Cannot view submitted images or thumbnails in WordPress

  • I’ve installed the Entry Wizard into a photo club website (DailyRazor host) and have been able to create a webform, enter and submit images using the form, but could not see the images when returning to the form to check the status of my entry.

    On filling the form with type, class, title and selecting the image file to enter, the thumbnail of the selected image is shown. However, when the submit button is pressed, the form changes and the thumbnails disappear. On checking the test folder in the ewz_img_uploads folder both the image and thumbnail folders are present.

    My colleague, @acekin, has found that the .htaccess file has a single line:
    Options All –Indexes
    This seems to prevent access to anything in the ewz_img_uploads folder. It seems as if the “All” blocks access to everything as there are no subsequent instructions regarding what is and is not accessible. On removal of the word “All” in the .htaccess file, the image files and thumbnails were viewed on the webform within WordPress.

    To ensure this was not a one off, I installed the Entry Wizard plug in on another website (A2 Hosting host) with the identical results that the .htaccess file has a single line: Options All –Indexes.

    I believe my issue of using the plug in is resolved in my case, is there a reason that the .htaccess is written as it is in the current download.

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  • Plugin Author Josie Stauffer

    (@joanne123)

    Thanks for letting me know about this.

    According to apache documentation, ‘All’ means “All options except for MultiViews”, and the -Indexes removes just the ability to index the folder in a browser. It was intended as a security feature.

    This code has been in EntryWizard since 2014, and is probably not needed nowadays. Apache appears to have changed the defaults at some point.

    On the other hand, the same file is in that folder in all the three installations I have (one using apache and 2 using Litespeed) and it works. So I suspect there must be something different in your setup.

    If you ever find out what that is, I’d appreciate being informed.

    And I’ll look into removing that code from the next version, since it does not really seem to be needed now.

    Thread Starter gouletd

    (@gouletd)

    Thank you for your quick reply. Since it is working for me now, i’ll continue with assembling a system for my photo club.

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