[Mediawiki-l] Add images to database without upload

[Martin Baumann]

What is the upload command?
Written in HTML? PHP?

Martin

Rob Church schrieb:

>Well, the temp. dir. it's attempting to copy from is not the one in
>the images dir. - it's the one on the web server. However, I'm not
>sure what the problem is here.
>
>If you do a small, pilot install afresh, and without customising
>anything else, make the images dir. writable and set $wgEnableUploads
>= true in LocalSettings.php, does that work? If so, we know it's a
>MediaWiki configuration issue; if not, then it's something else we
>should look at.
>
>
>Rob Church
>
>On 24/12/05, Martin Baumann <mailsgetlost at web.de> wrote:
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>>Yepp, also the subdirectories
>>
>>Rob Church schrieb:
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>>>Is the /images directory writable by the web server? You may need to
>>>set global write (CHMOD 777) permissions on it.
>>>
>>>
>>>Rob Church
>>>
>>>On 23/12/05, Martin Baumann <mailsgetlost at web.de> wrote:
>>>
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>>>>I am not shure what exactly my problem is...
>>>>I press upload button, it takes a few seconds, then an error message is
>>>>shown:
>>>>
>>>>Could not copy file "/tmp/php8DaiV2" to "/home/ws/ry149/.public_html/wiki/images/Cutplane_snapshot.png".'
>>>>
>>>>There aren't any files in images/tmp directory. So I guess that not even
>>>>these uploads to the temp directory are
>>>>done correct. Then Mediawiki cannot copy file from temp to destination
>>>>directory (as in the message).
>>>>But what makes the browkser not to be able to upload files?
>>>>I am not an export in web-servers and so. I should do a "little wiki"
>>>>for an programming project.
>>>>Maybe I am looking for the wrong things... I thought it would be a good
>>>>idea to look for the command that uploads
>>>>the file (from local to temp directory).
>>>>
>>>>Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Rob Church schrieb:
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>The actual uploading bit's done by the browser and the web server; the
>>>>>PHP script calls functions which finds out where the file content has
>>>>>gone and what the file's called at that precise moment, amongst other
>>>>>things.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Rob Church
>>>>>
>>>>>On 23/12/05, Martin Baumann <mailsgetlost at web.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>>I did this things. But it doesn't help.
>>>>>>As far as I can see the uploading process is done in file
>>>>>>SpecialUpload.php in function
>>>>>>processUpload(). At least the comments say so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>But which line exactly copies the file from local drive to the temp
>>>>>>directory?
>>>>>>How is the function named? Is it a standard php function? Or a mediawiki
>>>>>>function?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This is really tricky to someone that has no experiences in php
>>>>>>programming...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Martin
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Rob Church schrieb:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>>PHP's safe mode breaks a number of things MediaWiki uses, uploads
>>>>>>>being one of them. However, it is possible to work around the problem.
>>>>>>>Disable hashed uploads, create the individual images subdirectories
>>>>>>>and ensure those are writable, then enable uploads and see.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Be aware that safe mode configuration can and will cause other
>>>>>>>problems in other areas, some of which don't have corresponding
>>>>>>>workarounds.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Rob Church
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On 22/12/05, Martin Baumann <mailsgetlost at web.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Is it possible that save mode makes mediawiki absolutely not able to
>>>>>>>>upload images?
>>>>>>>>And as admin of the mediawiki I have no chance to change this fact?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I tried anything I found in this mailing list and in the internet. But
>>>>>>>>without success.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>ohhhh :-(
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Martin
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Martin Baumann schrieb:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>is there a way to add images to the database without uploading them?
>>>>>>>>>Because I have massive problems bypassing save mode I upload image files by hand.
>>>>>>>>>But I cannot use [Image ...]. What can I do to use [Image ...] with these images?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Thanks, Martin
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