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Morning everyone, I'm currently configuring a wiki for a project, everything seems to be working fine and mediawiki is great.

Only missing point that I'm facing is the image thumb-nailing not working =/

When I upload a file, I always get this error message in thumb section:

Error creating thumbnail: '"/convert"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Error code: 1

The setup:

• Windows Server 2008 R2
• XAMPP 1.8.3
• MediaWiki 1.23.5
• PHP 5.5.15 (apache2handler)
• MySQL5.6.20

I've installed ImageMagick and it's working as environment variable. I used this release: ImageMagick-6.8.9-8-Q16-x64-dll.exe which installs everything (or not maybe) needed for windows running. The install dir is placed under ../extensions/ of MediaWiki just to be on the safe that htdocs can have access to convert command. But still i got the error.

[MediaWiki configuration] Under LocalSettings.php:

$wgUseImageMagick = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = '$IP/extensions/ImageMagick/convert.exe';

[PHP configuration]

php_imagick.dll must be added into php.ini? I can't find this dll extension.. on the imagick folder.

Anyway, It would be awesome if I could get this working, even if I got to install other extensions to render thumbs... The option of disabling thumbnails works as plan b

Many thanks in advance

Wbr, Sam

It's strange, it's like it doesn't recognize the setting Manual:$wgImageMagickConvertCommand and it's using the default (because it doesn't say "convert.exe" in the error message).

Check that you haven't mispelled the variable name and that you're editing the correct LocalSettings.php

PHP only escapes variables within double quotes, not single ones. Try replacing:

$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = '$IP/extensions/ImageMagick/convert.exe';

with:

$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "$IP/extensions/ImageMagick/convert.exe";

Hello,

I've replaced the quotes with double quotes...and the results are the same. Is there any workaround for this?

Many thanks in advance,

Wbr, Sam

Does "convert.exe" exist in the "ImageMagick" folder?

You say the "results" are the same, but what about the error message?