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This function’s ability to use a URL instead of a local file is dependent on the allow_url_fopen setting in your php.ini. On apache this can be found at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. Once you set this to true and restart apache the imagecreatefrompng() should no longer return a 500 error.