Installing PHP with GD support on RHL8.0

[majik]

Don't know why I didn't try this earlier, but i tried running ./configure without any --with-gd and it still returned with the error:

configure: error: Cannot find header files under /usr/local

Which of course, would mean that GD has nothing to do with the problem I'm having.

[Dolda2000]

I downloaded the PHP configure script, and it's only the MySQL configuration that generates that kind of error message. Try excluding the directories from the mysql and gd options (ie. just --with-msql and --with-gd), and see if that helps.

[majik]

Yes after posting the msg about exlcuding --with-gd, I stared at my configurations tring and saw that the only one using /usr/local was mysql.

Actually, before I saw your last reply, i tried without the --with-mysql ONLY (in other words, I did include --with-gd) and the configuration went all the way through without errors!

Now, to fix the mysql error

[majik]

i tried --with-mysql=/usr instead of the original --with-mysql=/usr/local and the configuration went all the way through without complaining. "make" worked as well, as did "make install" so now made sure I had AddType application/x-httpd-php .php on the httpd.conf file, which I did. I created a .php file with text inside and outside the php tags, opened up mozilla, pointed my browser to http://localhost , and the page loaded but w/out the php stuff

This is enough for me for tonight, I'll be nitpicking it tomrrow.

Dolda2000, thanks for your all your help

[majik]

opened up mozilla, pointed my browser to http://localhost , and the page loaded but w/out the php stuff

i opened the file and saw that i only had

<? phpinfo&#40;&#41; ?>

argh!! the tag was not correct. i corrected it to:

<?php phpinfo&#40;&#41; ?>

and sure enough the php stuff loaded. :P

Once again, thanks Dolda2000 for going through this with me

[wassy121]

it is great to see 3-4 problems a day resolved around here. Thanks Dolda