How to Install and Enable Imagick for PHP 7 on Ubuntu 16.04
Imagick is a PHP extension that allows you to manipulate images. Some libraries or packages require that Imagick be installed on your server. However, because Imagick is optional, it’s not installed with PHP by default. Here’s how to install and enable Imagick on your Ubuntu server.
Installation
First thing, download and install Imagick. In Terminal, run the following commands. This will install Imagick for PHP 7:
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install php-imagick Verify that Imagick is now installed. This command should output the word imagick if it was installed successfully:
imagick.so
Find out the directory where your PHP extensions are installed. This command should output the path to that directory (example: /usr/lib/php/20170718 , your path may be different):
Edit php.ini
Now we need to edit the php.ini configuration file. To find out where this file is located, we need to look at the current php configuration. To do that, create a php info file that you can access from your browser. You may call it info.php :
Load that file in your browser and look for the Loaded Configuration File setting. It should have the path to the php.ini file we need to edit (the path to your php.ini file may be different than what’s shown in this example): Open that php.ini file:
$ sudo pico /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini Restart
If you’re doing this in your local development environment, restart your computer or virtual machine. If you’re doing this on an actual server, restart it. You may want to try restarting your web server only (apache, nginx, etc), but this may not work. It’s more effective to just do a restart on the machine so that all the changes take effect. After restarting, verify that Imagick is available by loading your info.php file in your browser again, and this time you should see in it many references to the Imagick extension.
Installing/Configuring
Steps to Install ImageMagick on UwAmp for Windows:
as of March 31, 2016
Detailed guide for newbies like me.
My PHP version is: 5.6.18, and Thread Safety is Yes from
Step #1, so I downloaded:
5.6 Thread Safe (TS) x86
I got: php_imagick-3.4.1-5.6-ts-vc11-x86.zip
5. Unzip and copy «php_imagick.dll» to the php extension folder:
In my case:
php_imagick.dll —> C:\UwAmp\bin\php\php-5.6.18\ext
Note: this ZIP also contains dlls which other guides says
to extract to the extension folder of apache.
NO NEED TO DO IT. Step #3 has taken care of it.
6. Edit «php.ini» and add at the very end (could be
anywhere I suppose):
For super newbies: click the edit button in the UwAmp UI,
«php_uwamp.ini» will open and edit it. It will be copied to
the correct php.ini when UwAmp is restarted. I had
trouble at first since there are several php*.ini scattered
all over.
8. Check PHPInfo
scroll to section (or find): imagick
number of supported formats: 234
If there is no «imagick» section or «supported format» is 0,
something went wrong.
Steps to Install ImageMagick on UwAmp for Windows:
as of March 31, 2016
Detailed guide for newbies like me.
Took a long time to get it to work.
I initially followed:
http://php .net/manual/en/imagick.installation.php
but after installation, PHPInfo under imagick shows
number of supported formats = 0
So I followed these steps, clobbered from various sources
to get it to work.
1. Open PHPInfo and check:
Architecture = x86 or x64
Thread Safety = yes or no
2. Download ImageMagick from:
In my case I downloaded: ImageMagick-6.9.3-7-vc11-x86.zip
because the Architecture under PHPInfo is x86
as for vc11 or vc14
search google for «visual c++ 11 runtime» or
«visual c++ 14 runtime» and install it
3. Unzip and copy all dlls from the bin subfolder to the
Apache bin directory. It’s a bunch of CORE_RL_*.dll
and IM_MOD_RL_*.dll plus a few other dlls.
In my case, I installed UwAmp in C:\UwAmp, so:
(from zip) bin/*.dll —> C:\UwAmp\bin\apache\bin
Just a note that the ‘Ian Co’ instructions for ‘Installing ImageMagick on UwAmp for Windows’ also works for XAMPP. Just change the paths accordingly.
For windows users, I found this, hope this help
it is important to install correct version of Visual C++ redistributable Package.
for ImageMagick-6.5.8-10-Q16-windows-dll.exe —
Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package
To install on Ubuntu or Debian, using the package manager, use:
sudo apt-get install php5-imagick
sudo service apache2 reload
After 2 hours of looking for help from different documentation & sites, I found out none of them are complete solution. So, I summary my instruction here:
1) yum install php-devel
2) cd /usr
3) wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear
4) php go-pear
5) See the following line in /etc/php.ini [include_path=».:/usr/PEAR»]6) pecl install imagick
7) Add the following line in /etc/php.ini [extension=imagick.so]8) service httpd restart
Hopefully, I can save other engineer effort & time. Good luck!
install php via «Homebrew», then:
$ brew install php53-imagick
and then:
reload php-fpm (or restart apache)
For installing imagick in Windows do the following:
1. Download and install the ImageMagick API from http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows. (In my case, I installed the lastest version: ImageMagick-6.9.2-10-Q16-x64-dll.)
