Help! New to LocalWP and Can't activate Elementor, Imagick also not Found

What issue or error are you experiencing?

I am unable to activate Elementor on the localwp site, not the Pro version. It’s the free Elementor plugin. Each time I try to activate it, it reloads that there was a fatal error and it won’t show where the error is coming from.

On the wordpress version and in the SSH terminal I get these errors also:

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘php_imagick.dll’ (tried: C:/Users/spott/AppData/Roaming/Local/lightning-services/php-8.1.29+0/bin/win64/ext\php_imagick.dll (%1 is not a valid Win32 application), C:/Users/spott/AppData/Roaming/Local/lightning-services/php-8.1.29+0/bin/win64/ext\php_php_imagick.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘imagick’ (tried: C:/Users/spott/AppData/Roaming/Local/lightning-services/php-8.1.29+0/bin/win64/ext\imagick (The specified module could not be found), C:/Users/spott/AppData/Roaming/Local/lightning-services/php-8.1.29+0/bin/win64/ext\php_imagick.dll (%1 is not a valid Win32 application)) in Unknown on line 06.6.2

What steps can be taken to replicate the issue? Feel free to include screenshots, videos, etc


System Details

  • Local Version: 9.0.5+6706

  • **Operating System (OS) and OS version:Windows 11


Local Logs

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local-lightning-verbose.log (85.3 KB)
error.log (8.4 KB)

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Hey @spottykay

This is a Windows bug that is mentioned here with some workarounds provided by other users: