GD Library extension not available with this PHP installation Ubuntu Nginx

Question

I am using Laravel web framework on my ubuntu 14.04 server and Nginx web server, I have this error when I try to upload a file using Laravel to the server. my upload directory is on the public/uploads folder that has 777 permission.

Answer 1

The GD Graphics Library is for dynamically manipulating images. For Ubuntu you should install it manually:

• PHP5: sudo apt-get install php5-gd
• PHP7.0: sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd
• PHP7.1: sudo apt-get install php7.1-gd
• PHP7.2: sudo apt-get install php7.2-gd
• PHP7.3: sudo apt-get install php7.3-gd
• PHP7.4: sudo apt-get install php7.4-gd
• PHP8.0: sudo apt-get install php8.0-gd
• PHP8.1: sudo apt-get install php8.1-gd

That's all, you can verify that GD support loaded:

php -i | grep -i gd 

Output should be like this:

GD Support => enabled GD headers Version => 2.1.1-dev gd.jpeg_ignore_warning => 0 => 0 

and finally restart your apache:

sudo service apache2 restart 

Answer 2

window users using xampp apache server.

Go to php folder in xampp and open the php.ini and php configurations settings file, and change the line ;extension=gd2 or the line ;extension=gd to just extension=gd2

NB that php version 8 is stored as ;extension=gd