[Typo3] ImageMagick - further thought

[Robert A Heller]

if you want to give me the location and a login, i will take a look at 
your installation for you and try to fix it.  it will probably be 
quicker than trying to answer your questions via email.  once i have 
fixed it i can send you the details of what i did (and to the list).

regards

Mike Jones wrote:

>Thank you Robert for your detailed reply
>
>So, I set up my subfolders in mysite
>
>/htdocs/mysite/IM/bin/
>
>I copied into the bin folder the contents of the IM 4.2.9 static binaries as
>per Christopher's post - thanks Christopher -
>
>he said:
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>>If you decide to use 4.2.9, check out sunsite.dk for a static binary:
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>>http://typo3.sunsite.dk/software/linux/
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>I found the full path from phpinfo - using the information in the
>SCRIPT_FILENAME and DOCUMENT_ROOT variables and I entered this in the
>[im_path] field in the All Configuration form in the install tool. I
>committed that by confirming that it should write to localconf.php.
>
>And still I get the same message on the Basic Configuration page :
>
>It seems that there is no adequate ImageMagick installation available at the
>checked locations
>
>- it then lists the locations it has checked and it includes the path that I
>have specified - and, guess what? ImageMagick does not work.
>
>(An aside question - should the files in the bin folder be convert.bin,
>combine.bin and identify.bin or should they be convert.exe, combine.exe or
>identify.exe? )
>
>Is there a setting on the server that needs to in place for it to work? - if
>I knew what then I could as my hosting company to look into it for me
>
>Any further thoughts would be great.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Mike Jones
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert A Heller" <rah at rheller.net>
>To: "TYPO3 English" <typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de>
>Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [Typo3] ImageMagick - further thought
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>>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
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>exist.
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>>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:
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>>>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
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>>>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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