Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

[Michael Powell]

Andy Wodfer wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE.
> 
> I can't get GD enabled. I have installed latestes php5 from ports aswell
> as php5-extensions and enabled GD on the option screen:
> 
> cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
> make deinstall
> make clean
> make rmconfig
> make install clean
> 
> cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions
> make deinstall
> make clean
> make rmconfig
> make install clean
> 
> I'm running the latest Apache 2.2.x version and GD 2.0.35.
> 
> I'm currently doing a portupgrade -a to see if that helps, but I think
> not.
> 
> What's the correct way of getting GD to work on Ie. a webshop (opencart)?
> 

I'm having the exact same problem. Have done the above manual 
rebuild/reinstall for php52-gd and gd. Have done portupgrade -fr php52-gd so 
far, but got called away before I tried the -fr on gd so it would rebuild 
the jpeg/png libraries. Was going to try that next.

The .so is present in the correct location, the line is present in php.ini 
and phpinfo, pgp -m, and php -i all show the module loaded. I run PHP here 
as FastCGI and everything but gd works as expected.

httpd-error.log is only showing me this:

[Thu Sep 23 18:22:06 2010] [error] [client 192.168.10.2] Premature end of 
script headers: antibot_image.php, referer: 

https://flintriver.test.zip/help.php?section=contactus&mode=update
[Thu Sep 23 18:22:08 2010] [error] mod_fcgid: process /usr/local/bin/php-
cgi(1317) exit(communication error), get unexpected signal 6

Had this problem once before a long time ago and the rebuild/reinstall dance 
took care of it at that time and I forgot about it. This time seems 
different somehow and running out of ideas fast.

-Mike