Problem with GD Module in PHP, Win98 and Apache
 

Ok, I'm trying to install Smiliecreator from the hacks section here. I've installed it, works fine except the graphic doesn't show up. I figured out that I don't have GD running.

System Configuration:

Win98
Apache 2.02
PHP 4.3.1

I edited my php.ini file to turn on the php_g2.dll module, but when I went to load my site, Apache took a nose dive and wouldn't load it. Commenting out the dynamic module

;extension=php_gd2.dll

stopped the slow loading but that didn't solve the GD problem. I did some searching and found out that perhaps the problem was that php needed to be loaded as an Apache module rather than as a CGI, so I switched it over. I took the comment out of the dynamic module section and Apache loads fine, but I can't get GD to load (a phpinfo doesn't show it as coming up). Any ideas?

I finally got it working. I went back to the php site and downloaded the .zip package instead of the installer. Then, I made copies of all the DLLs and put them into the /windows/system directory. After that I copied gd and gd2 to the main php directory. That seemed to do the trick.

FWIW, working with pretty much any web development sucks *** in Windows 98 (or another 95-based OS), mainly due to the lack of good services support. I very strongly suggest you use 2000 or XP.