Apparently I was a bit too hasty. Got the image upload working and got a nice formatting of them too on the pages. But the automated thumbs won't work. It gives the following if I try to add a 'thumb' or - say a '180px' property to an image :
Warning: shell_exec(): Cannot execute using backquotes in Safe Mode in /customers/crewscut.com/crewscut.com/httpd.www/includes/Image.php on line 246
Warning: stat(): Stat failed for /customers/crewscut.com/crewscut.com/httpd.www/images/thumb/8/80/180px-JJ_Sarup.jpg (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /customers/crewscut.com/crewscut.com/httpd.www/includes/Image.php on line 313
Warning: unlink(/customers/crewscut.com/crewscut.com/httpd.www/images/thumb/8/80/180px-JJ_Sarup.jpg): No such file or directory in /customers/crewscut.com/crewscut.com/httpd.www/includes/Image.php on line 316
Anyone knows what to do to make thumbs work also? A search of the mail archives revealed no immediate result, although it is apparent, that there are widespread problems with the PHP safe mode. (I run our site on a external server, without a say in the configuration of PHP on the server).
Kind regards, Morten :-)
Morten Blaabjerg wrote:
Thanx, that was very helpful! Turns out it was really simple, after all, and it seems I've got Image Upload working now, in Safe Mode! - was using an FTP program that didn't allow me to set folder properties, but found a new one, which did - and everything seems to be all fine now :-)
Thanx! Morten :-)
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Dec 18, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Morten Blaabjerg wrote:
Another concern of mine, is images. Since my server runs in PHP Safe Mode, image upload is automatically disabled
Image upload is *always* automatically disabled. This is for security reasons; uploading arbitrary data to your web server is potentially dangerous, and it's a) safer to have it off and b) it wouldn't work anyway until you fix up permissions in the images directory.
Search the list archives for previous questions about uploads in safe mode. (Use google and add site:mail.wikipedia.org to your query.)
In 1.4 you can now suppress the hashed subdirectories (which cause most of the trouble with Safe Mode) but you may still need to add temp, archive, and thumb subdirectories and make them all writable. Set $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false in LocalSettings.php
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)