Platonides, Your response was helpful because it worked. I was using a wikipedia image which had a 'File:' reference in the URL. The direct link was available from the description page and was a URL of the form you response indicated. This brought me to the next problem, controlling the size of the image, which can't be done with just the external image URL.
Nevio, Your response was the next step. I activated the $wgForeignFileRepos[] to wikimedia commons and was able to use a [[File:<file.xxx>|<xx>px]] to bring in the image in the correct size. Q, You also had the right answer, but; it was more difficult to see as I had been using URL to images (which worked in my browser). With the 'File:' embedded, it must mess with MediaWiki's parser. Thanks everyone for your help. On Nov 20, 6:08 pm, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike Lisanke wrote: > > Q, > > > I've tried many forms for the external image reference including just > > including the URL without other formatting as you and the wiki documentation > > indicate. All I see is the hypertext link on the page. I've triple checked > > the $wgAllowExternalImages = true;, and that the LocalSettings.php was > > actually being reparsed (I also changed the sitename). I also restarted the > > postgres db and apache servers (I didn't know what level of restart this > > configuration change required). Also, I've tried several different types of > > imported image from several different locations. > > > I appreciate your suggestion. Any other things I haven't considered? > > Thanks. > > You place in a page:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Wiki.png > > What do you get? > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
