PHP and GD2 problem on Windows 2K3 IIS6

Justin98TransAm

I've got PHP installed and working fine it runs my vbulletin perfect. but if I try to enable php_gd2.dll from the php.ini file it locks up. no php functions will work until I comment that extension back out again, then it's fine. I've made sure that the php_gd2.dll file is in the proper location, I even tried copying it to a bunch of different system locations but still nada. any help would be greatly appriciated.

thanks,

toxic_brain

try using xamp, all in one package for windows, very easy to install.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/

gd is inbuilt for in xamp

Justin98TransAm

I'm running IIS it's working fine except for the gd2.dll extension. I'm sure I don't have something configured correctly. I don't want to install apache and a bunch of other junk to fix this minor issue.

bradgrafelman

First thing, is display_startup_errors set to On in php.ini ?

If you do a phpinfo(), does it show the correct path to your php.ini file as well as extension_dir ?

Have you added the PHP install directory to the system PATH environment variable? Have you copied the files in PHP_INSTALL_DIR\dlls to PHP_INSTALL_DIR\ (substitue PHP_INSTALL_DIR for wherever you decided to install PHP) ?

Lastly, what version of PHP are you running?