How to manually install Fileinfo PECL module

Here is basic steps how to install the Fileinfo PECL module:

cd /usr/src wget http://pecl.php.net/get/Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz tar -zxf Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz cd Fileinfo-1.0.4 phpize ./configure make make install

You can get some errors

checking for magic files in default path… not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the libmagic distribution

Solution : Please make sure file and file-devel are installed. (Please use the latest rpmforge-release package)

yum install file
yum install file-devel

Then just rerun the "./configure" command and complete the install

To confirm Fileinfo extension is installed properly, please use following command.

php -m |grep fileinfo

php -i |grep fileinfo