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Hello,

I have successfully downloaded MediaWiki and installed it on my website. It works really good and I would like to thank you for making this wonderfull job.

However, I still have a problem: when uploading images, it doesn't make thumbnails. I have read that it was because ImageMagick was not installed on my Wiki. So I have downloaded it and tried to install it. But I couldn't find how to do it, in which folder on the website I had to put the downloaded files, what I have to configure...

That's really annoing because I can't put any images on my Wiki...

Can you help me please?

Thank you in advance!

This post was posted by 178.197.238.108, but signed as Swisstram.

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.

Thank you for your answer.

When you say "the PHP setting open_basedir be set accordingly so that PHP has access to this folder", how can I do it? Is it something to configure with my host (which is OVH)?

Yes. It is a PHP setting, which can be made in php.ini. I don't have a guide on how to install ImageMagick currently, but Manual:Installing_third-party_tools#ImageMagick at least explains, which options you have to set in MediaWiki.