I upgraded to CB 1.0.2 and now it says ImageMagick is not installed on my server. This is not true, ImageMagick is installed and it is working fine, the problem is that CB does not see it.

I have looked through joomapolis archives and this seems like a recurring problem ... that no one ever gets resolved!!! Did these other people just go away or did they get a solution that never got posted here?

I really need help, I have spent the last 36 hours straight on this (no sleep), my users are yelling at me and my ISP says its not their fault.

Come on CB team, don't leave me hanging now

I am glad that ImageMagick works on the CB website. However, I am not running a development site, my site is live.

I have spent some time debugging this and there are indeed problems with CB 1.0.2.

The first one is in this CB file:
- File: imgToolbox.class.php
- Function: testIM()
- Line: 648

This line uses 'exec' to test for the presence of ImageMagick (if false, no magick). However, the Joomla development team recommends disabling 'exec' for security purposes. This means that anyone who implements Joomla security recommendations will be unable to use ImageMagick.

So that kills magick all on its own ... but then you could always enable 'exec', that is if you like to live on the wild side.

In that case, the second problem is that when 'exec' tests for magick, it calls 'convert'. However, 'convert' makes additional system calls. Not all versions of PHP support iterative or recursive calls via exec.

So this double whammy means that CB is broken for me, and for many of other users as well.

Post edited by: cicon, at: 2007/01/03 18:53

Fine, I got it working - I rebuilt the ImageMagick libraries and tweaked my server environment. It's kosher now ... except for the CB BLANK PAGES.

This had me going because I thought I might have broken Joomla/CB while I was messing with ImageMagick. But then I saw all those posts on Joomapolis about CB Blank Pages. They describe exactly what is happening to me.

The easiest way to see this problem is to click on this link: showmefinance.com/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=registers

This site has a virgin Joomla 1.0.12 build on it and a fresh CB 1.0.2 build on it. Install instructions were followed precisely.

If anybody there wants admin access to the site I will email the password.

I am havin somewhat the same problem but the main issue being i cannot access global configurations for cb. I get the following error

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

I have installed and reinstalled. I have a fresh copy of joomla and cb. I have yet t find anything on the forum who can resolve this. I am hoping someone has an idea. It is driving me nuts.