mikeoconnor

Hi gang,

It’s a “permissions” thing. Here’s what I did.

1) First try — couldn’t upload photos because the directory on the server wasn’t writable by the server (actually, wasn’t even there). WP told me that, so I went and added “write” permissions to the /content/uploads folder. If you haven’t already done so, make sure you create that folder first, WP doesn’t do that automatically for ya.

2) Second try — symptoms just like what y’all are describing. I could upload fine, but when I inserted the picture in the post I got a blank screen, all I could do was close it, and the picture didn’t show up.

3) Solution — I added “read” permissions (in addition to the “write” permission I’d done in the last step) to the /content/uploads folder. ‘Turns out that the server needs to read stuff from there in order to complete it’s job. Made sense, once I’d gotten it going.

Works a treat now.

Hm. I can get the Visual Editor to return — but only by using the Ctrl-F5 refresh each time I enter the editor. Problem exists on both sites on the server. But only in Firefox — IE7 works fine.

Here’s another tidbit for the puzzlers — I’m running the sites on a Windows 2003 server, and using PHP5 under them. How many of you are too?