2. Go to http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick and choose the version of imagick that best suits your PHP version. (Because I had PHP 5.4 I downloaded «php_imagick-3.3.0-5.4-ts-vc9-x86.zip».
3. Extract the contents of the zip file and go to the directory where the files were extracted.
4. Copy the php_imagick.dll in yout PHP’s ext folder.
5. All the other dll that you extracted from the zip file can go into apache’s bin directory. In my case, I have apache 2.2 and the bin directory is at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin.
6. Activate the extention in your PHP.ini file by adding the following:
[Imagick]extension: «C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\ext\php_imagick.dll»
7. Restart apache
8. Sit back and relax
I too had the error «Please provide a path to MagickWand-config or Wand-config program.» when installing on linux (in this case CentOS aka Red Hat).
The simple solution was to ensure «ImageMagick-devel» and NOT «ImageMagick» package was in place. Next comes the standard command:
pecl install imagick
Lastly, and as per the otherwise flawless instructions, edit php.ini to include:
extension=imagick.so
Simple way to install ImageMagick on your linux machine(RHEL5,Cent OS 5)
#yum install ImageMagick*
#pecl install imagick sometimes you may have ask to install gcc compiler. if so execute #yum install gcc*
added the extension on php.ini
#echo «extension=imagick.so» >> /etc/php.ini
#service httpd restart
If you want to install ImageMagick on Nginx for Windows, in addition to setting php_imagick.dll extension, you should set an environment variable like so:
— First download ImageMagick package (if you haven’t already) *
https://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/deps/
— Extract it to any folder for example «C:\ImageMagick-xxx\»
— Edit the «PATH» variable and add a new entry with value «C:\ImageMagick-xxx\bin»
* Note: The ImageMagick package you download should match your php Compiler (i.e Visual C++ 2017), Architecture (i.e x86 or x64) and «Thread Safety». All of these can be viewed from php_info()
Recently I had to install ImageMagick on FreeBSD. The following commands achieved this without a problem.
cd /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick-nox11/
make install clean
service apache22 stop
cd /usr/ports/graphics/pecl-imagick/
make install clean
service apache22 start
NOTE: For some of the package dependencies you will be prompted to select optional add-ons. I left all the config options untouched except for those which provided integration with the X11 system. Those once I disabled.
imagick 2.2.2 might have a problem loading in PHP 5.3 by giving following error at start-up:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘. /imagick.so’ — . /imagick.so: undefined symbol: XStringListToTextProperty in Unknown on line 0
in this case, revert to PHP 5.2.8 and imagick-2.2.0 will work just fine.
Windows installation is a bit more tricky since «pecl install imagick» does NOT work properly.
Here’s how I installed it:
1/ Install ImageMagick software http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows
2/ Download pecl-5.2-dev.zip (choose the version relevant to your PHP) from http://snaps.php.net/
3/ Copy php_imagick.dll from the archive you’ve downloaded to your PHP extention folder.
4/ Add the following line to php.ini (in the exntentions section):
extension=php_imagick.dll
5/ Restart your server
6/ Try the example script to see all went well
I have php 5.3.1 running on apache on windows (with xampp)
to get this working i installed the appropriate image magick from here http://imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows
Then i needed the php_imagick.dll for vc6 (because im on apache not iis).
Addendum to Ian Co’s «Steps to Install ImageMagick for Windows» specifically for Uniform Server Z and how to fix if you get an empty list of ImageMagick supported formats):
Thanks to Ian Co’s comments above for setting me in the right direction.
My Uniform Server is installed to B:\UniServerZ, adjust the following steps to your specific installation.
If you’ve been messing around with a gazillion solutions like me, first delete any previous copies of imagemagick dll-s (i.e. IM_MOD_RL. dll-s, CORE_RL. dll-s) from your sysem, i.e. I had copied them to C:\Windows\system, B:\UniServerZ\core\php56, B:\UniServerZ\core\php56\extensions.
Extract contents of bin folder to B:\UniServerZ\core\php56 (or whichever vresion of php you are using)
2. Download the appropriate imagick package from http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick/3.1.2/windows
For me the right one was php_imagick-3.1.2-5.6-ts-vc11-x86.zip , check phpinfo whether you need the thread-safe version or not and which architecture.
Extract php_imagemagick.dll ONLY (and not the other dll-s) to B:\UniServerZ\core\php56\extensions
Previously I had tried ImageMagick-6.9.3-7-vc11-x86.zip and ImageMagick-6.9.3-7-vc14-x86.zip but the dll-s here did not work, perhaps because Uniform Server was compiled using VC9? and these were compiled with later versions!? What a mess.
I had also tried creating a C:\ImageMagick and adding it to PATH user-level and to MAGICK_HOME system-level environment variables, but this proved unnecessary (although it also works).