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
> 
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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!

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