Need image utils but server appears to have none installed! Rv!

Hi all,
I've tried to call GD services and they fail.

Does anyone have a simple way of scanning the servier to find out what they
have installed.

Check http://www.premierdisco.co.uk/phpinfo.php for a PHPINFO() output
if this helps.

I'd appreciate any help possible in gaining the ability to upload a photo al
bum with
autimatick thimbnails. I'd rather not build them here are there's a few of u
s that
would be uploading the the album.

Robert

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> I've tried to call GD services and they fail.
>
> Does anyone have a simple way of scanning the servier to find out what the
y
> have installed.
>
> Check http://www.premierdisco.co.uk/phpinfo.php for a PHPINFO() output
> if this helps.
>

I'm no expert at that sort of thing - but from a quick look GD fails
because like you say GD isnt installed on your web server .

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph...mierdisco.co.uk

Probably best if you contact fasthosts or whatever fasthosts reseller
you use to ask about the issue .


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Krustov contained the following:

>I'm no expert at that sort of thing - but from a quick look GD fails
>because like you say GD isnt installed on your web server .
>
>http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph...mierdisco.co.uk
>
>Probably best if you contact fasthosts or whatever fasthosts reseller
>you use to ask about the issue .

I seem to recall you can't resize images on the windoze boxes.
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Geoff Berrow wrote:
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> Krustov contained the following:
> 
>
> I seem to recall you can't resize images on the windoze boxes.

That would have to be a long time ago.

W2k Pro (yes, I use Windows at the moment, a linux server will be used in
about 2 months..) can do it perfectly here, resizing, adding
semi-transparant borders, rotating, the whole lot. And I seem to recall that
at the time on my first encounter (brief at that time) with PHP in 2002 it
wasn't a problem either.

Not that I wouldn't recommend a real server instead of Windows, unless you
really really need COM.

Grtz,
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contained the following:
 
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>That would have to be a long time ago.
>
>W2k Pro (yes, I use Windows at the moment, a linux server will be used in
>about 2 months..) can do it perfectly here, resizing, adding
>semi-transparant borders, rotating, the whole lot. And I seem to recall tha
t
>at the time on my first encounter (brief at that time) with PHP in 2002 it
>wasn't a problem either.

I meant on Fasthosts.  I have a friend with a reseller account.

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Geoff Berrow wrote:
> Message-ID: <32cca$44bad9af$8259c69c$23665@news1.tudelft.nl> from Rik
> contained the following: 
> I meant on Fasthosts.  I have a friend with a reseller account.

Ah check, didn't get that, my apologies.

Grtz,
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"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@
> I meant on Fasthosts.  I have a friend with a reseller account.

They don't mention that anywhere do they? Seems a major oversight
that they forget to tell folk. I've emailed support for an update.

Robert

Follow up...
Email from provider states...
>The GD libraries are only available on the Linux hosting platform I'm afrai
d, not on the windows
>hosting.

Pain in the butt. Why do they not document this. The bloody services cost th
e same.
If they'd produced this information in advance I would have went with the *n
ix server.

Rv!

Another email from them...so disappointing a service...
Thanks for contacting us with your support enquiry.
You cant change from Windows to Linux on the standard accounts, you will nee
d to do the following
to have this done:
* Download all your emails and back up your website.
* If you have a DNS or ODBC data source created on your control panel, delet
e it before
proceeding to the next step.
* Park and delete your domain name from your old control panel:
http://xtreme.fasthosts.co.uk/kbv.exe?wrap=1&ID=44 - How to park a domain
Warning: Parking the domain name will delete all files in your web space, al
l your email and all
configuration.
Adding your domain to your new hosting account:
* Sign up for a new hosting account with you desired specifications at
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/hosting/
* Once the new account is set up you can contact our customer services team 
on
support@fasthosts.co.uk or call us on 0870 8883600 to request the old accoun
t to be closed, don't
forget to include your owner password when requesting your account to be clo
sed and just include
the reason for cancellation.
If you want to do all this over the phone then you can have a word with our 
sales department who
will do this for you, they can be contact on the same number with the sales 
option after 09:00
Monday to Friday.
We don't document any server configuration details to customers I'm afraid b
ut you can confirm
details of this nature with us again in the future when needed.

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>They don't mention that anywhere do they? Seems a major oversight
>that they forget to tell folk. I've emailed support for an update.

They don't mention a lot of things.  Like when they change stuff that
breaks scripts without telling anyone.  The latest thing was when a
bunch of mail scripts stopped working.  Didn't know about it until the
client complained.

I wouldn't have an account with them.

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