{"id":2929,"date":"2012-11-29T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2018-11-25T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T16:49:19","slug":"installing-the-gd-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/aws-ec2\/installing-the-gd-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing the GD Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I just posted this description in the post I wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/wordpress\/how-to-make-wordpress-auto-thumbnails-work\/\" title=\"How to Make WordPress Auto-Thumbnails Work\">how to make WordPress Auto-Thumbnails work<\/a>, I thought I would also post those instructions straight up as a pointer for anyone out there who is looking for the command required to install the GD Library in their LAMP setup, so here it is:<\/p>\n<h3>How to Install GD Library on your LAMP Server<\/h3>\n<p>On a centos system, the following command in your SSH terminal will install the GD Library:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>yum install php-gd<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve hit &#8220;y&#8221; and the installation has completed, because this is used by PHP scripts, and is therefore loaded when Apache starts, you&#8217;ll also need to restart your apache web server using the following command:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>service httpd restart<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The above should work on most versions of Centos Linux. You may need to do type &#8220;sudo -i&#8221; and hit return before doing the above, depending upon your permissions and setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I just posted this description in the post I wrote on how to make WordPress Auto-Thumbnails work, I thought I would also post those instructions straight up as a pointer for anyone out there who is looking for the command required to install the GD Library in their LAMP setup, so here it is: &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Installing the GD Library\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/aws-ec2\/installing-the-gd-library\/#more-2929\" aria-label=\"Read more about Installing the GD Library\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[82,644,953,1565,1660,1967],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}