Holy Crap!! I'm making this thread for all of my breatheren out there trying to run IM for their CPG on a Windows machine. Short story, I used GD for awhile and it worked great, but I soon wanted to upload gif's (which I could after the fix) and later bmp's which is impossible unless you're using ImageMagick. Few coppermine users are on IM and even fewer run their own server (let alone a windows server) For the few and the proud out there though, follow these rules and you should have it all install in about 30 minutes.
1) Download the executables from
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows if this link is dead the exact filename was ImageMagick-6.2.3-0-Q16-windows-dll.exe
2) Run and install... BE SURE to install into a directory that your internet users will have access to. For most of you this is your \Inetpub\wwwroot directory. For me specifically E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\imagemagick (we'll use this for examples later)
3) Test your install, not the stupid display test mentioned in the install... test your privledges by browsing your site and check the convert utility. For my example open
http://testsite.com/imagemagick/convert.exe, a program should try running... congrats, your users have access.
4) This was the only step I found "odd" and most problematic. Copy your cmd.exe (typically in your C:\WINDOWS\system32 directory) and paste it into your php install directory (for me c:\php)
5) Tada... the weirdness is over, get to your coppermine config page and select ImageMagick as your method of resizing and enter the directory of your IM install. For my example it was E:/Inetpub/wwwroot/imagemagick/ !!!NOTE the forward slashes and the ending forward slash.
That's about it kids, let me know if you have any questions
Server specs
IIS 6.0
PHP Version 4.3.11
CPG 1.3.3
GD Version WAS 2.0.28
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