ImageMagick path missing

Thursday 10 June 2010 12:29:16 pm

Hi there,

here's the problem:

Issues

Through the shell I downloaded the latest ImageMagick from the source (after having succesfully installed the latest build of Ghostscript), unpacked it, moved to the newly created ImageMagick directory, configured it, compiled it and finally installed in the root directory of my aruba server where this eZproject site is about to be launched.

I then executed the shell command "which convert" which returned convert lives in the usr/local/bin directory.

I then entered the path as requested in the ez page /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin but without any success since the finetune is not happy about it!

I also uploaded an image.ini.append.php file in the override directory where I gave the /usr/local/bin path but nothing has changed.

What should I do?

Do I need to create a symbolic link?

Please I really look forward to any workable suggestion!!

Many, many thanks in advance!

loredanaebook.it

Tuesday 15 June 2010 12:50:36 pm

I guess it might be out of eZ concerns... since this topic has been faced so many other times in the forum (and it is mostly ImageMagick related) but I just must have missed something and it starts driving me crazy.. so if anybody could give me a hint I'd really appreciate!

Among all my attempts here is the most noteworthy:

If I run "which convert" (..or "convert --version" ) from the shell it works fine and it shows me where the convert is located (..or the ImageMagick version),
while if I launch a php file uploaded inside the eZ project website - hosted by the server - with the command <?php echo system("which convert" ); ?> it doesn't return anything.
Although if I give the full path <?php echo system("which /usr/local/bin/convert" ); ?> it does return the requested output.
...
How to make ImageMagick as the default image system?

loredanaebook.it

Wednesday 16 June 2010 4:16:45 am

Thanks for your reply!

My image.ini.append.php simply shows:

[ImageMagick]

IsEnabled=false

I think I followed all the required steps during the eZ installation wizard..

During finetune check, I first installed Gostscript in the server root directory. And no matter how I test it - from php commands or from the shell (with "which gs" ) - it just appears fine, while I can't say the same for convert, mogrify or any other which I just can find if I test from the shell.

While I was configuring the image system, in the wizard screen I entered the path in the field as requested but none of my attempt was accepted so I edited the .ini.append file manually but the setting changed automatically after the installation was completed as outlined above.

What else can I try?

loredanaebook.it

Wednesday 16 June 2010 6:29:56 am

Thanks again!

..What's blocking me here?! Well...it's a long, sore story..!

I did something which literally messed up the whole site configuration and so I have to restart from scratch reinstalling eZ again!

I'll get back to you shortly - once this is fixed - and let you know!

...

One more thing? It might that depends on open_basedir enabled, by any chance? It also happens that most of the time the web server doesn't allow me the access to /bin directories...
In order to disable that I just need to set the safe_mode to 0 and open_basedir to none in the php.ini file, right?!

loredanaebook.it

Sunday 20 June 2010 7:38:06 am

I took away the .htaccess for a while (which seems to be the reason blocking the access to .php files) and was able to run the testing page which again got trouble locating "convert".

- open_basedir restrictions has been unset;

- ExecutablePath has been set to /usr/local/bin in the image.ini.append.php

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Do I need to install IMagic package?

..is there a way I can test convert functionality from within eZ back or front-end to check imageMagick's working or not?

loredanaebook.it