Apple, would you please tell me why you do not include the GD libraries as part of the out-of-the-box install for Leopard Server? As if that wasn’t bad enough, why then is it so difficult for me to install them? All of the tutorials I have found on the Internet are either too old, or much too complicated. And even if I install these libraries successfully, the next update to the system will probably break them. Dumb.
I think that you’d realize that most of your education customers would want to install Moodle (including yours truly), but you cannot without the graphic libraries. Wouldn’t it be easier to include them as part of your standard Apache/PHP install? I want to use a theme for my WordPress install that uses Timthumb, but that requires the GD libraries.I guess I could turn off Apple’s install of Apache/PHP, etc., but sheesh. One of the reasons to use Mac OS X Server is for ease of administration. Yeah.
I’ve even started looking into installing Debian on my Xserve instead. It would be much simpler. What do you think, Apple?
OK, I did get this taken care of. I installed a pre-compiled version of PHP 5 (thanks to Mark Liyanage), upgraded Leopard Server to Apache 2.2, and somehow managed to load the right extension in the GUI. Cool, but still much more difficult than it should have been.