Project:Support desk/Sections/Images

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Background image on pages?
I'm designing a page layout template for members of a wiki I admin to use for their user page and other pages that they create. I'd like to be able to use an image for backgrounds in this template. How can I accomplish this?


 * What versions of MediaWiki, PHP, etc. are you running along with a URL of your wiki? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  17:06, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Let's see. This is needed for two separate wiki's really. The first is as follows: MediaWiki version: 1.6.8 PHP version: 	5.2.4 MySQL version: 	5.0.45-community URL: http://evolution-rpg.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page The second is as follows: MediaWiki version: 1.11.0 PHP version: 	5.2.5 MySQL version: 	5.0.45-community URL: http://sharnyl.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

75.167.211.181 13:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You would have to upload the image to your wiki whether it be manually (using FileZilla or whatnot), or using the upload function. Then you would have to write out the code as to where the image is supposed to go in for instance MediaWiki:Monobook.css, if that is what you want to guide off of. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  15:29, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I guess I should rephrase the question as this: How can I tell the wiki to accept the html coding for using an image for a background that the text would be placed on? Example coding:  75.167.211.181 13:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Please sign your posts with ~ . As for the body tags I don't know I will leave this to another member of MST. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  18:15, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I hope this is solved too because I really want to do this too. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Me too! I'm anxious to be able to do this ^_^ 75.167.199.197 01:27, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Just curious if there's a step closer to resolving this? 75.167.199.197 18:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Extension:RawMsg allows you to add HTML code to pages as does Extension:HTMLets --Chris  08:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. That should work for other types of coding I'd like to be able to do using html, but when I tried both for having an image as a page's background that the text would be placed on top of, it didn't work 75.167.200.148 12:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Is there any update to this? 75.167.205.251 03:25, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Thumbnails Not Working
I get an error for thumbnails: "Error creating thumbnail: sh: convert: command not found". My LocalSettings.php includes the line '$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/local/bin/convert";' and this is the correct path for the convert executable. And it has execute privileges for all users. Any idea what could be wrong? (Reinstalling ImageMagick did not help either.)—99.236.141.81 04:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, I encountered the same problems like you before. Are you using a webhost to host your site? If so, this thing requires your webhost to do something as it involves some server security features. &mdash; PM Poon 12:26, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * No, I am not using a webhost. I'm using MediaWiki 1.11, Apache 2, PHP 5, and MySQL 5. —99.236.141.81 19:17, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps I should have mentioned that the files involved were SVG files. —99.236.141.81 19:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Try setting $wgSVGConverterPath to /usr/local/bin --Nad 20:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, it works now. Thanks! —99.236.141.81 21:48, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I had this same problem before I upgraded to 11, I haven't uploaded any images yet, I am still trying to restore my database. PatPeter 01:56, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I have a problem that is like this: Error message: Error creating thumbnail: The system cannot find the path specified. I have a line in my Localsettings.php: $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert", but in that folder there are no commands, just files like svnstat and ulimit*. What command do I need to convert? How can I solve this problem? -194.138.26.89 11:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes when I try to upload a file it asks me if I want to open or save, how can I fix this? I am using Mozilla Firefox. -PatPeter 02:33, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Look here: Image. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team
 * Do you have a recent version of ImageMagick installed? find where it's put the convert command and set $wgImageMagickConvertCommand to its full pathname. --Nad 05:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I have this for my image settings in LocalSettings.php:

$wgEnableUploads		= true;
 * 1) To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory
 * 2) is writable, then set this to true:

$wgUseImageResize		= true; $wgUseImageMagick      = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

