Comments on: Installing Imagick under Apache on Windows

By: Jeremy Cook

Jeremy Cook — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:04:56 +0000

Hi Luis,

Thanks for the update. I wasn’t aware of that issue as I’m running ImageMagick 6.6.3-4. It’s good to know about that problem before I try to upgrade though. Looks like the whole depressing cycle of which build to use is starting all over again!

Thanks again,

Jeremy.

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:22:00 +0000

Hello!

sorry… I made an error. It is of course ImageMagic >6.6.4 that will not work.

bye

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:20:28 +0000

Hello Jeremy!

Thanks for your tutorial. I just wanted to advise something to anyone during the install of ImageMagic > 6.4.X

It doesn’t work. For anyone wanting to follow your guide, please take notice of Chris comment at http://valokuva.org/?p=161#comment-20707.

Install a former version of Imagemagick will only work.

In my case Apache completly crashed and restarted. With ImageMagick 6.3.9 everything went fine.

Thanks!

Luis

By: Jeremy Cook

Jeremy Cook — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:29:55 +0000

Hi Dan,

I’m not totally sure what could be causing your issues as WordPress seems to have mangled most of your code examples. I did run into a few issues when I was testing out Imagick that led to errors like the one you mention (as far as I can remember). There were two problems from what I remember. The first was that some of the Imagick methods I was using (which were from a tutorial) were deprecated. This normally wouldn’t be a problem but as this is my development box I have error reporting turned up to E_ALL and display errors turned on. As a result PHP was dumping error message to the output which should have been an image file. This was making the image files invalid, causing the browser to issue cryptic errors. Does that sound like it might be your problem? I’d try doing some very simple operations on an image as a test to make sure it seems to be working. If that goes fine I’d have a look at the methods you’re trying to call to make sure none of them are deprecated.

One final thing. Sorry to ask this but you do have all of the correct pieces in the puzzle (Apache, PHP and Imagick compiled with VC9)? Just making sure!

Good luck.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:04:44 +0000

First, thank you for the write up. I have been trying to get this to work for awhile, and I feel like I am closer than ever. Before I was able to get the whole thing working, but it was with an older version, and it didn’t have a method that I needed. Anyway, did you run into any issues where it wouldn’t process commands and just return

Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.

Here is the code snippet that I am trying to run

It just acts like the page doesn’t exist, but if I do

getCopyright();
echo $cp
?>

I get

and yes the file exists. Anyway, any clues I have tried different versions of Image Magick (all Q16 windows.dll)

Any ideas?

By: Jeremy Cook

Jeremy Cook — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:26:26 +0000

Great, glad it all worked out.

By: jaycee

jaycee — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:59:18 +0000

Thanks for the write-up. I’ve just spent a few hours going through the same mess and got it all going from your instructions.