By syquest on

Hello Everyone,

I'm having persistent problems with the installation and configuation of the GD module for PHP. I’ve read the other posts concerning this topic and I revised the php.ini file as instructed. However, upon doing a phpinfo test, the GD module still doesn’t appear. And of course, I continue to receive the following message at the Settings page:

“The built-in GD image toolkit requires that the GD module for PHP be installed and configured properly. For more information see http://php.net/image.”

Should you be kind enough to offer an explanation of solution, please consider that I am rather new to PHP, MySQL, and Drupal. Following are my specifications:

Mac OS 10.4.6
Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin)
PHP/4.4.1
MySQL 4.1.13a

Thank you.

Comments

Stefan Nagtegaal’s picture

Stefan Nagtegaal commented

I advise you to update PHP to at least 4.3 which is the minimal PHP version required for drupal anyway.
With PHP 4.3 comes a built-in version of GD..

Good luck!

DriesK’s picture

DriesK commented

On OSX Tiger, PHP is installed without the GD library, so you'll have to recompile PHP to include this library.

There is a great tutorial on developer.apple.com: PHP on Mac OSX. It specifically deals with GD as well.

You may also be interested in reading: Installing Drupal on Tiger.

paddy_deburca’s picture

paddy_deburca commented

If this is your own configuration, go to http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/ and download and install PHP 4.3 for Apache 1.3.

Normally this distribution comes with GD support compiled in.

Paddy.

http://deburca.org, and http://amadain.net

Paddy.

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syquest’s picture

syquest commented

Thank you for your suggestions. But I don't understand why I am being instructed to UPGRADE to PHP 4.3 when I have PHP 4.4.

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syquest commented

I did what was suggested: "upgraded" to 4.3 and now I can't connect to Drupal or PHPmyadmin. Please help.

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syquest commented

I solved my problem and have reestablished my connection. The solution follows...

1. Downloaded the application MySQL Query Browser

2. Entered the following in the MySQL Query shell>

SET PASSWORD FOR XXXX@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD('YYYYl');

3. Opened Terminal and restarted Apache by entered the following into the shell>

sudo apachectl graceful

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Note: In step 2 above X=user and Y=password