output will be something like:
php1_release=8.2
php1_mode=fastcgi
php2_release=8.1
PHP 8.1 is using the php2 slot. Note it.
Step 5
Now, we’re going to recompile the PHP version. Since we only enabled Tidy on PHP 8.1, I will compile only PHP 8.1 to save time.
Replace php2 in below command with the slot number we get in the step 4.
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build php_expert 8.1 php2
If you are using the php-fpm handler, you should also include it in the command:
./build php_expert 8.1 php2-fpm
Step 6:
./build rewrite_confs
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