How do I find the full URL? -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  05:20, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Not sure if this was addressed, but  from the command line should give you the correct path to convert for your OS if it (and which) is installed --Zven 08:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * So where can I find "which convert"? -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  23:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You don't find it, just type which convert in to your shell and it will tell you the full pathname of the convert utility which you should then set your $wgImageMagickConvertCommand to (or create a symlink to it in /usr/bin since that's the normal location for it). If it doesn't find any, then you shuld install ImageMagick or set $wgUseImageMagick to false so it uses PHP's GD lib instead --Nad 23:18, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Forgive me for being a noob, but where can I type it, like where is the shell? -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  04:04, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The shell is just the command line of the computer your wiki is running on, if you've never accessed the shell, then I guess you must be running your wiki on a shared web host who offer restricted access to the system in which case you'll need to ask them whether they have ImageMagick installed and where it is located etc. --Nad 04:41, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I have full access to the database along with the image files, the includes, extensions, LocalSettings.php, etc. but I don't have access to the computer the Wiki is running on, correct. In /usr/bin is the default location for that, do you mean that those are folders on the computer server? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  22:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Secure Shell would be useful to give you a Shell console. Then you can check if the file convert is in the filesystem path by typing  in the console--Zven 03:57, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Any particular client you would suggest? FileZilla is listed here, but I don't think that is SSH... the wikipedia page is somewhat confusing. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  18:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like your on a windows machine connecting to a *unix server. Putty will do the job. All those applications are using the SSL protocol, some provide secure copy functionality, some provide an interactive SSH window console. One that does both is best. --Zven 19:36, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * So I downloaded Putty, what information do I put in to access the database? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  17:31, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Images not appearing as thumbnails

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.0.5 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-log
 * Database: Not sure

I'm having problems getting certain images to appear as thumbnails, when using both the Image:Name.jpg|thumb feature and the gallery tag. While some images will look fine, others will simply display as the alternate text in articles and an empty box in the gallery.

From what I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any predictable pattern to guess which images will do this. All are JPGs, but other JPGs have worked fine. Size does not appear to make a difference. All read the MIME type as "image/jpeg", but others with the same MIME type have worked out okay. The closest thing I could find in the FAQ was this, but it doesn't appear to be the same thing. I could ask an administrator at my web host to run the rebuildImages.php script, I suppose, but I wanted to ask here first. Besides, The software hasn't been updated recently as far as I know, and the problem is happening on images uploaded just now... and I'd rather not have to ask them to run the script every time I add some new stuff.

Thanks in advance for the help. I appreciate it.

—66.68.143.7 12:33, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Thumbnailing doesn't work

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2
 * MySQL: 5.0.41
 * URL: http://ymca-ca.tym.cz

Hi! My problem is with thumgnailing. Just reported articles are not about my problem,so I'm typing new article.

When I Upload a file I'm emediatly redirect to the main page. The file is uploaded on server, but there is no thumbnail of it. So if I click on its name,I'm always redirect to the main page. All the settings I tried, I think there is all right. Do you know, what it could be? Thanks

—Finalgrab 15:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Cannot upload images

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.1.4 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-log
 * Database: Unknown, if you know how to figure it out please tell me.
 * URL: Red Orchestra Wiki

Whenever I try to upload an image on Mozilla Firefox it asks me if I want to open or download, how do I stop it from doing this so I can upload images?

—-PatPeter 02:59, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Worked fine for me on Mozilla Firefox version 2.0.0.11: http://www.maporchestra.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Test.jpg — color probe (talk | contribs) 13:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I should have been more specific, I didn't make my full report here but rather in another thread in Archive 14 about what is not uploading. For instance anything that is not a jpg, png, or ogg causes an error like this, my file extensions:

$wgFileExtensions  = array('png','jpg','jpeg','ico','bmp','ogg','doc','xls','ppt','docx','xlsx','pps','mp3','sxc','pdf','nse','rom','ukx','uc','uax','usx','utx','u');


 * I actually don't need pdfs and docs so I will take those out:

$wgFileExtensions  = array('png','jpg','jpeg','ico','bmp','ogg','rom','ukx','uc','uax','usx','utx','u');


 * -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  20:30, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Also somehow FileExtensions got deleted from LocalSettings, probably when I upgraded the wiki, so let me put that back in and check. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  20:32, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * BUMP. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  20:45, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Anyone? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  02:30, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've seen this behaviour in my previous installation (MediaWiki 1.6). Sometimes it went wrong (downloaded the index.php) and most times it went right... So whenever this occured, I just tried again. I never found out what the problem was, sorry. Theo s 12:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Update, it is PHP (the program) asking you if you want to download index.php, so that problem is fixed, now the newer problem is that now it displays a blank page when I try to upload. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  01:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

problems with GIF after upgrade to MediaWiki 1.11.0

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.4 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.27

