[support] uploaded images disappear?

[will hall]

hi all, yep, apache permissions. the great folks at mayfirst sorted this 
out. solution below:

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Images should now be working. These are the steps I took:

* I tried to view a page that had an image
(http://freedom-center.org/testimage3).

* I viewed source to see what the path to the image was (it was:
http://freedom-center.org/files/images/soteria_book_cover.preview.jpg).

* I tried to view that image directly and got an Apache server configuration
error. That means that there will be an entry in the apache error log.

* I looked in /var/log/apache2/error.log (this is only possible if you are a
machine admin).

* The apache error log said:
[Tue Aug 14 09:49:34 2007] [alert] [client 216.27.145.117] 
/home/members/freedomcenter/sites/freedom-center.org/web/files/.htaccess: 
Option FollowSymLinks not allowed here

* Ah. By default our apache configuration does not allow .htaccess files to
do anything. That has to be explicitly enabled in your Control Panel. 
When we
install Drupal, we enable this in the Control panel apache config - 
however, I
think you installed this site before we were supporting drupal 5.1. In any
event, I added the following line to your apache config (via the control
panel):

<Directory /home/members/freedomcenter/sites/freedom-center.org/web>
	AllowOverride All
</Directory>

And now it seems to work.



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Cyberswat wrote:
> Another potential culprit for this is permissions.  We had a site that would
> allow image uploads and viewing of those images in development.  When the
> site was moved to production we could still upload the images but not view
> them.  The apache user wasn't in the correct group that owned the
> directory.  chmod 777 while maybe not the correct approach resolved the
> problem.
> 
> On 8/13/07, webdevgirl at comcast.net <webdevgirl at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Hi Will,
>>
>> This is because the "filtered html" input format doesn't allow <img> tags
>> be default.
>>
>> As admin go to Input Formats:
>>
>> admin/settings/filters
>>
>> Click the "configure" next to "Filtered HTML", then click the "configure"
>> tab.
>>
>> Midway down the page under the "HTML filter" section of the form, add the
>> <img>
>> tag to the field "Allowed HTML tags".
>>
>> Save the configuration. You should now be able to see images in your
>> postings.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> --
>> Tracy
>> http://hellolinux.org
>>
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>>>    1. uploaded images disappear? (will hall)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:00:09 -0400
>>> From: will hall <will at theicarusproject.net>
>>> Subject: [support] uploaded images disappear?
>>> To: support at drupal.org
>>> Message-ID: <46BF2079.3000309 at theicarusproject.net>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>
>>> so i can create an image node fine, but then when i view it there is no
>>> image there? anyone come across this problem before? 5.1
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> -- will
>>>
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