Help please - images, hosting, convert, permissions

Saturday 11 January 2003 2:32:10 pm

> > On my hosted site I can display existing images but not
> > upload them. When I press store in the article admin view
> it
> > says input stored succesfully but the image doesn't
> display,
> > only a box with an 'x' in it. The image files are not
> > created in variation folders either.
> >
> > I figured this meant Imagemagick convert isn't working,
> but
> > it is installed (in /usr/local/bin). I've set the path
> in
> > image.ini to /usr/local/bin and I've even had the
> > convert.exe file copied into my own bin directory and
> tried
> > setting the path to there.
> >
> > Still no joy, and I want to go live this weekend. An old
> > forum post with a similiar problem was overcome by
> > identifying a permissions problem in php.ini but my host
> has
> > said they've looked in php.ini and can't see anything
> > untowards.
> >
> > Can anyone help with suggestions or questions I can fire
> at
> > my host or think of any other things I could be getting
> > wrong.
> >
> > The site works fine on my home PC under the windows
> > install.
> > Richard.
>
> I would check the premissions of the var folder, I have
> found that modfix does quite work right. It seems that this
> folder needs to have (as least under unix) the same user and
> group as the web service (NOT your account).
>
> I would also check if you are in safe_mode, which will not
> work.
>
> I hope this gives you a clue or two.
>
> Michael

I wouldn't be surprised if you're right and I've passed this onto my hosting service support.
Because I simply copied my files up from a Windows install to the host, I'd never come across modfix. Now I'm trying to find out how to achieve what it does at my host. The file manager they provide doesn't let me change world permissions.
Otherwise I wouldn't know where to start to find out about 'safemode'.
Any further help on what safemode is would be appreciated.
Regards
Richard