Unclear about imagick

  • Resolved DownunderDabbler

    (@downunderdabbler)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    This is a great plugin which I have just activated and am learning to drive. One problem: “Your server is not configured to run Imagick.”

    I am using dreamhost.com and the information on their site says:

    ImageMagick on Dreamhost:

    We have ImageMagick installed on all our servers already! It’s a great suite of little unix programs for letting you manipulate images in an automated fashion directly on our server! You’ll need a shell account with us to use ImageMagick.
    The path to ImageMagick is /usr/bin (the program usually used is actually called “convert”, not imagemagick).
    If you’re using ImageMagick in php you have to run it as a php-cgi. All new domains at DreamHost are forced to run PHP as CGI as we no longer support mod_php, so this is no longer a concern.

    I don’t know enough to know how to enable imagick using the above information.

    Are you able to help with this?

    With thanks,
    Hakim

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/document-gallery/

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  • Plugin Author Dan Rossiter

    (@danrossiter)

    Hi Hakim,

    Based on that paragraph, Document Gallery will not be able to use ImageMagick.

    The issue is that there are two things in play here. First, there is the actual binary program that does the conversion (ImageMagick). You server is OK on that front. The second part, which it sounds like you’re lacking, is the Imagick native PHP extension which WordPress requires in order to interact with the ImageMagick binary.

    Since Document Gallery uses native WP ImageMagick support, which in turn relies on the native PHP extension, just having the binary on your server won’t be enough I’m afraid.

    I would recommend contacting Dreamhost and asking whether it is possible to have access to the Imagick native PHP extension. It’s a long shot, but that is what you would need in order for Document Gallery to use IM when generating thumbnails.

    -Dan

    Thread Starter DownunderDabbler

    (@downunderdabbler)

    Thanks Dan. I will contact Dreamhost as you suggest.

    Hakim

    Plugin Author Dan Rossiter

    (@danrossiter)

    Good luck, Hakim!

    I would be curious to know what response you get. Dreamhost is quite a popular host so it’s possible that if they won’t support Imagick then DG may implement a fallback to directly using the ImageMagick binaries when the native extension is not available. It’s a lot more messy to do this, but possible.

    -Dan

    Yes, they support imagick php extension. Instructions here: https://wiki.dreamhost.com/ImageMagick_and_imagick_php_module_on_shared_hosting

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