[Mediawiki-l] ImageMagick Help

[Jono Bradley]

Ahhh.... Ermmm... I havent actually created any directories or anything.. I
wasnt sure that I had to.. And I didnt do anything to that part of the
LocalSettings.php because I didnt think I had to either...

Jono
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrea Forte" <andrea.forte at gmail.com>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
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Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] ImageMagick Help


> Presumably you created the thumb directory and set the permissions
> correctly when you were running in safemode? See localsettings.php:
>
> ## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode,
> ## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and
> ## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment
> ## this, if it's not already uncommented:
> $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;
>
> and I assume you've commented that line back out now that you're out
> of safe mode.
>
> I think that changing out of safe mode changes the directory structure
> that mediawiki uses for images. so when you changed out of safe mode
> and changed your localsettings file i think it also changed where
> images are stored and where thumbnails are created...
>
> andrea
>
> On 9/17/06, Jono Bradley <jono.bradley at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > You see the problem I have is this - I got to public_html then into
'Wiki'
> > and then into 'Images' but there is no folder named 'thumbs' to set the
> > permission.
> >
> > Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to open image
> >
`/home/Jono/domains/startrekprotection.com/public_html/wiki/images/thumb/500
> > px-Protection_newer.jpg': No such file or directory.
> >
> > The image directory is set to permission 777 as I believe that
permission
> > allows the uploads to commence on Wiki. So I'm assuming thats the
permission
> > that allows apache to read and write.
> >
> > All the images in the 'Image' file are 'apache' I think - as the UID and
GID
> > on them all are 'apache'
> >
> > Jono
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrea Forte" <andrea.forte at gmail.com>
> > To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
> > <mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] ImageMagick Help
> >
> >
> > > Jono,
> > >
> > > I just went through all this myself. You need to make sure that the
> > > permissions on your image directories are all set so that apache can
> > > read and write to them and that apache also has permission to use the
> > > convert utility. If it doesn't, then it can't create the thumbnail and
> > > you'll get a no such file error (tho you should also be getting a
> > > permission denied error in that case)
> > >
> > > (In case your provider is running SELinux... I also ended up running
> > > selinux in permissive mode because everytime I uploaded a new image,
> > > apache had no access to it... don't know how your hosting service
> > > would feel about that, but if you set all the permissions properly and
> > > still get the error, you might ask them about it.)
> > >
> > > hope this helps,
> > > Andrea
> > >
> > > On 9/17/06, Jono Bradley <jono.bradley at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > > > Ok I've done that And Safe Mode is now turned off and there are no
error
> > > > messages at the top of the page now.
> > > >
> > > > Although it doesn't actually do it I tried to thumb a pic on the
main
> > page
> > > > and where the image was ment to be it came up with this -
> > > >
> > > > Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to open image
> > > >
> >
`/home/Jono/domains/startrekprotection.com/public_html/wiki/images/thumb/180
> > > > px-Protection_newer.jpg': No such file or directory.
> > > >
> > > > Jono
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: <wiki at avenarius.sk>
> > > > To: <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 7:23 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] ImageMagick Help
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Saturday, 16th September 2006 at 00:25:21 (GMT +0100), Jono
Bradley
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >> You won't be able to use ImageMagick unless you get PHP's "Safe
> > Mode"
> > > > turned off.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Any Idea on how to do that?
> > > > >
> > > > > If you're on a hosted server, you must request your provider
> > > > > to turn off Safe Mode. If they refuse to do so, you'll have to
> > > > > switch to a different webhosting provider.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Yours,
> > > > > Alex.
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