[Typo3] Solved: ImageMagick on virtual host, TYPO3 couldn't find

[Peter Russ]

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ImageMagick Installation on Virtual Host Account with SSH Access

Situation: 	Customer got virtual host with ssh access
TYPO3 was installed
no ImageMagick
after installing static linked package 
imagemagick-4.2.9_i386-static-1.tar.gz
TYPO3 complained that no valid version could be found
Problem: 	It turned out that due to the virtual setup and the setup of 
the Apache the environment got lost and the ImageMagick.so.9 couldn't be 
found during the exec()

Challenge: 	

    1. convince the provider to change the setup
       Nice try!
    2. convince the provider to install ImageMagick globally
       No support for third party products
    3. fix it in TYPO3 to pass environment
       possible solution, just no time to do so

Solution: 	Fixed it on script level

    1. move required executable to *.bin, i.e.

mv convert convert.bin
mv combine combine.bin
mv identify identify.bin

    2. create script

pico convert

    3. content of the script file

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
export PATH; PATH="/home/usr203227042/ImageMagick-4.2.9/bin:$PATH"
export MAGICK_HOME="/home/usr203227042/ImageMagick-4.2.9"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/usr203227042/ImageMagick-4.2.9/lib"
/home/usr203227042/ImageMagick-4.2.9/bin/convert.bin $*

    4. make script executable

chmod 755 convert

    5. repeat steps 2.-4. for combine and identify and don't forget to 
change convert.bin to the appropriate value

Solved: 	Now TYPO3 can find ImageMagick and IT ROCKS

Regs. Peter.


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