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Mediawiki and ImageMagick

7 March 2006 · 2 Comments

Yeeouch, tried to install ImageMagick on one of the Mediawiki wikis this afternoon and it didn't want to play. There are several attempts at instructions from different people, each with some slight variation and none worked for us. If I, or one of my colleagues, gets it working I'll post here how we did it. If someone is reading this and has done it please let me know how.

My environment is IIS 6, MediaWiki 5.6, PHP5, MySQL 5, ImageMagick 6.2.6.3.

Update: You don't need ImageMagick, just enable GD – see comments below.

Technocrati tags: Mediawiki, ImageMagick

Categories: Wiki

2 responses so far ↓

  • Brian // 4 April 2006 at 8:03 pm | Reply

    Do you still have to install ImageMagick if you enable the GD library in php?

  • Richard Kernick // 5 April 2006 at 12:05 am | Reply

    Brian, an excellent point and well made ;-) I remember seeing something about that but was so focused on ImageMagick that I skipped over it. Simply enabled GD in php, restarted the web server and BANG – it worked. Fantastic! Thanks for the comment.

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