On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 19:21 -0400, Bruce Whealton wrote: > I just set the permissions to 666 for the images folder. My hosting > provider said that giving it 777 would prevent things from working, not that > it would have more than enough permission. Ok, so I tried to load the file > and this is what I got: > Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access /w/images/d/d3/BruceCloseup.jpg on this > server. > > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request. > I could try giving it the permission: 755, as that is what I see on the MW > install that works. However, I also see the images appearing on the pages > themselves, e.g. File:BruceCloseup.jpg > Actually, that seems to have done it! Wow. I did a set permission to 755 > on the images folder and then told it to do this recursively into the files > and folders and now it works. > Thanks, > Bruce > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boris Steipe > Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 4:35 PM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with External Images Display > > 403? > See where in your directory structure the image ends up and check whether > the access privileges for the folders look different from the ones where it > works > > B. > > > On 2011-10-08, at 19:26, "Bruce Whealton" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I get a 403 > > Forbidden error. > --------------------------------------------------- go to your wiki's directory /yourwikiname/images/ and set it to 775. that directory is where mediawiki changes the external or internal images to "thumbnails" & does the image conversions it uses to make all images that you use work on the wiki. Hope this helps. -- John W. Foster
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