Topic: ImageMagick Problem

[chino-rider]

I am having trouble getting ImageMagick convert to work.  My web host told me the path to ImageMagick is

/usr/local/lib  so that is what I placed in album.cfg but I get the following error....

Image Magick Error: sh: =/usr/local/lib/convert: No such file or directory

It appears ImageMagick is generating this error (correct path ??) but I do not know where or what to check...  

Any help  ??

Thanks

Dick Emrich

[shr]

Take a look here ->

http://perl.cdnarmy.ca/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=album.pl_features;action=display;num=1027796188

[Mike Bobbitt]

I'd say the error is correct!  

album.pl looks for convert, which it apparently isn't finding in /usr/local/lib. Not sure what to say except try to find out where it "really" is...

[Bytes_U]

enter this setting in config...
/usr/local/bin

if that doesn't work try...
/usr/bin

My bet is on the first one
Good luck... Tom

[chino-rider]

I tried both paths but no joy on either one....  The techs at my web host service also suggested I try the /usr/local/bin   ...I'll keep trying  

Thanks

[shr]

Try this script and maybe it will help you a bit, just unpack it and run in your /cgi-bin dir

download here -> http://janpel.d2g.com/pathtest.pl

[chino-rider]

Nothing new shown when I run the script.  It shows Document Root as  /home/sites/site25/web  but no hint (to me at least !!) where CONVERT is located !!  

Thansk for the hint tho...

[chino-rider]

Thanks to all who responded to my  It is working now but not sure what the web host tech guys did...  probably moved ImageMagick to the correct directory !!!


Thanks again

[Mike Bobbitt]

Haha! Gotta love that divine intervention!

Cheers

[Raceit]

Ok.  I'm a bit lost here.  What exactly is a binary file?  Or what extension will that convert file have on it?  

On my 2K box with IIS 5.0 I download the file PerMagick-full.zip.  That installed fine and I get that rainbow graident bar.  But with that install there is no files with the name convert.  So I downloaded ImageMagick-5.4.7-4.zip.  In there I found a few files have a name of convert.  Since I'm in over myhead a bit here I just copied those files into my D:\perl\site\lib\auto\image\magick folder in a vein attempt.  Regardless of what files I put in there or my path I get this error: "Image Magick Error: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. "

I know I'm missing something obvious here.  So I'm thinking I need to uncompress something or even download the proper files.

Any thoughts?

TIA

[shr]

You can try this, uninstall and delete all your binarys that you have, install this -> http://janpel.d2g.com/Programs/ImageMagick-5.4.8-win2k.exe, use c:/ImageMagick as program dir, and reboot, then put c:/ImageMagick as dir in your album.cfg

good luck, worked great for me.   but I don't use ImageMagick at the moment cause I try to solve a few bugs with the scripting...

[Raceit]

Thanks for the program link.  

I did what you said there and installed the w2k app and that went fine.  I installed it into the c:\imagemagick.  Set that as the path in album.pl and also set that as the path for Image_Magick in the path statement.
Rebooted of course.
Now I get an error of: "Image Magick Error: Access is denied."  This I assume is a permission issue on my server.  I can change my permission on my web site, but this c:\imagemagick isn't located even on the same drive as my web site.  
I think I got stuck again...  

[Mike Bobbitt]

I'm guessing that the "convert.exe" binary needs to be made readable to your web server ("everyone" is also safe). You might want to check the permissions on your ImageMagick dir too...

[Raceit]

I think I'm getting somewhere.  The configuration screen sees the imagemagick dir without any errors.  

Now I see these error messages...

"Image Magick Error: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

I know it's in the path.  I can type convert anywhere and it will bring up the options for that file.  

I also just upgraded to 5.7, but had the same error.  So I downgraded back down to 5.6 just for now since I don't want to mess with that right now.

[shr]

hmm, anyway, are you sure you entered the ImageMagick dir with a / in album.cfg (ex. c:/ImageMagick ?? I tried this myself and locally it works great but not on the net, I got error 200 ?! well, just checking, and I also have to notice that I had some troubles when I did not use the exact path, ex. Lets say I have ImageMagick in my d:\imagemagick then I have to fill in d:/imagemagick in my album.cgf file and not d:\imagemagick or d:/ImageMagick or d:/IMAGEMAGICK, do you understand me ??