Image Library Problems

Any ideas? Is there another helpful admin here who might know how to help? https://www.etmcreative.com/blog
Thanks!

Image problems are common and it nearly always has to do with file permissions.

They show fine in the posts I saw. Only this one at the top of your: “About this blog” is missing: https://www.etmcreative.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/emma_blog The url is incomplete.
Since we have february now, did you try a new post with an image in february? Is the direcory upoads/2010/02/ created?

hmmm, I read the whole permissions post and am not sure how that would apply. I did install it myself and I only have my user as the admin. I will look into whether my user from the previous location of the blog has the permissions and my new one doesn’t…that may be it.

But to henkholland, my problem is not that they don’t show up in the blog, they all do. The problem is that I cannot add new images to new posts. And I can’t get into the library to use images loaded there in a new post. It’s when I’m in admin.

Thanks to both of you. Anyone else have some help??? It’s still not working and I want to be able to write!!

hmmm, I read the whole permissions post and am not sure how that would apply. I did install it myself and I only have my user as the admin.

Ok. Your WP user is not the same as the user that uploads images. The user that uploads images is the user that the Apache web server runs as. See if this thread and this one help any.

Both of those links sounded good…but I got lost along the way in each.

I ran a phpinfo script to try to find out what permissions my server was running on, but I couldn’t find it anywhere in that long doc…I found the uploads folder in my wp-content and it has permissions set to 775, and some numbers for the owner and the group ids. I want to keep my permissions at 775 so how do I find out what those owner/group numbers should be?

So the Flash uploader and the Browser uploader both don’t work? They just let you wait and wait without any real error message?
Could be a memory problem on the new server then.

Try adding this to your wp-config.php on a new line right after db_collate:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

Thanks Henkholland, but that didn’t work either. But you described the problem perfectly, it just sits in the browser uploader. The flash uploader gives me a IO Error.

I added the memory definition, reactivated the cache plugin, and changed some settings that limited size of uploads…but none of those things have solved the problem.

Set your permissions on the uploads directory to 777 temporarily— just long enough to test an image upload. I’ve seen server that require 777. Often the only way to fix that little security problem is to get help from your host.

Should I try some kind of plugin, such as JR_embed or something else to make a work-around to get images in?

Ok, apljdi, I’ll try that. Then if I can upload an image, I’ll know it’s a security problem? Then what?

Ummm, that didn’t do anything. Ugh, I’m stuck.

Then if I can upload an image, I’ll know it’s a security problem? Then what?

No, if you can upload then you know its a permissions problem. ‘777’ is the security problem. Be sure to change that back. Of course this is all moot now, since it didn’t work.

Yeah, I’m stuck too. I wonder if it has something to do with the YTS server?

What’s a YTS server?

I don’t know if it’s relevant, but I have yahoo hosting. They’re not very helpful for blogging problems, because they say that they don’t support database issues.

What’s a YTS server?

Yahoo! Traffic Server. Its the http server– the actual server software– that you site runs on.

I’ve never had to deal with Yahoo! about hosting issues but there are those here who claim that Yahoo! hosting is some of the worst. You might consider a new host.