Linux GD installation

Stevil

Hey all,

The company I work for us up an changed servers on me and whilst copying over all the software I've written I noticed GD wasn't installed.

The new server is a linux box which is my down fall since I've only ever setup servers on windows machines nad things are starting to be come daunting for myself.

Everywhere I look says to add in '--with=gd' into the configure line. Before I ran this I checked phpinfo() for current configure options and in the end I had:

./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with=gd

I ran this but it didn't solve my problem 🙁 the command itself worked but just doesn't show up in php.

Is this ment to be done on the initial install or can it be done after the fact? As when I tried this it was on a pre-installed version of PHP.

In windows I can manage this on my own simple enough but on linux I have no clue what so ever, any help you may have to offer would be GREATLY appreicated.

Stevil

LordShryku

After re-running the ./configure, did you do a make and a make install?

Stevil

I hadn't yet no... I just tried it then though and got errors. Someone I showed the error to seems to think I may need flags when making the install to show which path to install to. The error I got was:

Installing PHP CLI binary: /usr/local/bin/
Installing PHP CLI man page: /usr/local/man/man1/
Installing PHP SAPI module: apache
[activating module `php4' in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf]
cp libs/libphp4.so /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so
cp: libs/libphp4.so: No such file or directory
apxs:Break: Command failed with rc=1
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/root/php-4.3.4.

Looking at it I thought it may be a problem with the apache setup, but as I said I've never done this (or anything else for that matter) on a linux machine before and am rather lost.

LordShryku

Yeah, that looks like an error in apache, not gd.
Make sure the file apxs is in /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
Also, is this apache 2.x or 1.3.x?

Stevil

its apache 1.3.29

The /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs file exisits, could it possibly be libs/libphp4.so file? If so would that be in the httpd.conf file? Thanks heap for your help 🙂

Stevil

I just got into my conf file and found the line

LoadModule php4_module /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so

this file also exists, yet in the errors seems to be the file missing.
"cp: libs/libphp4.so: No such file or directory"

LordShryku

Does libphp4.so exist in /usr/root/php-4.3.4/libs?

Stevil

Ahhhh nope, that file appears to be missing :-s I'm currently at home and don't know the remote password to access it off the top of my head.

When I get back into work on monday I'll copy the file from

/usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so

/usr/root/php-4.3.4/libs/libphp4.so

And get back to you with what happpens 🙂 Thanks HEAPS for your help.

Stevil

I've been having some computer problems but I'm finally back.

Copying that file over allowed me to recompile 😃 Thanks heaps. Alas the compile did not fix my GD woes 🙁

I've been searching the machine and found a directory which contains GD files:-

/usr/root/php-4.3.4/ext/gd/libgd/gd2copypal.c
/usr/root/php-4.3.4/ext/gd/libgd/gd2time.c
/usr/root/php-4.3.4/ext/gd/libgd/gd2topng.c
/usr/root/php-4.3.4/ext/gd/libgd/gd_gd2.c
/usr/root/php-4.3.4/ext/gd/libgd/pngtogd2.c

Do I have to complie GD to get it to work aswell? in the php.ini for gd it looks for php_gd2.dll which isn't on the machine which is what makes me thinks it may need to be compiled/installed.

I'm still not sure if it matters to much atm anyways as the with gd is still missing from my configuration line.

From phpinfo()
"Configure Command './configure' '--with-mysql' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs'"

I'm going to try to configure and compile it again BUT any advice you may have to offer for setuping GD and if it needs to be compiled would be muchly appreicated.

Stevil