In this article, we will learn how to Add Imagick on Plesk. As a part of Server Management service, Bobcares will handle all queries related to Plesk.

Install Imagick on Plesk

ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as source code that you may use to copy, modify, and distribute in both open and proprietary applications. You can install ImageMagick on Plesk using the following simple steps.

ImageMagick is highly used to create, edit and convert bitmap images. This also supports a variety of image formats.

Let’s check on how to install ImageMagick on Plesk, follow the below commands for the installation process:

yum install ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel

yum install php-pear [for PECL]

pecl install imagick

Further, verify the installation using the below command:

convert -version

Sample Output:

[root@plesk ~]# convert -version Version: ImageMagick 7.0.4-7 Q16 x86_64 2017-02-13 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: © 1999-2017 ImageMagick Studio LLC License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php Features: Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP Delegates (built-in):

If in case you are getting the configure error:

"configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log’ for more details.”

Then that means you do not have a compiler installed. Nothing to worry about it, you can simply solve it by installing GCC:

yum install gcc

Restart the pecl install Imagick command at the end you should something like this which means the build was successfully done and the extension installed successfully. Now the build process is fully completed.

Install PHP Imagick on Plesk

In this section you will Install PHP Imagick, to do this type the below command:

yum install gcc make automake php-pear php-devel

pecl install imagick

Then add extension = “imagick.so” in your php.ini file and restart the Apache service.

You can find the loaded PHP configuration file using the following command.

php --ini

Restart Apache:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Verify the installation by the command:

php -m | grep imagick

That’s it! The final check will be best with the PHP command phpinfo():

Create a php-file in your website and put the following in there:

<? phpinfo(); ?>

Then call this PHP file with your web browser and see if Imagick is working properly.

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Conclusion

To sum up, these simple steps in Add Imagick on the Plesk article help you to install Imagick successfully on the Plesk server. Hope this helps you as well.