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Missing thumbnails and no images appearing

Post by sioux »

I have now made 112 installations of cmsms! Around 20 using the previous version, and the rest are the latest version.

When you look in the uploads/images folder, not one of the installations shows a thumbnail image and, all that's visible is a row of red x's. The permissions are all set to 777 and uploading and inserting an image works fine. In fact if you click on one of the red x's the picture appears with no problems.

However I'd now like to use the Image Gallery plugin but whilst all the indiviual images show as you scroll through them one at a time, the index page appears with - you've guessed it - the little red x's.

I have attached a screengrab of what I see when I go to the image gallery.

What's the problem? Is it something I've done or missed?

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Elijah Lofgren
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Re: Missing thumbnails and no images appearing

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I've noticed that if I upload images that a really large that thumbnails don't seem to be generated. Maybe you could try using a smaller image and see if that works?

Also, make sure the permissions for the folder is set right.
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Re: Missing thumbnails and no images appearing

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Thanks Elijah but my permissions are set right and my images are no taller or wider than 200px!
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Re: Missing thumbnails and no images appearing

Post by tsw »

GD is the default library used for making those thumbnails can you create one test.php file with content

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<?php
phpinfo();
?>
it will tell us your server configuration and might give some hint of whats happening
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Re: Missing thumbnails and no images appearing

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You can see the result here,

http://www.allinfoaboutvegetarianism.com/test.php

Hope it tells you something useful? Fingers crossed........
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Re: Missing thumbnails and no images appearing

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Yup.  GD is not compiled into php.

Take a look here for some possible information for getting netpbm or imagemagick working in place of the missing GD.

I have done the netpbm route before and it does work for me.
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Re: Missing thumbnails and no images appearing

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Do I need to install it into my public_html folder or in the root of the server?
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Re: Missing thumbnails and no images appearing

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You should probably install it in a directory that isn't open to the outside.  Maybe one directory back from public_html.  Make sure when you upload them that you set the permissions so that they are executable.  755 is probably a reasonable permissions set.
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