Uploaded Images No Longer Displaying

  • I have been running my site for about a year and just recently (for several weeks now), the images are not displaying on my site. They were all showing properly and all of a sudden stopped. The only ones that show are ones that are routed from websites, but images uploaded from my computer to my media library are not showing.

    Where there were images, there is nothing now (not a broken link icon, not a black outline, etc.). The only exception to this is my header which, in place of the image, displays the name of the file.

    I am running the most recent version of WordPress, the theme I use is Cutline and my host is Dreamhost. I checked the images in my ftp and they are where they belong. I checked the “settings>media/miscellaneous” in wordpress and the correct file is listed in “Store uploads in this folder” (“Full URL path to files” is blank and “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders” is checked). I checked the site on both Firefox and Internet Explorer and it looks the same on either browser.

    The website is https://ArtFeedOnline.com

    Any feedback or suggestions are appreciated!!! I’m now officially done with anything I know how to do!

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  • Check the file/directory permissions.

    Thread Starter franklinm82

    (@franklinm82)

    Thanks for the response webjunk.
    I tried changing them a few times but none of the changes made a difference. How do I know what the permissions are supposed to be?

    Different hosts need something different and its been a while since i worked on dreamhost.
    Try for directories:
    0755. -rwxr-xr-x

    I can not even get the pictures to load from a direct link. So its being blocked by permissions, .htaccess restrictions or something else.

    I downloaded one of the weird, solid white images and my image application said it was corrupted.

    Thread Starter franklinm82

    (@franklinm82)

    Thanks for the help.

    The upload folder is on permission 755. How do I check .htaccess?

    If the file is corrupted, do you know what would cause that to happen? Is the only way to fix it to upload all images again?

    .htaccess will be in the main WordPress directory.
    If you post it here we can take a look.

    Would ftp an image from the we server. See if it is visible on your local computer. If they are corrupted (I have doubts) then you will need to upload your backups of those files.

    Thread Starter franklinm82

    (@franklinm82)

    sigh, ok I had changed the permissions of the uploads folder to 755 by right-clicking on the folder and going to Properties. Just now, I tried right-clicking on Properties (inc. files) and changed the permissions for the uploads folder to 755 *including any contained files or folders* …apparently that was a bad idea, because I clicked on it a second time and the permissions came up as 000 and now when I try to open that folder through the ftp, it says “550 /artfeedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010: No such file or directory” I’m sorry for digging myself deeper. Any idea what caused this or how to reverse it? It’s the only change I made.

    Just change Each and every folder (can’t be that many) from /uploads and below that to 755. Not big deal.

    Thread Starter franklinm82

    (@franklinm82)

    When I right-click the folder to try to do that, that’s when the 550 error comes up. It won’t let me change the permissions back to 755. Is there another way to do it?

    Thread Starter franklinm82

    (@franklinm82)

    *Correction* Strangely, the 550 error must have been temporary– All of a sudden, it’s letting me into properties and I was now able ot set the permissions back to 755.

    Now to backtrack to .htaccess and possibly-corrupt images. Forgive me, but I’m not sure how to do these 2 steps (I’m clearly a beginner!).

    How do I post the .htaccess from the WP directory?
    And how do I “ftp an image” from the webserver?

    (Thank you for your patience)

    Here is one of the bad, all-white photos (it’s only 8 KB in size):

    https://artfeedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/peacock-feather-tote-detail-1-150×150.jpg

    I don’t see how bad permissions can make an image lose its data. Here’s the error I get when I try to open the downloaded image with a graphics program:

    An error occurred while decompressing the JPEG/JFIF document “peacock-feather-tote-detail-1-150×150.jpg”. Some parts of the picture may be missing.

    Contact your web host, they may have some ideas about what might be going on.

    Even with the link from iridiax I do not see ANY image. The error received may be do to not receiving ANY image.
    Need to go back to the basics.

    htaccess will be in the main WordPress directory. Open it in your ftp program and copy the text here.

    Did you ftp an image from the web server to your local computer? Then look at it in Paint, GIMP or what ever graphic program you use.

    You can’t see the image because it is white. If the image were being blocked by permissions, I wouldn’t have been able to download it.

    i am having a problem a bit similar to this one

    after updating to worpdress 3.0 now none of my images on the website i had uploaded using wp media gallery show up.

    I tried to activate the multisite feature but i host WP on its on folder.
    https://www.letrina.net/Wordpress but my url is https://www.letrina.net

    so i did not want to mess with that at the moment and changed the config.php file again

    now all images from all posts are blank and clicking on the blank space redirects you to a 404 page. from what i saw for some reason now is that when the page is rendered on any browser and i hover over where an image would be the name of the directory has changed from https://www.letrina.net/Wordpress/…… to https://www.letrina.net/WordPress….

    that capital P is the problem.

    but i checked the links inserted and the P in not capitalized, it only shows up like that after a broeswer renders the page

    why and how this happens? i have no idea
    how would i go about fixing this?

    thanks

    Thread Starter franklinm82

    (@franklinm82)

    What should I be using to open the htaccess file? There is an htaccess in my hard drive’s artfeedonline folder dated May 23. But the htaccess file that appears in my artfeedonline.com folder on the server is grayed and dated May 24th.

    I also noticed on my hard drive (NOT my hard drive’s artfeedonline folder, but in My Documents) another htaccess that appears to be from June 23 (today). I’m not sure if that would be related? I should also mention that I have another website aside from artfeedonline.

    When I click on htaccess (on hard drive or ftp), it asks what program to use to open it…

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