GD & ImageMagick Woes

[joeswann]

Hello,

I am in charge of the web server for our school system. One of our schools uses Joomla! and they have installed some components to run photo galleries. These pieces appear to need GD and/or ImageMagick to generate thumbnails on the fly.

This is a new Xserve (unpacked in January). I had thought GD was on out of the box but the PHP info page doesn’t mention it at all. I have tried installing this software through FinkCommander and restarting Apache but with no luck.

If anyone can give me some help I sure would appreciate it. I will warn you up front, my UNIX skills can easily fit in a thimble. (What, you ask, are you doing running a web server? The best I can in the job I find myself.)

[joeswann]

Thanks for your reply.

The only packages listed there that I saw are for Jaguar and Panther. Do you think the Panther package would work on a Tiger server?

[Willem Lang]

GD install is doable….

Just go here: http://osx.topicdesk.com/downloads/ and download the PDF’s.

I did install the Libs with just Dev tools and did not get it to work with apache. I then downloaded a new PHP version 4.4.7 and recompiled that for GD and it now works flawless…

Willem Lang
AppleISP

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