Hi, I upgraded from MediaWiki 1.6 to 1.11.0 and all went well except: Images in GIF format don't show anymore on the pages. PNG and JPG images are OK, but when I put, it will give me only this text as a hyperlink, w/o showing the image.. Any help appreciated! —Theo s 10:03, 24 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Found an answer at, but unfortunately this script maintenance/rebuildImages.php is not at my server... :( Theo s 10:16, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, found the script, but it contains errors...

code-snippet as of line 82:

printf( "%s: %6.2f%% done on %s; ETA %s [%d/%d] %.2f/sec <%.2f%% updated>\n",                       wfTimestamp( TS_DB, intval( $now ) ),                        $portion * 100.0,                        $this->table,                        wfTimestamp( TS_DB, intval( $eta ) ),                        $completed,   // $completed does not appear to be defined.                        $this->count,                        $rate,        // $rate does not appear to be defined.                        $updateRate * 100.0 ); flush; }

The comments state that 2 variables ($completed and $rate) are not defined, and that's the case.. Theo s 11:55, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Anybody any suggestions please...?? Theo s 11:11, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Unzip the rebuildimages script from the .zip file of MediaWiki and put it in its respective folder. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  23:30, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, that's what I did before... See the code-snippet above. Output from the script:

test1-wiki 2008-01-04 22:29:49: Processing image... PHP Notice: Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89 2008-01-04 22:29:49: 14.81% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated> PHP Notice: Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89 2008-01-04 22:29:49: 29.63% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated> PHP Notice: Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89 2008-01-04 22:29:49: 44.44% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated> PHP Notice: Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89 2008-01-04 22:29:49: 59.26% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated> PHP Notice: Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89 2008-01-04 22:29:49: 74.07% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated> PHP Notice: Undefined variable: completed in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 87 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: rate in /var/www/vhosts/www.test.arbace.nl/HTML/arbace/maintenance/rebuildImages.php on line 89 2008-01-04 22:29:49: 88.89% done on image; ETA 2008-01-04 22:29:49 [0/675] 0.00/sec <0.00% updated> test1-wiki 2008-01-04 22:29:49: Finished image... 0 of 675 rows updated test1-wiki 2008-01-04 22:29:49: Processing oldimage... test1-wiki 2008-01-04 22:29:49: Finished oldimage... 0 of 1 rows updated

Thanks in advance for any help. Theo s 22:32, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Bump. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  18:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Are you still having this problem? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  19:15, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately yes, I do. I tried uploading existing images again, and even tried to upload converted images (from GIF to JPG or the other way around)... nothing seems to help... :( Theo s 21:53, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * What does your  read? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

$ cat LocalSettings.php | grep -i wgfileextensions $wgFileExtensions = array( 'gif', 'png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ogg', 'rtf', 'doc', 'xls', 'ppt', 'pdf', 'zip', 'wzmul' );
 * Thanks, Theo s 10:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Where did the

$ cat LocalSettings.php | grep -i wgfileextensions come from? I haven't seen that before, also try changing your file extensions to: $wgFileExtensions = array('jpg','png','ogg','gif','jpeg','rtf','doc','xls','ppt','pdf','zip','wzmul'); Also may I ask are you able to upload your .zip files? I am trying to upload similar files on. -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team  15:41, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The "cat" command is used on our Linux server to display the content of the LocalSettings.php file, grep -i to filter only the wgfileextensions setting. I accidently included the command when I posted my message, the cat is not in de LocalSettings.php file...
 * I will change the $wgFileExtensions setting according to your advice, but don't see much difference... I will post any change in behaviour here after I'm done.
 * Yes, I can upload .zip files, no problem... I will take a look at your trouble there.
 * thanks again, Theo s 12:22, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * update: changed to $wgFileExtensions but that makes no difference at all... :( Theo s 12:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Bump... anybody? Theo s 14:30, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Another bump... anybody any idea in how to approach this? Thanks! Theo s 14:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

How to upload Large Files?
hi,

How to enable large file uploads? i had put '''$wgMaxUploadSize = 1024*1024*500; $wgUploadSizeWarning = false; and this one is too $wgCheckFileExtensions = false; not making any change !! plz mail me to likhin@gmail.com any valuable helps will be appreciated.


