Okay my host support ppl tell me everything was installed okay. To be sure, I compiled the latest stable imagemagick and imagick builds again. Added extension=imagick.so in php.ini
...still have the problem of hanging and not uploading/resizing.
Tried with a fresh install 1.04 and still no good.
PHP Version 5.2.17, on centos 5.2.
I have imagick installed and all but my issue is when people upload attachments, animated pictures upload and can be inserted as thumbnails or full images. However, static .png or .jpg images dont show up with any previews and cannot be inserted as thumbnails or full images. If I don't use imagick and stick to the default php gd one, static images can be inserted as thumbnails/full images. Any ideas? I'm pretty stumped at this point. Thanks.
I've found a fix for my problems, I was using a vps, whm/cpanel running php 5.2.17, with centOS 5.7. It only works for me using this method, I've tried everything else and almost pulled my hair out figuring it out.
not sure what's happened there, if you run the command from the file location (you should wget it into /usr) it should give you an option to continue, then it installs from there.