Error: the GD library is not installed

rpkane

this notice came up seemingly randomly (the site, which I am installing now, went down for a couple of minutes, then came back up with this error on the pictures). now when I click a thumbnail, the picture that displays on the image page says "error: the GD library not installed". No clue what caused this or how to solve it... Any suggestions?

p.s. my host is ASmallOrange and it seems to have all the latest Apache/PHP updates and a wide variety of scripts

thanks,
Ryan

Chilifrei64

create a file with the following contents

`<?php`
`phpinfo();`
`?>`
and upload it to your server and run it. Make sure it says that the GD library is installed

rpkane

OK: http://mariannecontiburt.com/gallery/test.php

I don't see GD library on there -- I also noted that the "build date" is Jul 19 2007 at 23:49:15, which if I recall is about the time the server went down and then came back up with GD library errors.

Is this purely a server issue do you think, or something the user has any control over?

rpkane

I finally got a support response from my host, and it does seem to be a server issue -- evidently they are updating PHP and Apache at the moment and the GD library is one of the temporary casualties