ImageMagick - two ways

Friday 04 February 2005 2:21:11 pm

Hi,
while trying to generate a new site with the wizard, I wanted to get full ImageMagick functionality.

First, I installed a IM package as described on imagemagick.org. I compiled it, and test from the shell was fine, even when accessing the shell not as root. (Test is: "convert -version") However, the wizard didn't find it, even when pointing to the directory "/usr/local/bin". What's wrong about this?

Second, I installed a precompiled binary package directly under ez root. Now the wizard found it, after pointing to the certain directory.

Can anybody tell me what went wrong with my first attempt?

Saturday 12 February 2005 1:57:16 pm

Thank you for your answer.
The permissions are 755 on all files in "/usr/local/bin", as I understand it this means that all can execute, apache included.
In the meantime I recognised that the other "local" install doesn't work either, after disabling IM in the override/image.ini I finally got function, but of course only GD.

Monday 14 February 2005 5:31:56 am

If open_basedir is in effect, Apache might not be able to test for the presence of ImageMagick in /usr/local/bin even if the permissions on the directory would allow it. You can check the value of open_basedir by putting a file in your document root with this simple php code:

<?php
// filename: phpinfo.php
// purpose: shows me the details of my PHP configuration
phpinfo();
?>

If open_basedir is not restricting where a PHP script can wander in your system, then the <b>directory</b> where ImageMagick is installed needs 'execute' permission for the script to go there.

This command tells the system to let 'Others' have execute permissions on the directory
chmod o+x /usr/local/bin

hope that helps

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