[Mediawiki-l] Non-functioning resizing of images using ImageMagick (Windows 2003 Server)

Sun Aug 21 18:16:30 UTC 2005

When I first set up my mediawiki (1.5beta4), I didn't have ImageMagick
installed. I then decided to add that capability, downloading and
installing the binaries for ImageMagick 5.5.7 (dynamic) and
php_imagick.dll. Note that Imagick does not work with the static
version or version 6 of ImageMagick (PHP5.0.4 complains that it cannot
find the dll).

So having successfully loaded imagick and having tested imagemagick to
check that it resizes images from the command line, I then made
changes to the LocalSettings file. However, what I find now is that
while mediawiki creates folders for resized images and creates links
to the resized images in those directories, the resized images do not
exist. Can anyone give me guidance on where to look for error messages
(I am using IIS6>0 webserver). If you have already had this problem
and solved it, then I would be even more interested in hearing from
you.

Incidentally, as part of my search, I came across a program called
MagickWand which has had a PHP dll written for it that looks as though
it will be a replacement for Imagick (which works with ImageMagick 6),
although I am not quite clear yet on how it would be implemented. I
realize that this is principally of interest to people running
mediawiki on Windows machines.

As always, any help would be much appreciated. Once I have this sorted
out, I shouldn't need to ask any more questions! Thanks!