XMLRPC problems with Wordpress

[kristian]

A customer of ours have contacted us regarding a problem with xmlrpc. It's best described here, so I won't go into details in this post:

http://www.johncow.com/html-tags-getting-stripped-out-of-wordpress-via-xmlrpc/

Their suggested fix is "A) This is ultimately resolved with the release of PHP 5.2.9 and libxml2 2.7.3. –> So see if your host will do that for you".

I'm currently running PHP 5.2.11 though, and phpinfo() says "libxml2 Version 2.7.2". The OS is CentOS 5.4, and it says:

# rpm -qa | grep libxml2
libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8

Firstly, I'm not sure why phpinfo() reports a newer version of libxml2 than what I have installed.

Secondly, I'm not sure how I should go about fixing the problem, as the CentOS package is the latest available version, and PHP is well above the fixed version.

Any suggestions? All help appreciated!

 

[ranz]

You can probably compile the latest version of libxml into custombuild:

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29824

Martynas (smtalk) is here somewhere could probably point you in the right direction.

 

[kristian]

Ah yes, didn't notice that custombuild actually builds libxml2 itself. Should be able to sort it out then. Thanks for the feedback.