By jsonke on

Dear all,

This is my first website I try to create with drupal and I run into a problem.
I have been searching the internet all afternoon for my problem.
Unfortunately I could not find a solution so I hope you can help me out.

I have installed the image gallery.
Now I want to activate the image toolkit in combination with ImageMagick and Drupal asks me for a path to the "convert" binary.
The proposed path is: /usr/bin/convert
I have been looking all over my system for this path, but I couldn't find it.
How can I find this path, where should I look? Is there something I need to install?

I hope you can help me out with this.

Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Jurriaan

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

lvthunder’s picture

lvthunder commented

Do you have Imagemagick installed on your server? The Imagemagick binaries are separate from Drupal.

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jsonke commented

Yes,
I have ImageMagick installed on my server.

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abloodworth commented

Do you happen to be running Windows? I just ran around in circles trying to chase this down. I have a convert.exe file in C:\WINDOWS\system32, but apparently this is a Windows utility for converting file systems and you can have a conflict between the two. http://www.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-users/2002-March/001612.html, http://marc.info/?l=imagemagick&m=96216760430150&w=2. If you know where the ImageMagick convert.exe is on your system, do you know where it is? If so, that would be the path to use. E.g. C:\Magick\convert

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abloodworth commented

More info for windows users about testing from the command line after installing the proper ImageMagick convert.exe (I got the full ImageMagick distribution from http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php): http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t19149.html

However no matter what I make the path, I can't get Drupal to find convert.exe. I've tried paths from the C:\ directory, but am guessing that isn't working because it's above the "root" as Drupal or the web server sees it. However, I even tried putting convert.exe in /files/ and entered /files/, /files/convert, and /files/convert.exe, but still get error messages saying, "The specified ImageMagic path /files/convert does not exist." PHP is not in safe mode, and I have no value in openbasedir (see http://drupal.org/node/131305). Does anyone have any idea why this wouldn't be working, or what my path should be?

Incidentally, I know this isn't the problem because I checked my php_info, but haven't been able to modify any PHP Admin Values as in an .htaccess file, as I've seen many posts (see http://drupal.org/node/131305, http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:FAQ#Does_G2_work_with_Safe_Mode_PHP.3F). E.g.:

php_admin_value open_basedir none
php_admin_flag safe_mode off

I get a 500 server error when I put anything like that in any .htaccess file (whether Drupal or Gallery2).

The PHP website seems to say you can't modify php_admin_value or php_admin_flag in an .htaccess file: http://us2.php.net/configuration.changes. Is there a way to modify your httpd.conf file so you *can* actually do this?

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Myoos commented

this way solved my problem .. and I found it here
C:\Windows\System32\convert.exe
thank u all so much for your help
best of luck =)

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

If using PHP/Drupal on a Windows system, with ImageMagick in for example C:\ImageMagick, then don't forget to add your web user to the windows user rights... Right-click on ImageMagick folder > tab security > add.... In my case for example IUSR_test, then set read/execute rights for all files and folders below imagemagick.

Then just enter c:\imagemagick\convert.exe in drupal and it works.