Image rotation is not supported by your web host.

When you build your own Web Server you are bound to run into little issues.

In my case, they always seem to be WordPress related…

Previously I had an issue connecting JetPack to WordPress.com, you can read about that here.

Recently I attached a Featured Image on a blog post and went to rotate the image. Something I have probably never done before. But I was presented with this error “Image rotation is not supported by your web host.” and thought. Perfect!

Image resizing workes fine. But I can’t edit the images. Turns out that I forgot to install PHP GD.

You can do this by installing GD for your Specific version of PHP.

$ apt-get install php7.0-gd

Next, reload your PHP FPM if you are running it, then your web server.

$ service php7.0-fpm restart
$ service apache2 reload

Test by rotating or cropping an image. Everything should be working as expected.

Hopefully, this helped you out a bit, I found the error from WordPress to be of little help.

What kind of self-hosting problems have you come across? Were they WordPress related like mine?