appengine won't enable php-gd via php.ini or composer.json

[Eli Taylor]

I'm trying to deploy a Drupal 8 application where the project root includes the composer.json, app.yaml, and php.ini, while the web doc root is `/web`

`composer install` errors with "The requested PHP extension ext-gd * is missing from your system. Install or enable PHP's gd extension"

`gcloud app deloy` errors with "Your application does not satisfy all of the requirements for a runtime of type [php72]"

my app.yaml:

runtime: php72env: flexentrypoint: serve web/index.phpruntime_config: document_root: web front_controller_file: web/index.phpenv_variables: DB_DATABASE: xxx DB_USERNAME: xxx DB_PASSWORD: "xxx" DB_SOCKET: "/cloudsql/projectname:region:instancename"beta_settings: cloud_sql_instances: "projectname:region:instancename"handlers:- url: /sites/default/files
static_dir: /sites/default/files
- url: /(.+\.(gif|png|jpg))$ static_files: \1 upload: .+\.(gif|png|jpg)$

for composer i ran: 

composer require "ext-gd:*" --ignore-platform-reqs

my php.ini

output_buffering = "1"extension=gd.soextension=curl.soextension=imagick.so

[Jad El Houssami]

Hello Eli,

For composer, are you including: composer require "ext-gd:*" --ignore-platform-reqs in your application’s composer.json? Otherwise it may only be installed locally and won’t be picked up by the App Engine Flexible environment.

Your title seems to suggest that you have already included it with composer.json, so I would additionally suggest using the app.yaml reference page to double check for any typos. For example in your app.yaml: changing “runtime: php72” to “runtime: php” instead.

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[Eli Taylor]

I was requiring in my application and via the php.ini. Eitherway, i was finally able to get `composer install --ignore-platform-reqs`  to work. (ie. only with the --ignore-platform-reqs flag)