Apologies for the delay. I have been a little run of my feet recently.
I have tried to do what has suggested. I am just experimenting on a Ubuntu machine as well.
But I am still having the same issues. The Wiki I am working on is part of a farm using symbolic links, this will be the way we will be doing things in the future. After further experimentation I can't even upload images.
I get the error:
Uploading not possible "Could not open lock file for "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/"
I have tried to change the image directory and upload path in the Local LocalSettings.php, but still nothing.
When I include the full path:
/var/www/html/field1/images
The image uploads, but doesn't display. The URL looks something like:
http://field1.tld/index.php/Image/path to image/image.png
But if I take out the index.php and change the Image to image the file shows.
I did get the images working on a farm, but for some reason it's not working now.
Any help is appreciated.