ImageMagick and Image Verification

[carson700]

Trying to get ImageMagick to work on my system so I can get the boards up and then have some people in my company debug them. Here's my system info:

WinNT (XP) - SP2
PHP Version 5.0.5
ImageMagick installed - ver 6.2.5 (used the win installed - used "convert -version" to verify the install)
vBulletin 3.5.1

I'm testing vBulletin on a laptop system with IIS installed so I can get it running the way I like before moving it to a set of dedicated servers. I was trying to get the image verification working, under Admin Control Panel -> vBulletin Options -> Image Settings -> Image Processing Library. The pics for both GD and ImageMagick are not working (broken image). ImageMagick IS installed but not GD. I've got the settings in whole Image Settings section for ImageMagick 6. Also, I tried several directories for where ImageMagick was installed but it hasn't been giving a listing of the fonts available. The result under the "ImageMagick Font" section was PHP ERROR exec().

Any suggestions for getting this running? I'd like to use ImageMagick, but I guess I can try to install GD. Thanks!

[Jake Bunce]

I don't have a solution for you. I will move this to the server forum since some one can probably help you there.

[carson700]

Looks like no one likes Windows systems? Lol.. Oh well, I was checking into GD and since the current version didn't support PHP, I DID notice that current PHP actually had GD 2+ bundled with it (well, I didn't know that!).

I just went into my php.ini and uncommented the php_gd2.dll and copied (did a system search for it) the file to the created directory for the PHP extensions (in my case C:/PHP/ext).

As for ImageMagick, still nothing, so I uninstalled it. I kept trying different directories for the binary files, but it just wouldn't load. Oh well.

[Freddie Bingham]

PHP ERROR exec()
That identifies the problem you are having with ImageMagick. Your webserver is not allowing executables to be launched. It could be because you have PHP in safe_mode or it could be a setting within IIS.

[Tore]

Also, I tried several directories for where ImageMagick was installed but it hasn't been giving a listing of the fonts available. The result under the "ImageMagick Font" section was PHP ERROR exec().

Any suggestions for getting this running? I'd like to use ImageMagick, but I guess I can try to install GD. Thanks!


If you are getting the unable to fork error, make sure the internet guest user has permission to read and execute the \Windows\System32\cmd.exe (\Winnt\System32\cmd.exe)