Linux – Php5-gd error linux

actually, what James Hackett said was more or less what worked for me.

My problem wasa that I built PHP before I installed Apache (I built PHP from latest trunk and installed Apache2 via APT).

So when I encountered the error that apache encountered an undefined symbol (the module which is not found is arbitrary btw.), I did the following:

1. make distclean on the php source
2. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php-5.3-svn --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2
3. make && make install

and everything worked just fine.

Captain obvious was hiding from me, of course since if you just remake without make distclean && configure, make just compiles the new symbols which obviously is not enough ;-)

I see two issues here, but I suspect you have more than whats visible from what you posted.

The reason why on your terminal you get the message that php is not installed, is because the php binary is not in your default search path.

according to your --configure your php is in /home/usr/local/php5 (which i personally feel is a weird location). Now if you just enter php on the CLI, bash will not check in this directory for the php executable, so you have to run it with the whole path. it should be something like /home/usr/local/php5/bin/php i think.

If you want to make it available by default with just entering php, do this first ln -s /home/usr/local/php5/bin/php /bin/php. then Bash should be able to find it by itself if you just enter php.

The other problem is that you are using to configure parameters which simply don't exist. You can see the available configure parameters by doing ./configure --help in the source directory of php.

I forgot one: for verifying if the php module was loaded in apache or not, you can use apache's mod_info. It tells you which modules were loaded successfully. If you see in the mod_info output that the PHP module wasn't loaded, then you should probably check apaches output on startup. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_info.html