 * You will also need to change some configuration in the php.ini file, specifically the upload_max_filesize option. See File Uploads Configuration Options. If you don't have access to this file, you will probably have to contact your webhost provider. — color probe (talk | contribs | [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]Support team) 18:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * What folder is php.ini in? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  23:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * This problem is similar to mine . -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  22:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Image upload problem

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.3 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 4.1.22
 * URL: http://www.qedoc.org/en/index.php?title=Special:Upload (no longer shows problem due to work-around)

--McCormack 14:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Additional info: User:McCormack/Upload problem
 * Attempts to upload any image of any format produce the system message: Warning: fopen(/var/tmp/phpepykKu) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/home/[account_name]/www/htdocs/en/includes/MacBinary.php on line 46 + 3 further ones.
 * Actually this line probably isn't the main problem itself, as the macbinary check is optional, but the fopen's are failing everywhere else as well.
 * Playing around with LocalSettings.php can produce more errors if required. If the upload form is checked to ignore warnings, the file actually uploads and is placed in the /images/... dirctory structure, but it cannot be displayed using the [[Image:...]] tag, so this is not a viable workaround.
 * Prior to this, I upgraded from MediaWiki 1.6 to 1.11. Installation went fine, and there are no signs of any other problems - e.g. page creation, movement, file deletion, logins, etc all work fine. Images uploaded fine before the upgrade. On Mediawiki installations on the same server which are still at 1.6, the file uploads still work fine. All images previously uploaded (before the upgrade) work fine with the new MediaWiki installation.
 * Set just about every directory permission in sight to 777. However directory permissions are unlikely to be the problem, because a MediaWiki 1.6 installation is still successfully using the same upload directory (e.g. (/var/tmp/phpepykKu).
 * Jiggled every available flag for LocalSettings.php
 * Trawled through php.ini and ensured that everything is as it should be. Safe mode is off; open_basedir has no value; allow_url_fopen is enabled.
 * Put debugging code into SpecialUpload.php and verified that Mediawiki 1.6 (working) was using the same upload directory as Mediawiki 1.11 (not working). The only difference between the two installations is that 1.6 is using PHP4 and 1.11 is using PHP5 (both on the same server). 1.11 uses an .htaccess entry to send php files to the php5 parser.
 * Trawled through this site and googled for anything even resembling a similar problem - all with no success.


 * Eventually I found a cludge (changed a couple of lines in SpecialUpload.php) which enabled new file uploads under all conditions and re-uploads if warnings deactivated. I wouldn't exactly call this a wonderful resolution, but it seems to work. --McCormack 11:12, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * ...so what lines did you change McCormack? Your post is somewhat pointless, you said you have a solution and didn't give it :P -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  01:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The point of my 2nd post was to spare any helpful support guy from overexerting themselves on my behalf ;-) The first post is probably worth leaving for the record, as I recreated this problem on two different servers and it might actually affect someone else. Anyway, the details of the cludge: I found that pretty well every PHP f???? method was failing for want of permissions (which was illogical, as the permissions were OK), but the good old move_uploaded_file method still worked. So I did the obvious and moved the file to a new temporary location where the f???? methods started working again. I've little idea why it worked, but it worked excellently. --McCormack 18:59, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds a bit like my problem, which is why I was seeking your solution, could you put the lines you changed in pre tags? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  20:22, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply. I read a couple of times during my debugging, and I don't think it was the same problem. At least, not the same symptoms. Perhaps a related cause. I added the lines below to SpecialUpload.php, but not in the same place as an expert would, because my stashing still doesn't work (not that it needs to). --McCormack 15:53, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Uploading Large Files

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.4 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-log
 * URL: http://lolslayer.com/mediawiki-1.6.10/index.php5?title=Main_Page

I keep trying to upload large files and it keeps timing out. How do I fix this?

