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m.edmondson
m.edmondson

Reputation: 30862

Installing Drupal - missing extension 'gd'

I'm attempting to install Drupal on an Windows / Apache / PHP box. When running the install script 'install.php' I'm told that the extension gd is not installed.

My PHP ini file has it enabled:

...
;extension=php_curl.dll
;extension=php_fileinfo.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
;extension=php_gettext.dll
;extension=php_gmp.dll
...

I have restarted the server.

Looking inside the install script I can see it is using if(extension_loaded ('gd')) to discover the extension, which returns false. phpinfo(); only mentions it within the 'PHP Credits' section at the bottom.

I've followed all the instructions I can find, all of which boil down to uncommenting it in the php.ini file.

Could someone point me in the right direction?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2428

Answers (1)

m.edmondson
m.edmondson

Reputation: 30862

Turned out to be a 'read the manual' moment.

I hadn't set the default extension directory via:

extension_dir = C:\php\ext

as I assumed it would be relative within the downloaded installation. I eventually discovered this by reading the apache logs.

Upvotes: 2

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