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Image uploaded but unable to view
I have an image upload script which seems to be working fine:
However I just used this script to upload 5 new pictures and they are not showing either in thumbnail or the view file. Also when I try to access these files directly via the full url http://www.domain.com/resources/images/home/groupname/imagename.jpg i get a 404 not found error. When I log into my FTP program I verified that these images are exactly where they are supposed to be.
Any idea why I can't seem to access these newly uploaded images? As I said its working fine for images that have been for there for a while, however the new images I just uploaded aren't showing, even tho they are located where the src tag says they are, as verified by the file system.
// Process new images. Resize to thumbnail and gallery.
$path = $picpath . $_POST['gallery'] . '/';
if( !is_dir($path) ) mkdir($path);
for( $i=1; $i<=$upload_at_once; $i++ ) {
if( empty($_POST['title'.$i]) ) continue;
if( $_FILES['photo'.$i]['error'] > 0 ) trigger_error('#'. __LINE__ .'/'. $i .' - There was an error processing your file.',E_USER_ERROR);
if( !$_FILES['photo'.$i]['size'] > 0 ) trigger_error('#'. __LINE__ .'/'. $i .' - There was an error processing your file.',E_USER_ERROR);
list($name,$ext) = explode('.',$_FILES['photo'.$i]['name']);
$name = substr($name,0,25);
$name = $name . microtime(TRUE);
$name = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]/','',$name);
$galfull = $path . $name . '.' . $ext;
$thfull = $path . $name . '_th.' . $ext;
$temp = $path . 'temporary.' . $ext;
if( !move_uploaded_file($_FILES['photo'.$i]['tmp_name'],$temp) ) trigger_error('#'. __LINE__ .'/'. $i .' - There was an error processing your file.',E_USER_ERROR);
if( !imageResize($temp,$thfull,$thw,$thh,TRUE) ) trigger_error('#'. __LINE__ .'/'. $i .' - There was an error processing your file into a thumbnail.',E_USER_ERROR);
if( !imageResize($temp,$galfull,$galw,$galh,TRUE) ) trigger_error('#'. __LINE__ .'/'. $i .' - There was an error processing your file into gallery size.',E_USER_ERROR);
$sql = sprintf("INSERT INTO home_images
(image_path,image_file,image_ext,image_title,image_caption,image_date,image_group,image_photographer)
VALUES
('images/home/%s/','%s','%s','%s','%s',NOW(),'%s','%s')",
$db->real_escape_string($_POST['gallery']),
$db->real_escape_string($name),
$db->real_escape_string($ext),
$db->real_escape_string($_POST['title'.$i]),
$db->real_escape_string($_POST['caption'.$i]),
$db->real_escape_string($_POST['gallery']),
$db->real_escape_string($_POST['photographer'.$i])
);
if( !$db->query($sql) ) trigger_error('#'. __LINE__ .'/'. $i .' - There was an error adding to the database.',E_USER_ERROR);
unlink($temp);
}
$content .= 'Successfully added new images.';
<?php
$image = ISSET($_GET['image']) ? $_GET['image'] : FALSE;
if( !$image ) die('Error #501:<br />There was a problem loading the image.'. var_dump($_GET));
/**
* Print the page
*/
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM home_images WHERE id_image='. $image;
$result = $db->query($sql);
if( !$result ) die('MySQL Error: ('. mysqli_errno() .') '. mysqli_error .'<br />Query: '. $sql);
if( !$result->num_rows > 0 ) die('Error loading the selected image, please try again later.');
$info = $result->fetch_assoc();
$content .= '
<div id="main">
<div style="height:5px;"> </div>
<center><a href="javascript:void()" onclick="history.go(-1);return false;">Back to previous page</a></center>
<img src="'. sprintf('%sresources/%s%s.%s',$siteurl,$info['image_path'],$info['image_file'],$info['image_ext']) .'" style="padding: 10px 10px;" />
<br />
<h4>'. $info['image_title'] .'</h4>
<p>'. $info['image_caption'] .'</p>
';
if( !empty($info['image_photographer']) ) $content .= '<p class="note">Photos provided by '. $info['image_photographer'] .'</p>';
$content .= '</div>
';
$sql = 'UPDATE home_images SET image_views = image_views+1 WHERE id_image='. $image;
$db->query($sql);
However I just used this script to upload 5 new pictures and they are not showing either in thumbnail or the view file. Also when I try to access these files directly via the full url http://www.domain.com/resources/images/home/groupname/imagename.jpg i get a 404 not found error. When I log into my FTP program I verified that these images are exactly where they are supposed to be.
Any idea why I can't seem to access these newly uploaded images? As I said its working fine for images that have been for there for a while, however the new images I just uploaded aren't showing, even tho they are located where the src tag says they are, as verified by the file system.
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To the second point: Yes I check the case of the filename, file path and the extension they are matching for both the thumbnail and full view. Which is very confusing to me.
To the first: I don't think my rewrites would be affecting anything, here is my file if you see an error:
To the first: I don't think my rewrites would be affecting anything, here is my file if you see an error:
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule (.+) $1 [L]
#page specific rewriting
RewriteRule ^waiting/(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?action=waiting&kid=$1&name=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^waiting/(.*)$ index.php?action=waiting&page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^photos/(.*)$ index.php?action=photos&group=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^view/(.*)$ index.php?action=view&image=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^story/(.*)$ index.php?action=story&news=$1 [L]
#DTCO Rewrites
RewriteRule ^(table_info|auction_info|auction_rem|chef_info)/(.*)$ index.php?action=$1&id=$2 [L]
#general rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?action=$1 [L]
Further investigation provides more confusion. If i use the wrong case to try to access the image directly via the address bar, instead of getting a 404 error, i get redirected to the home page (as would be expected). So that tells me that the rewrite sees that the file is there, and the server just isn't giving it to me?
It seems when I copied the images to their destinations they weren't given proper permissions.
Can anyone, looking at my code, tell me how to modify it so that the images created are given proper privileges? I need them to be web visible (obviously), its an apache server running on linux (not sure what distro). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Can anyone, looking at my code, tell me how to modify it so that the images created are given proper privileges? I need them to be web visible (obviously), its an apache server running on linux (not sure what distro). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>Also when I try to access these files directly via the full url http://www.domain.com/resources/images/home/groupname/imagename.jpg i get a 404 not found error.
Try comment out line 35:
//unlink($temp);
Try comment out line 35:
//unlink($temp);
Turns out I have to chmod the permissions on the new files, even tho these were inheritted before... oh well =D
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Hi Dekorian, that's strange, because the files are uploaded using script that runs as the apache user (eg 'apache') so viewing them using apache would use the same user.... therefor the browser should be able to show them... also you said some files did work and some don't... very confusing... but glad you sorted your problem...
This is the code I use to "chmod" the uploaded files or issue an error message if the function fails.
if (!chmod ($my_new_file, 0755))
{
echo "<br/>chmod(0755) FAILED: fileperms() = ";
echo substr(sprintf('%o', fileperms($my_new_file)), -4);
}
>>>also you said some files did work and some don't... very confusing... but glad you sorted your problem...
Well these files were uploaded when we were on our old server, so something is configured differently that is not defaulting the right permissions.
Thanks Ray, I prefer trigger error so that I can turn off those messages in production =D
Well these files were uploaded when we were on our old server, so something is configured differently that is not defaulting the right permissions.
Thanks Ray, I prefer trigger error so that I can turn off those messages in production =D
Yeah, I agree about trigger_error. Sometimes I use output buffering to trap messages and email them to myself.
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Second, did you check if the case is correct? Unix servers are casesensitive about filesnames...