MediaWiki- 1.11 (The URL says 1.6 because I don't know how to move the wiki into the main folder and prevent it rom messing up. If you can help me with this too I'd appreciate it)

Link- http://lolslayer.com/mediawiki-1.6.10/index.php5?title=Main_Page

-157.89.75.237 17:45, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I also have a new problem. I get a "Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 38273024) (tried to allocate 3652 bytes) in /homepages/35/d215937493/htdocs/lolslayer/mediawiki-1.6.10/includes/media/Bitmap.php5 on line 168" message when I try to visit http://lolslayer.com/mediawiki-1.6.10/index.php5?title=Special:Newimages . Any help on this too?


 * 157.89.75.237 09:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Image for section edit links from within MediaWiki (no extension)

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
 * Database: Er... Is this not the same as MySQL?
 * URL: Home intranet. You can try http://gateway-86558bc/wiki/, but I don't think it'll work. :D

I have a question about using an image or imagemap for the edit links. Can I do that without hacking together an extension? I tried putting an image in MediaWiki:Editsection and it showed up as instead of an image. Am I trying to do the impossible? Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 19:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If you have image hotlinking enabled (aka $wgAllowExternalImages is true), try putting the full url of the image in the page and see if that works. If not, there IS an extension available that does this, just can't remember what it's called and I'm too lazy atm to search for it :) --Skizzerz talk 21:30, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Good idea on the $wgAllowExternalImages thing, but it didn't work. I'll go search for the extension, I guess. Thanks! Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 22:11, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Found it; the extension is Edit Section Link Transform. Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 22:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The EditSectionLink hook was introduced in MW1.11 which allows you to change the URL that it links to. Also, there's a system message called editsection-brackets which allows you to customise the format of the edit links further to make them into images etc. The final result is wrapped in a span with class attribute set to "editsection" so that further CSS styles can be applied. Using the official hooks is more efficient than Edit Section Link Transform which does regular expression replacement of the rendered page content. --Nad 22:14, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks, Nad! I'll have to look into the documentation for that hook and see if I can't write my own extension to fuss with the links. Regex replacements are a little bit of overkill, and I notice it has [square brackets] hard-coded into the regex. Hmm... *Goes off to think * Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 00:42, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Images are not readable in browser after upload

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-Max
 * URL:

The Problem: I can upload images without any problems and can show them without scaling. Images will be also generate for thumbnails in /thumb//..., but the rights/permissions of these images are set to 640, not readable for browsers. I must set the rights to 644 with a ftp-client, e.g. Filezilla, then the images are visible. What can I do? I'm baffled...

—Dbt 18:25, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki: 1.9.3
 * PHP: 5.2.4 (apache)
 * MySQL: 4.0.23-standard-log
 * URL: thephantom.frih.net/wiki

sorry for my poor english

i want to make thumbnails but this error appear when I tried

in my localsetings.php:

—189.30.112.38 03:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Massimport Images

 * MediaWiki: 1.10.0
 * PHP: 5.1.2
 * MySQL: 5.0.18

I need to massimport images into my MediaWiki. I watched the database and found the table the imagesinformation are stored in. But i don't understand the way how the directories are created and how MediaWiki knows where wich images was placed.

Can anyone tell me how that works?

—192.166.87.111 12:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

To import images, use the maintenance/importImages.php script. For the curious: the category structure is based on an MD5 hash of the file name. But don't try to mimic mediawiki internals to improt stuff - let mediawiki do it. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 14:29, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

SVG image types / ImageMagick

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.0
 * MySQL: 5.0.22-community-max-nt
 * URL: http://www.bandwiki.net/

I recently was able to guilt my hosting company into installing ImageMagick so that we can upload and convert SVG image types. They installed the component on a Windows Server to "c:\imagemagick ". Now I want to configure my LocalSettings.php file to use the component.

