Activating GDlib on PHP 4.3.10?

I'm running PHP 4.3.10 on a dedicated Fedora Linux server and I'm trying to get the GDlib to work... Fasthosts (the company) tell me that I need to modify the php.ini file, but the file is very sparse and putting in extension=gd.so doesn't work (gd.so isn't in the usr/lib/php4 folder anyway, which is where it appears it should be)... I'm a novice when it comes to managing my own server, does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do?

 

Don't you have to recompile php to add gd?

 

Read all about it here. The gd library has been bundled with php since 4.3 and it looks like you'll need to recompile.

 

On a linux server the GD library has to be compiled into php. It is easy enough if you have cPanel/WHM. Not so easy if you don't have access to that. If you are on a shared host they would have to compile PHP to include the GD libraries.

 

PS: Upgrade to 4.3.11.

 

Its a dedicated server... I don't have cPanel, I have matrix panel. Does anyone know if recompiling PHP will result in losing my existing data and databases?

 

What does PHP have to do with MySql?

The short answer is no, but I'm not your admin.

 

I've just never done this before... until now... the distinctions are so muchclearer from this side

Oh, and took the advice about 4.3.11 (OK, so I may not know how, but I know a man who knew how )

 

Glad to hear that worked out for ya.

 

In WHM how do we do that ???

 

yum install php-gd

in WHM you have to go to WHM > apache update
see this: http://mysql-apache-php.com/centos-lamp-server.htm