Image Manager Doesnt Upload

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BTS
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Image Manager Doesnt Upload

Post by BTS »

I just installed version 1.5.4 of phpmyfaq.

When creating a new record, I click insert image. Image manager appears. I then click browse to find a jpg on my workstation and then upload to upload it to the server.

It says "uploading" but the jpg is never uploaded. I've given full read/write security to the entire FAQ directory.

thanks
jazcyk
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image upload ...

Post by jazcyk »

I really did not know that it could upload! I always uploaded the image in advance with an FTP-client! It works fine as you can see here: http://www.webyog.com/faq/5_71_en.html

But I have another issue: I cannot 'step back' in the folder tree. Let us say that faq root directory is /httpdocs/faq . I can enter an URL like /httpdocs/faq/images/somefile but not /httpdocs/faq/attachements/somefile
or /httpdocs/images (some pictures are not related to the FAQ only but also to program help files etc.) as I would prefer. Also that would keep my own images seperated from the ones that come with the FAQ system.
Also I would sometimes like the image to be fetched from another server (we are operating two of them in each their part of the world)!

All that I can't do from Admin Panel. No problem .. I just use our own excellent database client for editing the HTML, but it is an unnessary restriction with the Admin Panel code, I believe.
matteo
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Re: image upload ...

Post by matteo »

jazcyk wrote:Let us say that faq root directory is /httpdocs/faq. I can enter an URL like /httpdocs/faq/images/somefile but not /httpdocs/attachements/somefile as I would prefer. Simply in order to keep my own images seperated from the ones that come with the FAQ system.
IIRC, this a feature planned in the 1.6.x, not in the very first release.
BTS
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Post by BTS »

hmmm... well then I'm not sure what the purpose of the upload button is??
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Re: Image Manager Doesnt Upload

Post by matteo »

BTS wrote: It says "uploading" but the jpg is never uploaded. I've given full read/write security to the entire FAQ directory.
Can you check inside your PMFROOT/images if the image you've uploaded is really there? In the Image Manager "big" pictures are presented as filename - filesize and usually this behaviour seems to confuse users.
BTS
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Post by BTS »

nope nothing there and I've even tried uploading very small 4k jpg's
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Post by matteo »

BTS wrote:hmmm... well then I'm not sure what the purpose of the upload button is??
It gives the user the possibility of adding images to a faq record. These below are the steps:
1. Open the ImageManager
2. Browse.. for selecting the picture you want to add
3. Click Upload
4. Select the image in the list of the images (you'll see some fields filled with the data related to the selected image)
5. Click OK and the image will appear in the faq record

What kind of picture (=file extension: e.g. PNG) are you tring to upload?
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Post by matteo »

BTS wrote:nope nothing there and I've even tried uploading very small 4k jpg's
I've just tested it upon my PMF 1.5.4 with a 133KB JPG. It seems that in your case PHP is not able to upload files on your server.
BTS
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Post by BTS »

Is this a setting I need to change then on my server? I'm not seeing any error messages. I've even gone to the extent of giving "full control" permissions to the internet guest account. I'm not sure what else to try here.

btw. thanks for the quick responses!
matteo
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PHP Upload

Post by matteo »

Try to check your php.ini for these lines:

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; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads.
file_uploads = On
BTS
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Post by BTS »

I've checked the php.ini and fileuploads are indeed turned on. Still doesn't work.
matteo
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Need of PMF configuration

Post by matteo »

Please post you PMF Server configuration: we must investigate more in depth your configuration.
BTS
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Post by BTS »

phpMyFAQ Version
phpMyFAQ 1.5.4
Server Software
Microsoft-IIS/5.1
PHP Version
PHP 5.0.5
Register Globals
off
Safe Mode
off
Database Client Version
4.1.7
Database Server Version
5.0.15-nt
Webserver Interface
CGI-FCGI
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Post by matteo »

MMhhh.. unfortunately I run PMF on Linux systems and not within PHP 5..x: Thorsten will help us :wink:

I think that we must investigate the upload process within PHP&Windows: an idea would be to check for/set a temp folder within which PHP temporarly store the uploaded files: I'll suggest you to chose a folder, give it full control for IUSR_<machinename>, set the folder into php.ini:

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; Temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not
; specified).
;upload_tmp_dir =
and restart IIS.
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Post by Thorsten »

Hi,

I do not have an IIS server... I think that's a IIS configuration problem because I've got no problems with Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.0 on my Windows machines.

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