On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 12:00 +0000, support-request@drupal.org wrote:
Is there actually a way to upload photos into my website without any modules? Also, how would I set it up so that photos would go into my private files directory?
Hi Andre Yes I do this frequently because image upload in drupal 7 doesn't work. Open your server drupal/sites/default/files/images directory with your ftp server.
You can create a directory but I find that /sites/default/files/images seems to work well as the default.
You can create new directories in the /images directory if you wish. Using ftp copy all the images you have prepared previously into the /images directory or the directories you have created in the /images directory.
I use filezilla or gftp. I usually reset the permissions on my /images/my/directory to read only after copying images across.
You have to ensure the images you copy over from your computer are the right width, height and resolution you want to display. I use maximum 300 wide, up to 600 long and 72 dpi. Mostly smaller than those dimensions 180px x 250px so that I can have text to the side of the image.
To get the images to display in drupal 7 is a bit of a mine field. I could not get CKeditor to place images well at all, and CKfinder is a dead loss for me in drupal 7 so I code the url by hand using the default drupal 7 CCK.
You need to enter the full url, not just /sites/default/images/your/directory. For example, http://public_ftp/yourdrupal7/sites/default/files/images/your/directory/ my-image.jpg
Hope this helps Roger