Thread:Talk:MediaWiki 1.19/Thumbnails didn't work since Update to 1.19/reply (19)

Thanks for getting back to me! The above script returns:

Test for Unix tmp dir: /tmp Directory does not exist!

Test for Window temp dir: c:/windows/temp Directory does not exist!

Test for sys_get_temp_dir: /tmp Directory does not exist!

Test for upload_tmp_dir: /tmp Directory does not exist!

For the record, there IS a directory that appears to me as '/tmp' in my command line. But I posted this question on stackoverflow, and a commenter suggested the problem could have to do with 'chroot'. This server is part of a large university network, so I am sure the setup is fairly complex.

It seems odd though, given that the user 'nobody' - which I am almost certain is the user running php scripts - is able to write to /tmp.

Is there any way to have the thumbnailing process use some other tmp folder, for instance one under the images folder - where I know i can write?