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DONE!!!

OK, so all the images are now displayed on the site! After going into look for faulty code and not being educated enough to find any, here’s what has worked:

Firstly I had installed this search and replace plugin and swapped out all instances of the old IP address being used in URLs for the new IP address, this hadn’t had a visual effect at this point but it must have been required.

JPG images still not visible.

Altering the UPLOADS permissions still meant the images were not visible and that I couldn’t upload, looking into it it seems that the “owner” of the folder and files was an irrelevant name on the new server, to fix this (and there may be easier ways!!) I downloaded the Uploads directory, renamed the one on the server and re-uploaded it, this made me the owner and all of the images appeared!

I still couldn’t upload new images…….

Changing the permissions on the uploads directory and all of its subsidiaries means I now can upload new images also.

Thanks to all who contributed an opinion, I know very little about wordpress and felt like I was feeling around in the dark, really appreciate the help.

It must be relevant also that although I cant upload any new images via the dashboard and cannot view the jpg images in the site the png images are viewable and are stored in the same folders. I know the developer altered something at my request so that png images didn’t appear in the image carousel and only in the main body of the post if selected “insert into post” on the dashboard….

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i’ve so far tried:

1) Altering the permissions to 777 for the uploads folder and its parent (they were already set to this anyway)

2) Renaming the Uploads folder, then creating a new one and moving everything into it, ensuring the permissions were correct

3) Disabled all the plugins

4) Manually entered the upload address into the misc settings on the dashboard

5) Added (and subsequently removed) the code: define(‘UPLOADS’, ‘wp-content/uploads’); into the appropriate position in the wpconfig.php file

6) Used a “search and replace” plugin to switch all instances of the old IP to the new IP in the database

7) Upgraded timthumb (thumbs.php)

8) Switched themes

Nothing has worked so far, any more suggestions please? Am desperate to get this working now! the site just looks ugly.

OK, earlier i couldnt follow the link as it wouldnt work on the ipad but now i’m infront of a mac I followed this:

https://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everfurniture.com%2Fcategory%2Flighting%2Fchandeliers&su

which i don’t really understand, however, some of the links it talks about as being malformed have in them the i.p. address 94.126.44.185 instead of either everfurniture.com or the new ip address of 178.18.127.99 which is what the server company advised me to alter the DNS settings to when the site was not online, which leads me back to my initial thoughts that there are still files with links pointing to the previous ip address? any idea where to look for these? where would these links that are flagged up as malformed be located?

Yes it’s still on 2.8.5, apologies for that and the theme is one which the developer produced or rather tweaked from an existing theme, but the point is the whole thing was working perfectly for over 18 months but since the server move this issue has arose, so I’m assuming everything that it thumb needs is there or it wouldn’t have previously worked?

Would it help to post a directory structure here? Or the code from a file? I really am stumped, enjoy learning,but stumped and the developer is not contactable…

Thanks again for the help so far.

Ok, FTP deleted the twenty eleven theme, then the dashboard was available so enabled the original theme, so website is displaying by still no images…..any ideas what else to delve into for these “malformed links”?

Would I be correct in thinking that if I remove that theme via FTP then it will default to another?

Thanks for the suggestion, I disabled all plugins and it made no difference, I then re-enabled them.

Next I switched to the twenty eleven theme, now I can’t open the site or access the dashboard, both urls lead me to a white screen?? Now its even worse than before! Anyone suggest how this can be reversed?

Any suggestions would be very welcomed! And happy new year!

Pulling what hair I have left out now! Any suggestions are welcome. I can’t seem to find any valid reason for the images not to display or be able to upload new images, all of the png images within the posts are showing fine :-/

I installed the plugin and used the scanner, the thumb.php was vulnerable and it upgraded it, it now has a status of “outdated” but I still cant upload

Also…..I found advice that I would perhaps need to create a new uploads folder and change the permissions on that, so I did. I created “uploadss” in the wp-content folder and changed the permissions to “777” then altered the setting in “miscellaneous” on the dashboard to store uploads in this folder “wp-content/uploadss” and still get the same error message…

Also, I had a quick look at this error message and found some advice on changing the “uploads” folder permissions via FTP to “777” which it already is, is this a simple case o changing the permissions on some other folders that I can access via my FTP client? :-/

I just tried adding a new pic from the dashboard and get this red error message as soon as I select a file and submit:

Unable to create directory /var/www/vhosts/everfurniture.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/08. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

so i’m assuming this is a permissions problem as you say? But haven’t a clue who or what I need to alter to rectify it! Can you advise?

Oh and no, the domain name has remained the same only the ip address/server changed