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1. franklinm82
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have been running my site for about a year and just recently (for several weeks now), the images are not displaying on my site. They were all showing properly and all of a sudden stopped. The only ones that show are ones that are routed from websites, but images uploaded from my computer to my media library are not showing.

   Where there were images, there is nothing now (not a broken link icon, not a black outline, etc.). The only exception to this is my header which, in place of the image, displays the name of the file.

   I am running the most recent version of WordPress, the theme I use is Cutline and my host is Dreamhost. I checked the images in my ftp and they are where they belong. I checked the “settings>media/miscellaneous” in wordpress and the correct file is listed in “Store uploads in this folder” (“Full URL path to files” is blank and “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders” is checked). I checked the site on both Firefox and Internet Explorer and it looks the same on either browser.

   The website is http://ArtFeedOnline.com

   Any feedback or suggestions are appreciated!!! I’m now officially done with anything I know how to do!

2. webjunk
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Check the file/directory permissions.

3. franklinm82
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the response webjunk.
   I tried changing them a few times but none of the changes made a difference. How do I know what the permissions are supposed to be?

4. webjunk
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Different hosts need something different and its been a while since i worked on dreamhost.
   Try for directories:
   0755. -rwxr-xr-x

   I can not even get the pictures to load from a direct link. So its being blocked by permissions, .htaccess restrictions or something else.

5. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I downloaded one of the weird, solid white images and my image application said it was corrupted.

6. franklinm82
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the help.

   The upload folder is on permission 755. How do I check .htaccess?

   If the file is corrupted, do you know what would cause that to happen? Is the only way to fix it to upload all images again?

7. webjunk
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   .htaccess will be in the main WordPress directory.
   If you post it here we can take a look.

   Would ftp an image from the we server. See if it is visible on your local computer. If they are corrupted (I have doubts) then you will need to upload your backups of those files.

8. franklinm82
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   sigh, ok I had changed the permissions of the uploads folder to 755 by right-clicking on the folder and going to Properties. Just now, I tried right-clicking on Properties (inc. files) and changed the permissions for the uploads folder to 755 *including any contained files or folders* ...apparently that was a bad idea, because I clicked on it a second time and the permissions came up as 000 and now when I try to open that folder through the ftp, it says "550 /artfeedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010: No such file or directory" I'm sorry for digging myself deeper. Any idea what caused this or how to reverse it? It's the only change I made.

9. webjunk
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just change Each and every folder (can't be that many) from /uploads and below that to 755. Not big deal.

10. franklinm82
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    When I right-click the folder to try to do that, that's when the 550 error comes up. It won't let me change the permissions back to 755. Is there another way to do it?

11. franklinm82
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    *Correction* Strangely, the 550 error must have been temporary-- All of a sudden, it's letting me into properties and I was now able ot set the permissions back to 755.

    Now to backtrack to .htaccess and possibly-corrupt images. Forgive me, but I'm not sure how to do these 2 steps (I'm clearly a beginner!).

    How do I post the .htaccess from the WP directory?
    And how do I "ftp an image" from the webserver?

    (Thank you for your patience)

12. iridiax
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Here is one of the bad, all-white photos (it's only 8 KB in size):

    http://artfeedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/peacock-feather-tote-detail-1-150x150.jpg

    I don't see how bad permissions can make an image lose its data. Here's the error I get when I try to open the downloaded image with a graphics program:

    An error occurred while decompressing the JPEG/JFIF document "peacock-feather-tote-detail-1-150x150.jpg". Some parts of the picture may be missing.

    Contact your web host, they may have some ideas about what might be going on.

13. webjunk
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Even with the link from iridiax I do not see ANY image. The error received may be do to not receiving ANY image.
    Need to go back to the basics.

    htaccess will be in the main WordPress directory. Open it in your ftp program and copy the text here.

    Did you ftp an image from the web server to your local computer? Then look at it in Paint, GIMP or what ever graphic program you use.

14. iridiax
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    You can't see the image because it is white. If the image were being blocked by permissions, I wouldn't have been able to download it.

