Enabling Gd Extensions On Server..help Urgent>

RRicart · 01-08-2007, 12:21 AM

Hello Everyone,

I have purchased a visual dedicated server from Godaddy and I am a bit confused since I am an amateur at these things...
I am trying to enable or add the GD EXTENSIONS or GD LIBRARIES and I dont know if they are enabled..

I ran phpinfo and I dont see the option for GD on the lsit..so I donwloaded PHP4 from the PHP website that has GD included in it but I dont know where to upload these files to.....Please help....

I am willing to pay someone for help...but would appreciate some feedback...

Thanks!
RR

thedonkdonk · 01-08-2007, 08:48 AM

I assume this is a Linux server. If you have some kind of rpm distro, ie Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, you can use yum for an easy install.
sudo yum install php-gd
That should get you what you need. I don’t have a debian distro in front of me but apt-get should do the same thing. If this doesn’t work, let me know what OS you are using and i can be more specific.

RRicart · 01-08-2007, 11:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedonkdonk

I assume this is a Linux server. If you have some kind of rpm distro, ie Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, you can use yum for an easy install.
sudo yum install php-gd
That should get you what you need. I don’t have a debian distro in front of me but apt-get should do the same thing. If this doesn’t work, let me know what OS you are using and i can be more specific.

Okay - is that a command -? The server is UNIX.... so should I copy and paste waht you wrote and paste it in the SSH command prompt? please let me know - I greatly apprecaite the help.

thedonkdonk · 01-09-2007, 10:22 PM

Yes. on the command line. the break down:
sudo -- a program that lets you pretend to be someone else, in this case the root user. short for pseudonym.
yum -- a program that downloads other programs from a repository. short for Yellow dog Updater, Modified
install -- a arguments for yum. most programs have arguments in linux.
php-gd -- this is the name of the package you are looking to install.

if this does not work please type on your command line:
cat /etc/issue
and post what the out put is.

good luck

RRicart · 01-10-2007, 12:01 AM

Hey tehre - I really appreciate your help...
wehn i typed cat /etc/issue

I received this message..

fedora cCore release 4 (Stenz)
Kernel \r on an \m

I dont know what any of that means :-)

Thanks again...

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedonkdonk

Yes. on the command line. the break down:
sudo -- a program that lets you pretend to be someone else, in this case the root user. short for pseudonym.
yum -- a program that downloads other programs from a repository. short for Yellow dog Updater, Modified
install -- a arguments for yum. most programs have arguments in linux.
php-gd -- this is the name of the package you are looking to install.

if this does not work please type on your command line:
cat /etc/issue
and post what the out put is.

good luck

thedonkdonk · 01-10-2007, 09:07 AM

ok please log in to your server as the root user. type on your command line:
yum -y install php-gd

If this does not work please send me a private email with your contact info and i will walk you thru it.

RRicart · 01-11-2007, 11:07 PM

Hey There buddy...
This is the mssg I got back....

-bash: yum: command not found

I'll email you my contact info :-) thank you so much!

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedonkdonk

ok please log in to your server as the root user. type on your command line:
yum -y install php-gd

If this does not work please send me a private email with your contact info and i will walk you thru it.