[MediaWiki-l] Still having thumbnail creation issues:

I have been trying for 2 weeks to figure out how to get Mediawiki 1.22.5 to properly handle images: still no real progress; Here is the message I'm getting now. I think these are all related to some permissions issue, but I have tried everything I know of & I have researched the web extensively & tried many 'possible' solutions. Here is the situation: /var/www/ is owned by root:root permissions 0755 /var/www/mywiki is owned by myusername:myusername permissions 0755 /var/www/mywiki/images is owned by myusername:myusername permissions 0777 I am currently running this on Debian linux stable; when I load up a webpage I get a mixed array of images issues: as in some images load and display and others don't. error message from web page: error message from Apache2 error.log: [Mon Apr 21 20:19:39 2014] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/mywiki/images/thumb/2/2e/Engineered_monoclonal_antibodies.svg/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable, referer: http://www.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody [Mon Apr 21 20:19:39 2014] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/mywiki/images/thumb/2/2e/Engineered_monoclonal_antibodies.svg/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable, referer: http://www.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody [Mon Apr 21 20:19:39 2014] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/mywiki/images/thumb/2/2e/Engineered_monoclonal_antibodies.svg/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable, referer: http://www.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody [Mon Apr 21 20:19:39 2014] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/mywiki/images/thumb/2/2e/Engineered_monoclonal_antibodies.svg/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable, referer: http://www.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody the .htaccess file mentioned has this content; & is permission 0777 The file in question is on wikimedia commons & I have InstantCommons = true; in my LocalSettings.php file thanks john