How to install GD/Curl on a cPanel server

In cPanel servers, the safest way to install PHP modules is to use the cPanel script for Apache-PHP compilation. You can do this as follows.

WHM login >> Main >> Software >> Apache Update
Or from the console execute /scripts/easyapache

Go through each step as follows.

1. Click “start customizing based on profile”
2. Select Apache Version - Click Next to proceed with the current version.
3. Select PHP Major Version - Click Next to proceed with the current version.
4. Select PHP Minor version - Click Next to proceed with the current version.
5. Short option list - Click Exhaustive Options List to view full options.
6 Exhaustive Options List - From here you can select the PHP modules you needed
In this case you need to select ‘GD’ and/or ‘CURL’
7. Click Save & Build to start apache-php compilation.

Once the compilation over you can verify the installed modules using the following command.