How to - Enable GD?

[chakorules]

Does anyone know of a website or something on how to enable GD on a Red Hat 7.3 box? I am not even sure how to check if it's installed, but I know that it's not enabled on my server and was wondering if anyone had a reference or could give out some pointers on getting GD enabled.

Thanks!

[wnorris]

i assume you are talking about using gd with php... as of 4.2.0 or so, it is installed by default.

if you want to install it by itself, check its homepage... http://www.boutell.com/gd/

to see if it's enabled, use either phpinfo() or gd_info(). (gd_info will need to be passed to print_r() for it to be readable)

[chakorules]

hmmm...It appears that GD is not even installed. I thought that it would have already been installed by default but I guess not. Does anyone else have GD installed on their server?

[vabtz]

I do..

If you have a current version of PHP it should be installed by default.

[vabtz]

Sorry I see that was already pointed out. Are you on a plain redhat server or do you have a control panel installed ?

[chakorules]

I have CPanel / Whm installed. It comes with PHP you say?

[QT]

Originally posted by chakorules
Does anyone know of a website or something on how to enable GD on a Red Hat 7.3 box? I am not even sure how to check if it's installed, but I know that it's not enabled on my server and was wondering if anyone had a reference or could give out some pointers on getting GD enabled.

Thanks!


Here is another thread with some more information:

http://serverbeach.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=483

[chakorules]

Sweet thread. QT!

I am in exactly the SAME boat as "frontend". I have a RH 7.3, Cpanel and GD is not working....man so according to all that information in the other thread I gotta recompile PHP...bummer....Hope I don't break anything ;-).