Thread:Project:Support desk/Missing Images; 1.15 to 1.17 upgrade

I upgraded one of my MediaWikis from 1.15.1 to 1.17.0 tonight, and I had the problem with about half of my images not displaying on their pages. I am using GoDaddy hosting, which doesn't allow console access, so running the rebuildImages.php script was not an option. After spending an hour or so looking at the database, I couldn't find anything wrong. All image names were in the image table, and all files in the "images" directory from the old wiki directory were successfully moved to the new wiki directory. The missing images would even display on the Special Page: "File list". Just as a test, I went to one of my pages with missing images, selected "Edit", pressed the "Save" button (making no changes), and the images are now displaying! It will take a little effort to re-save all of the pages with missing images, but it's a lot better than having to re-upload all of those images again. I am just posting this in case it may help others.

My only suggestion would be to give the option to run the "rebuildImages.php" script from the web interface. I tried putting the URL to that file in my web browser's address bar, but it didn't appear to work.