Everything seemed complete after configuring my standalone MySQL instance to a LAMP
installation, but last night I started playing with the image
files. It turns out that I failed to install the
php-gd library.
There’s very little feedback when you try to troubleshoot why you
can’t read an image. In fact, the error message for reading the
BLOB from MySQL was only available on the local
Firefox browser:
The image "http://localhost/ConvertMySQLBlobToImage.php" cannot be displayed because it contains errors.
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The fix requires root to install the
php-gd library with the yum utility:
yum install php-gd |
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