I have set the following:

$wgEnableUploads = true; #false $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/ImageMagick/VisualMagick/bin"; #"/usr/bin/convert"; .... I have used several variations on the above to see I could get it to work. No luck. ....

And the following:

$wgAllowTitlesInSVG = true; $wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse = true; $wgIgnoreImageErrors = true; $wgSVGConverters = "ImageMagick"; $wgSVGConverterPath = "/ImageMagick/VisualMagick/bin"; $wgUseImageResize = true; $wgMediaHandlers = array(   'image/jpeg' => 'BitmapHandler',    'image/png' => 'BitmapHandler',    'image/gif' => 'BitmapHandler',    'image/x-ms-bmp' => 'BmpHandler',    'image/svg+xml' => 'SvgHandler', // official    'image/svg' => 'SvgHandler', // compat    'image/vnd.djvu' => 'DjVuHandler', // official    'image/x.djvu' => 'DjVuHandler', // compat    'image/x-djvu' => 'DjVuHandler', // compat );

I really don't want to annoy my host any further about this issue at this time, and would greatly appreciate any help that can be given.

Follow this link to see the error I am getting and what happens with the images: http://wiki.spokanebands.com/index.php?title=Special:Uncategorizedimages

—216.223.16.33 02:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If ImageMagick is installed to c:\imagemagick (use single quotes not doubles or the backspaces won't work), then the paths for the commands should be pointing to the executables within that same dir. Another issue is that ImageMagick is about the worst choice of the available options for dealing with SVG. The one preferred by the WikiMedia projects is rsvg. --Nad 10:06, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have changed the path to '/imagemagick/bin/convert.exe' using single quotes instead of double quotes, but still have no joy. As you can see I also changed the path. After installing the component on my local workstation, I was able to see the directory structure and base the path on that. Did I do something wrong? 216.223.16.33 14:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Why are you setting the path to '/imagemagick...' when it's located at 'c:\imagemagick...', set it to the same path the executables are located at --Nad 19:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Because when I do that, I get the following error, I don't believe it wants a physical path as it is using the forward slash (indicating virtual paths), not the back slash (indicating a physical path) in its defaults.--216.223.16.33 00:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in D:\hosting\member\northwestpos\spokanebands\wiki\LocalSettings.php on line 216 PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in D:\hosting\member\northwestpos\spokanebands\wiki\LocalSettings.php on line 216
 * It's not a virtual path, it needs to be a direct local FS location. The default setting uses forward slash because the software is designed to run on Linux, If you're running it on windows you need to include the full pathname including drive specification. Try using forward slashes, but keep the drive at the start not a leading slash as that makes no sense on a windows system. --Nad 06:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Commons
Hi, is it possible to use images from Commons on my Wiki, without uploading them on my Wiki? Regards, 81.205.35.85 12:39, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No. See InstantCommons --MF-Warburg 11:26, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, not yet. Thanks. Regards, 81.205.35.85 16:10, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * This is partially possible using variables $wgAllowExternalImages and $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom.  mgrabovský  | talk  (DJ Jeri)  [[Image:Tournesol.png|25px]] MW Support Team  13:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

How do I purge the cache for hundreds of images?
I am upgrading to mediawiki 1.11.1 I ran in to a problem the problem with a new version of PHP that could not properly determine the Mime type for png files, so png images would not display properly. Instead I would just see the image name. I fixed the problem in the magic file (magic.mime for some) by simply adding the mime type for png. (it was missing)

Almost there, but when I go to any page like "Image:foo.png" the image is not displaying and is still reading as Mime type "plain/text". If I purge the individual page cache then voila my image is restored and the mime type shows "image/png". victory... ummm for one image...

