Images Not Showing After Update

@ darrin365

can you please share a link to your directory?

https://www.stonesriveripa.com

@ darrin365

Can you make sure this folder exists:
../wp-content/plugins/connections/cache

Verify that permissions are: 755

If they are, try 767.

@shazahm1, that folder does exist and the permissions are already 767. Inside of that is index.html with 767 permissions and index.php with 644 permissions.

@shazahm1, any further suggestions?

This does appear to be an issue with the cache folder. I tried uploading a new photo to one of the listings and it said it couldn’t write to the cache directory. However, I have it set to 767. (I’ve also tried 755 and 777 with no luck.)

@ darrin365

Can you try something?

Open the connections.php file and go to line 604/605, which should be:

// Create a .htaccess file in the timthumb folder to allow it to be called directly.
cnFileSystem::permitTimThumb( CN_PATH . 'includes/timthumb' );

And change it to this:

// Create a .htaccess file in the timthumb folder to allow it to be called directly.
cnFileSystem::permitTimThumb( CN_PATH . 'includes/libraries/timthumb' );

Save the file, deactivate and reactivate Connections.

I moved the TimThumb fold and forgot to update an htaccess file path that get created dynamically. This could be the reason it worked before and not now.

Followed the directions, but still no luck. When I refresh the page, and go to Inspect Element->Console I still get the 400 Bad Request error. When I click on the image link next to that, under Resources it shows timthumb.php with a “1” in a red circle, like the resource is missing. If I click on that timthumb.php link, it takes me to an error page that says:
A TimThumb error has occured

The following error(s) occured:
Could not create the file cache directory.

Query String : src=https://www.domain.com/wp-content/connection_images/imagename_original.jpg&h=auto&w=auto&zc=1
TimThumb version : 2.8.11

Not sure if that helps or not. But it seems like it’s just not connecting with that cache folder under the Connections folder.

BTW, I’ve taken the image URL from the string and checked it and it shows the proper image, so the photo file is there.

@ darrin365

I’ve located a couple other path issues related to me moving the file for timthumb. I’ll be pushing out a bug fix release that addresses a few small items including this. I’m hopeful it’ll have you back in working order. Please keep an eye out for 0.7.8.1.

@shazahm1,

Would it do me any good to try to replace the files with the ones from the last version, or would that make things worse?

@ darrin365

Sure, rolling back to the previous version is safe.

@ darrin365

I released 0.7.8.1 which should fix the issue for you. Please let me know. going to mark this resolved for now.