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10-04-2006, 03:58 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Best way to address hosting clients's ImageMagick needs?
Hello:
Several users have requested ImageMagick for various image manipulation scipts. We primarily suggest a VPS or dedicated solution, but is there any way to offer the ImageMagick service on virtual accounts without crippling the entire server and other clients' sites?
Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Chad
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10-04-2006, 04:00 PM #2Disabled
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A proper configuration of ImageMagik will do no harm to your server... IMO, I don't see why some hosts don't support ImageMagik.
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10-04-2006, 04:07 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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A dedicated server for ImageMagick? any host should be able to offer it to their customers without any problem, is almost basic.
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10-04-2006, 04:09 PM #4Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks for the reply. Ok. Anybody have the 'proper' ImageMagick configuration details? :-) We've had some resource issues when heavier programs (like Gallery2) have accessed it with a bunch of large files. Maybe it was unrelated and we're associating it with the wrong script.
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Chad
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10-04-2006, 04:11 PM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally Posted by Jedito
Thanks
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10-04-2006, 04:17 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Yes, or probably a bad configuration of ImageMagick, usually you shouldn't have any problem.
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10-04-2006, 04:21 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks Jedito,
We'll give it another shot. We just had a bad experience a while back, and have avoided it for the time being. We'll dig into it.
Does anyone have pointers on setting it up so we don't make the same mistake twice?
Chad
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10-04-2006, 04:24 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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just download and untar it
./configure
make
make install
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10-04-2006, 04:35 PM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally Posted by Jedito
Haha..cool. Thanks everybody for the comments. We'll give it another shot.
I have been in hosting since 1998, but I've dealt primarily with dedicated servers. Working with AMK, everyonce in a while you run into something on virtual hosting that throws you a loop and affects a wide variety of people. Always more edges to smooth out.
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10-04-2006, 04:54 PM #10Web Hosting Guru
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If you have Cpanel, I think there is a script,
/scripts/installimagemagick
or something like that anyway.... I don't remember the exact name of it.
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10-04-2006, 04:59 PM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks. We currently don't have any machines using cPanel. We are running DirectAdmin, Plesk, and H-sphere.
Originally Posted by stephanhughson
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10-04-2006, 05:08 PM #12Web Hosting Guru
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Ah ok cool. I've got some installation instructions saved if you need them. I can PM them on request.
Depending on your operating system, it might even be available as a package that you can just install with one line.
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10-04-2006, 05:18 PM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks, any help is appreciated. We're currently running CentOS 4 on our virtual hosting machines, I believe.
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10-04-2006, 05:30 PM #14Web Hosting Guru
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I private messaged, but it might be useful to others, so here it is repeated:
For CentOS 4, you can install it using yum.
The command is:
yum install imagemagick
To check Imagemagick is installed, you can type convert -version
and that's it.
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10-04-2006, 05:34 PM #15Junior Guru Wannabe
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Many thanks, that's simple enough...haha. Let me know if I can help you in the future.
Chad