image.imagemagick.inc doesn't work with Windows/Apache/PHP

Hi, thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately I can't enable the debugging. Once I give it the correct path for the convert.exe file, it just beeps and hangs. This behaviour is then repeated every time I click on the Image toolkit menu. I can't get it to work again unless I delete the .inc file from the includes directory.

Now it is possible I'm doing something wrong, being a newbie to Drupal!

I've had exactly the same results on two different PCs. The precise steps I take are:

1. Download and install Drupal 5.7 (fresh install with no contributed modules).
2. Download and install current ImageMagick using the defaults. The installation directory is: C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.3.8-Q8. Check that it's running by executing convert from the command line (I've found that sometimes the Windows path variable is not updated correctly until you reboot).
3. Download images module (5.x-1.6). Copy image.imagemagick.inc to the includes directory.
4. Click on the Image toolkit menu. The ImageMagick option is listed, which I select. For path to the binary I enter "c:\program files\ImageMagick-6.3.8-q8\convert.exe". Click on Save configuration. But the computer gives an error beep and the page hangs, with no further messages or information. If I jump to another menu, I get a message that ImageMagick can't find the convert.exe file and that the path must be set from Image toolkit menu. Clicking on the Image toolkit menu just results in a repeat of the error beep and the page hanging. Nothing in the watchdog log. Nothing in the Apache log.

I also wrote a wee php file to test convert.exe using exec:

exec("convert test.jpg test.png");

This ran perfectly, happily converting the test.jpg in my web root to .png format.

What have I done wrong here?

Further information: I'm running Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2.5, and MySQL 5.0.45.
The ImageMagick include version is:
// $Id: image.imagemagick.inc,v 1.3.2.14 2007/10/10 03:47:12 drewish Exp $

Thanks and regards,
Peter.

Hi, I have PHP logging turned on but not getting any errors in that log either. I'll download the devel module and follow your suggestion.

Cheers,
Peter.

I installed devel and set the debug variable using the execute php block. Used the variable editor to check it was set:

image_imagemagick_debugging i:1; 4 edit

Then selected ImageMagick from the Image tools menu. Same problem, nothing new in the watchdog logs, php log, or Apache log.

BUT I got this message in the Firefox log:

Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'display'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://test/modules/system/defaults.css
Line: 43

.clear-block {
display: inline-block;
}

Found some documentation about this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9458

But not sure if this is related to the problem, or just a red herring. For what it's worth, I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.11.

Cheers,
Peter.

It is a red herring. An error entry appears for every menu accessed in Drupal.

Same problem occurs when I try to access this page from different browsers and different PCs. The error beep comes from the server. I'm sure it's gonna be something really simple that I'll be kicking myself about...

Hi, sorry to bug you (so to speak), but do you have any other ideas on this? It's really easy to replicate, just need to go through the steps I've outlined. Perhaps it's due to some quirk with this combination of WAMP versions?

Cheers,
Peter.

Hi, I really appreciate your help so far with this.

Just to clarify, I don't get a "black window" at all, I just get a beep after enabling ImageMagick and the page hangs, with no errors recorded anywhere as far as I can determine.

I thought you might be able to replicate the problem quite easily by installing the versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL that I mentioned earlier on a Windows XP box, along with a fresh Drupal install. I've gone through exactly the same procedure on three completely different PCs now with exactly the same result. I'm quite new to Drupal and so I have a long learning curve once I start digging into the code. I was hoping that, being more intimate with the code, you may have an "aha" moment and know what it was!

I do have one final interesting clue. Prior to attempting to install ImageMagick, the following options appear when I click on Image toolkit:

The built-in GD2 toolkit is installed and working properly.
JPEG quality:
75%
Define the image quality for JPEG manipulations. Ranges from 0 to 100. Higher values mean better image quality but bigger files.

After attempting to remove ImageMagick (by disabling the module, deleting the .inc file and removing references to ImageMagick in the MySQL variables table), the option to set the JPEG quality no longer appears. BUT the most painful side-effect is that the Imagecache module stops working properly. It still creates directories for images, but it doesn't scale them any more, just leaves them at their original resolution. Which plays havoc with my thumbnails.

