GD Library extension not available with this PHP installation Ubuntu Nginx

Question

I am using Laravel web framework on my ubuntu 14.04 server and Nginx web server, I have this error when I try to upload a file using <

Answer 1

In my case under Archlinux:

pacman -S php-gd 

php-gd

then in your php.ini for me in /etc/php/php.ini uncomment line ;extension=gd.so by removing semicolon.

Don't forget to restart the server.