I just set the permissions to 666 for the images
folder. My hosting
provider said that giving it 777 would prevent things from working, not that
it would have more than enough permission. Ok, so I tried to load the file
and this is what I got:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /w/images/d/d3/BruceCloseup.jpg on this
server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I could try giving it the permission: 755, as that is what I see on the MW
install that works. However, I also see the images appearing on the pages
themselves, e.g. File:BruceCloseup.jpg
Actually, that seems to have done it! Wow. I did a set permission to 755
on the images folder and then told it to do this recursively into the files
and folders and now it works.
Thanks,
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Steipe
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 4:35 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with External Images Display
403?
See where in your directory structure the image ends up and check whether
the access privileges for the folders look different from the ones where it
works
B.
On 2011-10-08, at 19:26, "Bruce Whealton" <bruce(a)whealton.info> wrote:
I get a 403
Forbidden error.
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go to your wiki's directory /yourwikiname/images/ and set it to 775.
that directory is where mediawiki changes the external or internal
images to "thumbnails" & does the image conversions it uses to make all
images that you use work on the wiki.
Hope this helps.
--
John W. Foster