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How to install ImageMagick on MediaTemple DV Server
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How to install ImageMagick on MediaTemple DV Server

This assumes that you have setup a DV server with root access and have already installed the developer tools in your mediatemple account. You must also create a user and give it SSH access.

SSH into your DV server using Putty

Perform the following commmands to successfully install imagemagick.

Install ImageMagick

yum install ImageMagick*

Create a Temp directory, set it as the temp_dir location and install imagick

mkdir rw /tmp2 pear config-set temp_dir /tmp2 pecl install imagick

Login to MT Plesk, go to PHP Settings, in Additional directives box, add the following line and click ok:

extension=imagick.so

Lastly...

service httpd graceful

Bonus Information: How to edit and save a file in vi

Your DV server at Mediatemple has a text editor called vi. Here's how to use it.

vi /etc/php.ini

Save the file in vi:

press i to instert vi vim, press ESC, type ZZ

Wanna install PIP? Use yum to install pip

yum -y install python-pip

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