However I have hundreds of png images! yikes. How can I force all the image pages to purge/refresh. I have tried many techniques nothing seems to work. It tried setting $wgCacheEpoch set to the current date, (and $wgThumbnailEpoch) I have tried the maintenance scripts refreshlinks.php and rebuildImages.php. I even tried the SQL command TRUNCATE TABLE objectcache; in the MySQL database. How the heck do I do this? Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. --Maxelrod 22:46, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Image template editing

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.3 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.24a-standard-log
 * URL: http://www.sourcefortsmod.com/wiki - Note, this wiki is being constructed and having templates made up ATM and is passworded until this is complete. It is a manual rebuild of an old wiki from a different package.

Hi,I am helping in the rebuild of a Wiki. The wiki is integrated into the look and feel of the main site. All the templates and so forth follow a theme. I have noticed that the default image thumbnail does not fit with our style. (This can be seen here: http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4343/examplekf3.jpg )

My question is this: How can I edit the look of the image thumb template? What files do I need to change and where are they located?

Many thanks!

mc_nebula

—86.4.135.223 12:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Broken redirect in image namespace

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.0-8+etch10 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch5-log
 * URL: here or here

Hi, it seems that the redirect system is broken on image page. When a #REDIRECT is put in a image page, it doesn't forward to the specified link... but it works correctly in the others namespaces.

Any idea ? Is it related with the revision r29858? ("* Support redirects in image namespace, Now doesn't require schema change)", I don't know what he wants to say with "Support redirects in image namespace", because redirects in image namespace worked before...)

—83.203.10.57 09:15, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * As someone with little strictly technical understanding of the software, but someone with fairly intimate knowledge of the general software functionality, I'd guess that it's because the image is actually an uploaded file. Perhaps if the file was deleted, and the same pagename was redirected to the new, desired image name where the file could be re-uploaded, things would end up working. -- Anon  Diss  10:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

Logo
The discription on Manual:LocalSettings.phpis not correct. Is it possible tot give me a simple way to change the logo ? Great thanks

—Spiriwiki.com 13:11, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Resizing down not working; error being given

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community
 * URL: http://hive.rhinocap.net/wiki/

I know that images can be resized by just adding what width you want after the image link. However, for whatever reason, I can only size up images. For example, I have an 80px image -- if I size it up to 100px, it works fine. However, if I resize it down even one pixel -- to 79px -- I get this error message on the top of the screen. Warning: escapeshellarg has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1061

Warning: escapeshellarg has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1061

Warning: escapeshellarg has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1061

Warning: escapeshellarg has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1061

Warning: exec has been disabled for security reasons in /home2/flulvhbn/public_html/hive/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1812

I've checked all my settings, and resizing is set to "true" (even though it's supposed to be automatically). I've even checked my MimeMagic file and the GlobalFunctions file on the lines mentioned (though, all I get is the functions that the wiki is suppressing for whatever reason).

Is there any way I can get images to actually size down? I've checked the Sandbox and know it's a problem with just my wiki, rather than with MediaWiki itself, but I haven't been able to find the problem.

—76.26.130.23 23:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Gallery and ParserAfterTidy Hook

 * MediaWiki: 1.9.6
 * PHP: 5.2.3 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.18
 * URL:

Is there a good reason, why every image caption text in a gallery goes thru a full parse and calls the ParserAfterTidy hook individually? Is there any way to avoid this or to detect (within the hook) that it is being called on behalf of the gallery (instead of the main content)?

—WsW 05:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

How do I disable Saving of deleted image in mediawiki 1.11 and higher?

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP5
 * MySQL v5.xx

This feature is totally useless to me and I need to kill it. --Yakushi.kabuto 10:51, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * What about letting $wgFileStore point to /dev/null ? --Flominator 06:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Change Destination of uploads

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP: 5
 * MySQL: 4
 * URL: http://www.wikidante.altervista.org/php5/index.php

I've been installed MediaWiki on my web space but I have got the permission to upload file only in the directory sssigned to me, so when I try to upload a immage I can't do it because the software tries to upload the immage in a directory where I haven't got the permission to access. How can I modify the destination of the files uploaded? Thk a lot for help.

—House90 20:46, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Look at $wgUploadDirectory.  mgrabovský  | talk  (DJ Jeri)  [[Image:Tournesol.png|25px]] MW Support Team  07:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)