[support] Images only show up for administrator

[Ruslan Aldar]

hi there. first of all sorry for my English.
 i think u got problems in access control.
your image gallery is taxonomy. So you should find the module: taxonomy
access permission. wish u luck.

Ruslan.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Seth <sethsec at gmail.com> wrote:

> Problem:
>
> I use the image module (and its submodules like image import and image
> gallery) along with flash_gallery on my site.  Since I upgraded to
> drupal 5.7 (from 5.something), only the administrator can see any
> images.  Everyone else gets a frame where the image would be, but with
> an X instead of the image.  It's the same for the image node itself,
> or the images when you enter through the image gallery.  When I look
> in the logs all I see is this:
>
> Type    access denied
> Date    Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 15:48
> User    Anonymous
> Location
> http://removed/home/system/files/images/filename.thumbnail.jpg
> Referrer        http://removed/home/image
> Message      system/files/images/filename.thumbnail.jpg
> Severity        warning
>
> I thought it was maybe a linux permissions thing, and I tried a whole
> bunch of different options between changing ownership and permissions,
> pretty much making ignorant changes to my files directory and
> everything in it, but no matter what I did, I did the anonymous user
> could not see the images.
>
> Today I realized that if I go to: admin/settings/file-system and
> change from private (the way I always have had it), to public... the
> anonymous users can actually see the images again both in the
> individual image node and the image/flash galleries.  The only problem
> with this, is that new stuff I add when the filesystem is set to
> public mode, doesn't show up anywhere for anonymous users.  Not just
> empty frames like before, I mean it doesn't even display on the page.
>  At least when the filesystem is set to private, I can see the
> picture is there, i just cant see the picture itself. Does that make
> sense?
>
> This seems to point even more towards an issue with the drupal access
> control rather than the file system permissions.   (BTW, drupal does
> see the files directory as writable)
>
> The only other peace of relevant information is that a week or two
> before I upgraded to 5.7, I did install the image_gallery_access
> module, however the site was working fine until I upgraded (i think)
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.  The worst part in all of this is
> that I messed up my backups so I can't just revert back.  I did try
> reverting back to the old drupal code, but this issue followed me.
> I am once again on drupal 5.7, with the latest database schema, and
> EVERYTHING except the images seems to be working fine.
>
> -Seth
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