Thread:Project:Support desk/How to install ImageMagick on a MediaWiki?/reply

Hi!

Think of ImageMagick as a program like Apache or PHP. ImageMagick can be installed in a folder you like; only must later the PHP setting open_basedir be set accordingly so that PHP has access to this folder. It can be installed in different ways depending on the operating system on your server. Under Linux, there often is some kind of package management, which allows to install packages. Alternatively you can also install ImageMagick by downloading and extracting the source code and then running the installation commands (like configure or make) on the shell. On Windows I think it comes with an installer so that you can install it by running the installer package.