Image Problems

[Anon]

I must be doing something wrong here. I set up gd, php4 and php4-gd so I can make images. But whenever I try to load the images on many different scripts, it gives me broken links. Direct accessing the php3 files reveals "Page Cannot be Displayed", and lynx -source says

HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access `http://host.domain.com/myimage.php3'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

Any ideas what the hell I've done wrong? Did I not install some binary? phpinfo(); reveals support for

"GD Support enabled
GD Version between 1.3 and 1.6.1
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with TTF library
GIF Support enabled"

So what have I done wrong? I've used many scripts I've fetched off the web, but it does nothing. There's gotta be something set wrong.

Thanks,

Mike

[Anon]

I don't know enough about your setup to make an exact ansewr, but I nkow for me that the defauly included stuff neevr works right, what I did was went and got teh latest (1.8.3) GD and compiled it and installed it to /opt/gd and then its all easy from there on it (Except php thinks that GIF support works, but I think thats fixed) but then you can't make GIFs, only jpegs, xpm's and png's which is much better anyways. Thats my $.02 though, then you just pass --with=gd=/opt/gd

and possible --with-jpeg-path=/opt/jpeg

and stuff like that. If you are interested and need more details, email me and I'll give you more.

[Anon]

OK I'm going to try to go for 1.8.3. I don't like the lack of the ability to make PNG, but that's OK. The only problem I have now is that it doesn't seem to let me make any images. How can I recompile PHP 4.0 when I used RPM's to install it? If I just want to change the --with-gd option, for instance. Right now I it's set at --with-gd=shared but when I try ImageImageCreateFromPng it says that it's an unknown function. God... this used to be so damn easy. Now it's incredibly difficult.

[Anon]

OK I'm going to try to go for 1.8.3. I don't like the lack of the ability to make PNG, but that's OK. The only problem I have now is that it doesn't seem to let me make any images. How can I recompile PHP 4.0 when I used RPM's to install it? If I just want to change the --with-gd option, for instance. Right now I it's set at --with-gd=shared but when I try ImageImageCreateFromPng it says that it's an unknown function. God... this used to be so damn easy. Now it's incredibly difficult.

[Anon]

OK I'm going to try to go for 1.8.3. I don't like the lack of the ability to make PNG, but that's OK. The only problem I have now is that it doesn't seem to let me make any images. How can I recompile PHP 4.0 when I used RPM's to install it? If I just want to change the --with-gd option, for instance. Right now I it's set at --with-gd=shared but when I try ImageImageCreateFromPng it says that it's an unknown function. God... this used to be so damn easy. Now it's incredibly difficult.

[Anon]

OK, I rpm -e'd everything GD-related and installed 1.3.6, and now it works fine. Finally!!!

Thanks,

Mike