Emma Gottesman wrote in gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki: instead of doing this, i'd recommend either: * recompile imagemagick with -R/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.2.1/lib so it can find its libraries automatically; or * run "crle -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.2.1/lib" so the runtime linker can find them normally. either of these is probably preferable to hardcoding $LD_LIBRARY_PATH everywhere. however, if you don't want to do either of these, you can put this in LocalSettings.php: putenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.2.1/lib:" . getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH")); and something similar for MAGICK_HOME. your shell init files are not (normally) read by PHP, so they won't have an effect on PHP's environment. alternatively, you could set these before starting Apache and they would take effect for all CGI programs. (for example, copy /lib/svc/method/http-apache2 to somewhere else, modify it as needed and change the 'start/exec' SMF property for network/http:apache2 to the new file: mkdir -p /etc/local/svc/method/ cp /lib/svc/method/httpd-apache2 /etc/local/svc/method/httpd-apache2 vi /etc/local/svc/method/httpd-apache [ ... add exports ... ] svccfg -s network/httpd:apache2 setprop \ start/exec = /etc/local/svc/method/httpd-apache2 i've not tested this, but i believe it should work. ) i believe that Sun's supplied apache2 (in /usr/apache2/) does run as "webservd" by default, but you can do: grep \^User /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to find out. since Apache isn't normally started by this user, though, changing its shell profile isn't likely to affect it. kate.