Enabling/installing GD extension? --without-gd

Question

How does one enable (or perhaps I need to install) GD when my phpinfo() output in \"Configure Command\" says; --without-gd ?

I also have nothing in my phpinfo() outp

Answer 1

In CentOS (but the same may apply to other distros too) if you install the php7x-gd module followed by Apache restart and still the php -i does not show the GD Support => enabled it might mean that the php.ini was not automatically configured to support this extension.

All you have to to is either to edit the /etc/php/php.ini or to create a /etc/php.d/gd.ini file with the following content:

[gd]
extension=/path/to/gd.so # use the gd.so absolute path here

Answer 2

I've PHP 7.3 and Nginx 1.14 on Ubuntu 18.

# it installs php7.3-gd for the moment
# and restarts PHP 7.3 FastCGI Process Manager: php-fpm7.3.
sudo apt-get install php-gd

# after I've restarted Nginx
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

Works!

Answer 3

For php7.1 do:

sudo apt-get install php7.1-gd

and restart webserver. For apache do

sudo service apache2 restart