Indemnity83

Ramblings and musings of a technology addict

Holy Shit … Now thats Service!

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I sent an email earlier this afternoon to my ISP (1&1) to ask them what it would take to get ImageMagick installed on the system for me to use in the gallery. I fully expected some answer along the lines of “We cannot install software on the system without first testing it and our IT department is busy so give up until a lot of people request it”

But just now, I got a reply (its 12am here, would make it 3am where 1&1 is based) that not only said I could do it, but they gave me some general (downright specific for those familiar with the configure -> make -> make install process of Linux) direction on what I needed to do to get it to work in my home directory.

Incredible!

So I’m now using the ImageMagick toolkit instead of GD, which hopefully will allow me to upload much larger pictures without creating broken thumbnails and resizes. Yay!

===== UPDATE ( 5 min later) =======

Well, I still get broken thumbnails and resizes, check out this gallery to see what I’m talking about. The broken ones are what I just uploaded, the working ones were an upload earlier that were scaled down before uploading. Perhaps 3000 x 2143 is just more picture than gallery can handle. Oh well there are other means. I dont really need (or want) images that big anyway, but its nice to know you can sometimes ;-)

Written by Kyle

October 25th, 2005 at 3:18 am

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  • http://www.ozgreg.com ozgreg

    A few tips about Gallery2.. Imagemagick is the only image kit you should be using, because of it’s fairly broad support for a wide range of protocols..

    I would deactivate and remove both GD and Netpbm if they are active.

    Regarding your issue, with large images, I would try both ways to see where the issue is, that is via the upload applet and also via the web browser interface and again uploading via Gallery2 in standalone rather than embedded..

    Remember 1&1 will have the file size limit (php upload file size). I also see a lack of php memory causing this kind of issue, try increasing your php memory size.

    Have you tried a manual rebuild of thumbnails for this album?

  • Indemnity83

    Haha, I’m such a dufus, I will just blame it on the late night and that I had been working on an essay for like 6 hours.

    I still had GD installed (which I knew I didn’t need, but thought “aww, what could it hurt”) and I could have sworn I fixed the priority order for ImageMagick and GD, but when I checked just now GD still had priority over ImageMagick. I just uninstalled GD to keep that from happening again and all is well.

    As always ozgreg, a voice of reason, thanks :-)

    Now to get ffmpeg installed for all the movies I upload ;-)