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Originally Posted by BigJohnny

well they cant enable exec() or its enabled for the whole server and this is a huge security risk they say.

I did however find this useful test script
http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/880

which i put on my server
http://96cougar.com/cgi-bin/magickpm.cgi

and it tells me that they are using version 5.51, and not image magick 6

i clicked your "test" link.... and it says it all. i guess ur hosts are going going to tell u anything but the real reason why IM wont run, that being, IM is a +++++ to install! they either can't figure it, or can't be bothered. i will try dig out the exact build files that i used on the server, which u can suggest to them. they will, however, still need to load libs for each graphic format u need, (thats after u installed the app!). it really is a ball-ache.

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here are some details of my install:
IM build = ImageMagick-6.4.1
here are 3 of the lib files i installed (the "-devel" extension is important!)
libjpeg-devel.i386
libpng-devel.i386
libtiff-devel.i386
here is the shell command i used to configure, prior to "make", then "make install" (which worked for me = ./configure --enable-shared --with-perl --disable-openmp --with-jpeg --with-png --with-tiff --disable-static LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -rpath,/usr/lib'

here are 2 shell commands which tell the whole story, about the install and config, of IM
identify -list configure
identify -list format

hope this helps