ImageMagick access

[swhitenstall]

I have a cPanel Premium Plan account and it is advertised as having ImageMagick available.

I need access to ImageMagick from applications such as Omeka and Gallery in order to handle image resizes etc.

These applications require an ImageMagick path to be specified. I checked cPanel help and these forums for details of what the path is - but to no avail.

I ran a phpinfo() script and found no ImageMagick php module installed and a cgi script found no ImageMagick pm. Though it did find GD pm.

I sent a support request from cpanel this morning inquiring about correct paths for php/ImageMagick (no reply yet) - but I'm beginning to think ImageMagick is not present or activated on the system.

Do I need to specifically request ImageMagick to be activiated in Perl/PHP ?
Or am I missing something ?

Hope someone can help

Stephen

[WHUK-Ralf]

Originally Posted by swhitenstall

I have a cPanel Premium Plan account and it is advertised as having ImageMagick available.

I need access to ImageMagick from applications such as Omeka and Gallery in order to handle image resizes etc.

These applications require an ImageMagick path to be specified. I checked cPanel help and these forums for details of what the path is - but to no avail.

I ran a phpinfo() script and found no ImageMagick php module installed and a cgi script found no ImageMagick pm. Though it did find GD pm.

I sent a support request from cpanel this morning inquiring about correct paths for php/ImageMagick (no reply yet) - but I'm beginning to think ImageMagick is not present or activated on the system.

Do I need to specifically request ImageMagick to be activiated in Perl/PHP ?
Or am I missing something ?

Hope someone can help

Stephen

ImageMagick has been installed on the server and path for ImageMagick is /usr/bin/convert

[swhitenstall]

Thanks for the prompt reply Ralf -

Yes that is the correct path, but it has thrown up a new issue.

In Omeka - General Settings - Imagemagick Directory Path

the path no longer simply fails but fails and returns this message ...

Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect.
The script whose uid is 724 is not allowed to access /usr/bin/convert owned by uid 0 in
...
SettingsController.php on line 82

I've checked the Omeka forums and this problem occurs because Omeka uses an realpath() function to verify (I think) the full (system?) path itself. Apparently this function is essential for Imagemagick use in Omeka.

So the path is correct but the (Imagemagick) SAFE MODE Restriction seems to be preventing use by Omeka.

...

Can the MODE be amended to allow this script and so enable Omeka to function ?


(btw - there may be similar issues with Gallery3 - but this is less of an issue because the GD toolkit is available as an alternative - Omeka relies exclusively on ImageMagick)

Thanks in advance for any help with this issue