15. kedeus
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    i am having a problem a bit similar to this one

    after updating to worpdress 3.0 now none of my images on the website i had uploaded using wp media gallery show up.

    I tried to activate the multisite feature but i host WP on its on folder.
    http://www.letrina.net/Wordpress but my url is http://www.letrina.net

    so i did not want to mess with that at the moment and changed the config.php file again

    now all images from all posts are blank and clicking on the blank space redirects you to a 404 page. from what i saw for some reason now is that when the page is rendered on any browser and i hover over where an image would be the name of the directory has changed from http://www.letrina.net/Wordpress/...... to http://www.letrina.net/WordPress....

    that capital P is the problem.

    but i checked the links inserted and the P in not capitalized, it only shows up like that after a broeswer renders the page

    why and how this happens? i have no idea
    how would i go about fixing this?

    thanks

16. franklinm82
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    What should I be using to open the htaccess file? There is an htaccess in my hard drive's artfeedonline folder dated May 23. But the htaccess file that appears in my artfeedonline.com folder on the server is grayed and dated May 24th.

    I also noticed on my hard drive (NOT my hard drive's artfeedonline folder, but in My Documents) another htaccess that appears to be from June 23 (today). I'm not sure if that would be related? I should also mention that I have another website aside from artfeedonline.

    When I click on htaccess (on hard drive or ftp), it asks what program to use to open it...

17. iridiax
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    A text editor can open it, but don't use MS Word.

18. iridiax
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    kedeus: It's a bug in WordPress 3.0, try this for now:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/remove-wordpress-to-wordpress-filter/

19. kedeus
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    thanks iridiax

20. franklinm82
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    This is all that came up when I opened .htaccess from my ftp:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    I have no idea what this means...
    Would it also help to copy the file from my hard drive, since it is dated differently?

21. webjunk
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    The .htaccess looks fine. Now must ask one last time:

    Did you ftp an image from the web server to your local computer? Then look at it in Paint, GIMP or what ever graphic program you use.

22. franklinm82
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Sorry, haven't been ignoring that question. I have been trying to do that step as well! The wrong program keeps automatically opening the file (Is there a way to change which program opens from the server?)

    Clicking "open," whether from the server or hard drive, brings up Nero PhotoSnap Viewer which says File Could Not Be Opened. When I click "Open With" and "Add Programs," it brings me to page that has two boxes (extensions, which contains jpeg and *.* and programs, which doesn't contain anything).

23. webjunk
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Can you see in Windows Explorer what is the file size?

24. franklinm82
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    One I tried opening was 6kb and another was 826kb...

25. webjunk
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Do you have backups of these images? If so, Have you tried uploading even a couple and see if that fixes the issue? If you do not have backups, just take any old FUNCIONING image file, give it the same name as one on the site and see if it comes up.

26. franklinm82
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I have the files but they were renamed when they were put into the server, so I don't know which images on my hard drive are which images on the server.

    I'm not sure what you mean by "old FUNCIONING image file, give it the same name as one on the site and see if it comes up" They were all functioning at one point and now the only ones that are functioning are images that aren't on the hard drive/server but are pulled from websites. Can you clarify what you mean? (sorry, this whole situation is confusing for a beginner!)

27. webjunk
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Take ANY image file that works on your own computer. Could be of a car, person, your parents, kids or your house plant. ANYTHING. Then Rename it that file the same as one of the images on a web page. Then ftp it to the uploads directory the image ON THE WEB SITE where the current file exists. Then see if that image shows up on your website.
    Hope that makes sense.

28. franklinm82
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Yes, that definitely makes sense, thank you.
    I did try this and there were no changes to the site...

29. webjunk
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    At this point would have to look at the site's file system myself. Otherwise have no suggestions. Thought that would work.
    If interested in letting me in, get a hold of me when I am online. If you see my Live Support is Online I am probably on and get me through that.
    http://webjunk.com/wordpress

30. emueses
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I've just created a brand new site:
    http://lightroom.mueses.com

    None of the images are showing. Not on the Dashboard nor the website itself.
    Default theme does not show images either.

    Any help?

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