Hi Marco, et al,

Thanks for responding. I use GoDaddy hosting, so it's a black box as to what OS and other particulars. But I've continued digging, and finally got it to work. Below are the details on how to make it work:

*Step 1 (Optional) - Configure GoDaddy Linux account to use PHP 5 by default * This can be accomplished in two ways: a) Modify the .htaccess file in your root web folder to: AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4

or b)Configure via the Control Panel (takes up to 24hrs of waiting) *Log in to your Account Managerhttp://mya.godaddy.com/default.aspx?prog_id=GoDaddy . *In the *My Products* section, select *Hosting Account List*. *Next to the hosting account you want to modify, click *Open*. *In the *Content* section of the Hosting Control Center, click the * Languages* icon. *Select PHP version you'd like to set as the default. *Click *Continue*. *Verify the listed changes, and then click *Update*.

*Step 2 - Modify LocalSettings.php*

Look for $wgImageMagickConvertCommand, and modify its value to "/usr/local/bin/convert"

The article I found most helpful was:

http://www.ehartwell.com/TechNotes/MediaWikiOnGoDaddy.htm

That's it. Thanks everyone.

Gerard

Message: 10 Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:32:55 +0200 From: Marco Schuster marco@harddisk.is-a-geek.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Error with Thumbnail To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 48709F57.4020007@harddisk.is-a-geek.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Gerard C schrieb:

"Error creating thumbnail: /usr/bin/convert: Unrecognized option (-thumbnail)."

Any ideas? Thanks.

please run convert --version or -v; maybe you got an too-old or too-new or totally wrong version installed. what OS do you use?

marco