problem with GD image extension on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 uses Apache with PHP-FPM instead of mod_php. So you need to restart the php-fpm process to reload PHP with the new extension.

sudo systemctl restart php-fpm

I'm running php 7.2.14 on Amazon Linux 2 and this worked for me:

$ sudo yum update -y
$ sudo yum install -y php-gd
$ sudo reboot

And solved... Turns out restarting apache with

sudo systemctl restart httpd

wasn't enough to load the newly installed component...

what i needed to do was

sudo reboot

and everything works...

Why did't i try that 24 hours ago!

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