It'd be really cool if you could look into it further; I'm sure others must have had this issue. The Apache and PHP settings are at their defaults, aside from loading the PHP GD2 module in php.ini.

If you don't have time, I'll just live with GD2 until I eventually move the website to Linux. But could you please let me know how to COMPLETELY remove ImageMagick so that I can get Imagecache working again without a fresh Drupal install? Are there any other affected tables in MySQL?

Thanks heaps,
Peter.

OK, just wanted to summarise this issue after some further experimentation.

I originally found this problem with Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0.45, and ImageMagick 6.3.8-Q8 on Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Dell desktop.

This afternoon I started afresh with a clean slate and older releases of everything - and had EXACTLY the same issue with Apache 2.0.63, PHP 5.1.4, MySQL 5.0.21, and ImageMagick 5.5.7-Q8 on Windows XP Home SP2 on a Toshiba laptop.

Either I am doing something STUPID, or omitting something that is necessary to get this running, or the ImageMagick include is BROKEN!!!

These are the EXACT steps I go through:

1. Download and install Apache 2.2.6, then PHP 5.2.5, then MySQL 5.0.45.
2. Make changes to httpd.conf:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

AllowOverride All

AllowOverride All

3. Make changes to php.ini:

doc_root = C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll

4. Restart Apache and verify PHP is loaded. Load phpinfo() in Apache to check PHP is running and all extensions are loaded.
5. Create database in MySQL:

create database drupal;
use drupal;

6. Download Drupal 5.7, copy to htdocs, and run install.php with "drupal" as the database. No contributed modules installed and no configuration changes made, aside from setting the files directory and running cron as requested on the Status screen.
7. Download and install ImageMagick 6.3.8-Q8 using the defaults. The installation directory is: C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.3.8-Q8. Verify that it's working by executing convert from the command line as instructed in the ImageMagick install. Reboot for good measure.
8. Download Images module (5.x-1.6). Copy image.imagemagick.inc to the includes directory.
9. In Drupal, click on the Image toolkit menu. The ImageMagick option is listed, which I select. For path to the binary I enter "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.3.8-Q8\convert.exe". Click on Save configuration.

Pause here - are these the correct steps??? For example, am I supposed to install the Images module or just copy the image.imagemagick.inc?

If the steps above look right, could someone else PLEASE try this and see if you get the same result as below?! If this isn't enough information to go on, I don't know what is!

After I click on Save configuration, the PC beeps and the page hangs, with no further messages or information. If I click on another menu, I get a message that ImageMagick can't find the convert.exe file and that the path must be set from Image toolkit menu. Clicking on the Image toolkit menu just results in a repeat of the error beep and the page hanging. Nothing in the Drupal watchdog log (even after installing devel module and manually enabling debugging). Nothing in the Apache log. Nothing in the PHP log. Nothing in the Windows XP log.

This abortive attempt to install ImageMagick had another nasty side-effect on my development system - it completely killed Imagecache and prevented it from scaling images any more.

If nobody else can duplicate this, then I'll just go crawl into a hole for a while, then crawl out and install Linux. But really, it's a piece of cake to replicate by following the above procedure, and if it's a bug it needs to be fixed.

If I've done something wrong, I'd be very appreciative if somebody could point out the problem; maybe I've overlooked something that more seasoned users would think obvious.

Thanks!
Peter.

Hi drewish, thanks for your replies. Yes ImageMagick is in the path env variable. Are you using Windows XP with similar versions of AMP? I'm really surprised you don't have the same probs!

Regarding changing the toolkit back to GD2 before deleting the .inc file, the problem is that I can no longer get into the menu to change it back.

I will try the 5.x-2.x-dev version, but where do I download it - I can't find it on drupal.org? Also, the patch you mentioned doesn't seem to be attached to #12.

The following may or may not be a clue. Once I get the error, after a delay the following message appears in Windows event log:

Faulting application httpd.exe, version 2.2.6.0, faulting module libhttpd.dll, version 2.2.6.0, fault address 0x0001ca5a.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I get the same error in Apache 2.0.63. I can't say for sure that it's related to the problem, but the error only seems to occur after I try and install the IM include.

Thanks,
Peter.