Compile or configure? GD for PHP

webicity · Unread post by **webicity** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:17 pm

Somehow my server was configured without GD enabled for PHP. I found an RPM and installed it but GD does not appear active in phpinfo.php. Can GD be enabled in php.ini somehow? Someone said that PHP needs to be recompiled. How is that done? Are there dangers? I have a lot that depends on running php, not the least of which is Plesk. (Running php-4.3.9-3.9 and Plesk 7.5.4 under RHEL 4 ES). My goal is to enable a form security feature that requires GD.

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:08 pm

the design of php has separated GD from the main package, you need to install the package php-gd (yum install php-gd/up2date -i php-gd), and restart the webserver

webicity · Unread post by **webicity** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:35 pm

That worked perfectly. Thanks!

I'm sure glad I asked the question here.