imagick module

Hi, David:

I contacted Bitnami as well and this is the response, in case anybody else needs it:

"imagick extension is included in our WordPress solution. In order to enable it, you should follow these steps:

Access your instance via SSH
Edit your /opt/bitnami/php/etc/php.ini file and change
;extension=imagick.so

by

extension=imagick.so

Restart php-fpm:
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart php-fpm

Since it is recommended, I'm going to enable it by default for future releases."

Thank you for your help. Have a great day.

Sofia

What blueprint did you use?

You probably need to install the php imagemagick module. Something like php71-pecl-imagick (for the version of PHP you are using).

Appreciate your response, David.

The Lightsail instance description says the following:

WordPress Certified by Bitnami and Automattic 5.2.2-3
Bitnami, the leaders in application packaging, and Automattic, the experts behind WordPress, have teamed up to offer this official WordPress image. This image is a pre-configured, ready-to-run image for running WordPress on Amazon Lightsail.

I´m trying to figure out if this module is truly optional. Will my site´s functionality be compromised without it?

Well, if Wordpress says it's optional, then it's probably optional.

That said, if you want to install it, try this command:

sudo apt-get install php-imagick

david

Thank you for the above info. I have two Lightsail instances. It worked perfectly on one of my Lightsail wordpress instances. However for the other one, the one ending in kilimler, it gave me the

"Unable to load dynamic library '/opt/bitnami/php/lib/php/extensions/imagick.so"

error because it was not installed in that instance... I looked into installing it, but it looks like a complicated process that would need manual upgrades etc...

Can bitnami engineers install this on my instance?

Bitnami doesn't support the instances, they just created the blueprint. They can't fix it.

You'll have to make sure imagick is installed.

Try running sudo apt-get install php-imagick

That should install the php module and dependent packages.