[Typo3] ImageMagick - further thought

[Robert A Heller]

I am not sure if you are running your live site on a hosted box, or on 
your own box.  Nevertheless, you will probably need a fully qualified 
(absolute) path.

To be sure, i'd use _/usr/bin_, if that is where your imagic binaries exist.

It sounds like you are using a hosted service somewhere.  If that is the 
case, then you are not likely to be able to place the IM files in 
/usr/bin and will have to place them into your own folder tree.  You 
probably won't know the absolute pathname of your htdocs/mysite folder.  
If you have shell access to the host you can simply type in 'pwd' at the 
shell prompt ($) and it will tell you your absolute path (could be 
something like /home/htdocs/mysite or /var/htdocs/mysite or /usr/local/).

All that said, clearly you have been able to install typo3 and make it 
work.  I presume this is all installed in your home directory 
(htdocs/mysite).

Check your PHP configuration as it supplies a lot of information.  You 
can do this in your install tool (login to 
live.domain.com/typo3/install) and select option 7 (phpinfo()).

Check the SERVER: PATH_TRANSLA: environment variable in the getenv() 
section.  This should tell you what your absolute pathname is to 
../htdocs/mysite.  You can probably also see in the _ENV and _SERVER 
sections things like SCRIPT_FILENAME and DOCUMENT_ROOT which can provide 
the same information.

In your location (../htdocs/mysite) I'd create a folder labelled IM and 
then I'd put all the binaries into that directory.  For example 
../htdocs/mysite/IM/bin and then set the path information in the install 
tool to /root/directory/path/from/SCRIPT_FILENAME/htdocs/mysite/IM/bin 
and it should all work.


Mike Jones wrote:

>Hello again
>
>Thank you for your response Robert - I am encouraged to think that later
>versions work.
>
>What about paths?
>
>On Windows I have the localconf.php file with an absolute path to the
>ImageMagick binaries - c:\ImageMagick\
>
>Since my live server is a Unix box - do I still need an absolute path?
>
>If it has to be usr/bin or similar - I have no access to this and my hosting
>providers will not install for me.
>
>I have access to my own root folder called htdocs and my website is in a
>subfolder of this - htdocs/mysite/
>
>Can the ImageMagick path be a relative path? Where can I place the
>ImageMagick files?
>
>If so how do I specify this on Unix?
>
>Thanks for all help.
>
>Mike Jones
>
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