Image Library Problems

  • Resolved ethomasmcginnis

    (@ethomasmcginnis)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    I just went through a site hosting move and I reinstalled the entire wordpress software, etc. Thought it was all fine and dandy, but I can’t get to my images now. I also can’t upload images. It seems like a database issue…but that’s the kind of problem I have no idea how to fix. Can anyone help?

    There weren’t really any error messages, it just doesn’t let me get to my images. It knows there are 129, but I can’t see them to use them.
    The only error I got as IO error when I tried to upload a photo into the library.

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  • About owners:
    In WIN-SCP (my ftp prog) the owner is visible.
    In WS-FTP you can see the owner if you select a file or a directory and click DirInfo.

    Thread Starter ethomasmcginnis

    (@ethomasmcginnis)

    I can see the owner of each file and directory with get info, but I don’t know what to do with that information. I’ve said this before, the permissions are set to 775 and there are strings of numbers for the owner and group. But I don’t know what to do with those numbers or how to find out what they should be.

    I don’t know what I should do at this point. Should I reinstall WordPress again? Get a new host? Any suggestions?

    Well Apljdi asked for that info:
    ” ..@ethomasmcginnis, do you know what user on the server owns your uploads directory? …”

    @ethomasmcginnis, permissions are tied intimately to the owner and group that the files/folders belong to. Even with apparently good permissions you may not have access if the owner/group is wrong. Let me try to explain in more detail. ‘775’ means that the file/folder owner can do anything– read, write, execute (if the file is the kind of thing that executes). That is the first ‘7’. Any other user besides the owner in the group the file belongs to can also do anything. That is the second ‘7’. Everyone else– that is, not the owner and not in the group– can read and execute the file/folder, but not write to it. That is the ‘5’. So if you think about it even with 775 permissions you still won’t be able to write to the directory if the user trying to do the writing isn’t the owner and isn’t in the right group. See?

    Thread Starter ethomasmcginnis

    (@ethomasmcginnis)

    One last time, I want to thank you all for all your help.

    In the end I decided to switch hosts and am currently working on installing WordPress on the new host and importing my blog. But that’s a whole different story and hopefully it will be a smooth one.

    I’m glad this forum is here and so helpful. Thanks again! – Emma

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