[Typo3-debian] MySQL connection error while trying to install TYPO3

[Jordan van Bergen]

Hi Michael / All,

> apt-get install php4-gd2
> (Should be installed already!)
> Then go ahead and scroll down to the end of your php.ini.
> The relevant line must look like this:
> extension=gd.so
> If there is a semicolon in front of it (which comments the line out) you
> need to remove this.
> Then you restart Apache and try again.

This helped on my testing server environment. I'm now ready to put the
website live on the production server. I'm not a 100% linux debian guru so I
was happy to see that the apt-get install typo3-env didn't screw up the
running system. It installed over 59 Mb's of data/libraries and everything
went okay....

Now for the problem:

As described above I had the same problems again with GDlib v2.0. It's
perfectly installed. I added the line
extension=gd.so in my php.ini and restarted apache. This goes okay, but when
I enter phpinfo(); I don't see a GD entry. So I think GD is not started
or???

When I go to typo3, login as admin and try to make a new page I get the
following error message on the live (to be) production server:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefrompng() in
/var/lib/typo3/typo3_src-3.5.0/t3lib/class.t3lib_iconworks.php on line 241

I assume this has to do with the GDlib v2.0 that's not started correctly? Am
I wrong or correct? If I'm correct how do I get the gdlib v2.0 to be
correctly started?

I have the following in php.ini:
extension=gd.so

If I look where this file is on the webserver I see the following, locate
gd.so:

/usr/lib/libgd.so.1
/usr/lib/libgd.so.1.8.4
/usr/lib/libgd.so.2
/usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.1
/usr/lib/php4/20020429/gd.so

Is this correct???? On my testserver it looks the same and the gd.so are
equal in filesize.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards

Jordan van Bergen
jordanvanbergen at hotmail.com