On 12/1/2009 4:27 PM, Platonides wrote: > Tod wrote: >> I just tarred up and copied over my entire site to a new server. I've >> dumped and recovered the database and untarred everything on the new box >> and everything is working fine - except most of my images are missing. >> Both boxes are urning unix. >> >> I've checked the mediawiki_install_root/images directory for permissions >> or access problems but all seems fine. On a lot of the pages the logo >> is missing. I would have to say at quick glance any uploaded and linked >> images are gone too. The LocalSettings.php on both servers are identical. >> >> When I relocated my wiki I nested its install root within another file >> system so it isn't located exactly where it was first installed. My >> thought was this wouldn't be the problem unless pointers to the image >> files locations were being stored in the database. > > There aren't. Every path is at LocalSettings.php > >>From your description looks like the web path is different, eg. your > wiki used to be at http://server/~Tod/wiki/ and now it is at > http://server/wiki/. And that the wiki is trying to include the urls > from http://server/~Tod/wiki/images/... which doesn't work since they > are now at http://server/wiki/ on the fictional layout I mentioned. > > Look at which url is it expecting the images and fix the appropiate > variable at localsettings. The value doesn't need to be a full url, but > should at least be a url relative to the web root (beginning with a > slash), or it may fail with articles containing / in its name > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
Plat, Thanks for the suggestion. Turns out I needed to do a chgrp/chmod on the images directory - duh. I swear that was the first thing I checked :| Thanks again! _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
