There is a very real possibiliy that I am the only person on the planet running this exact mix of software (isn't that always the case?). Anyway, I was getting deeply frustrated at my inability to get Gallery (a PHP / mySql photo gallery app) running on my Rackspace rented cloud server. The sorts of issues I was seeing included;
- Running any task in Site Admin / System Maintenance just led to a white screen
- Uploading a single image just led to a white screen
- Trying to use the Java Remote / Upload applet led to a "Error: java.io.EOFException: Premature EOF encountered" message
- Multiple errors about ImageMagick not being installed or configured properly
It was really quite yucky and, as is sadly so often with the Interweb, I was about to discard an application ("Gallery") that the rest of the web loved, that just would not work on my system.
Having tried upgrading and downgrading versions of Gallery, I finally concluded that the lowest common denominator must be ImageMagick. My ubuntu is 10.04 and the version of ImageMagic that I got from "apt-get install imagemagick" was actually I forget, and my SSH scroll window doesn't go back far enough.
So, in desperation, I went;
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade imagemagick
which got me to version 6.5.7-8 (the latest and greatest is 6.6.4-3) and…. everything is working now! I agree with the rest of the Internet; Gallery is a simple yet powerful image gallery app – you just need a compatible version of ImageMagick…