Uploading files is finally fixed. After escalating help with ReadyHosting to level 3, I finally found someone who could change the image directory permissions to "full" (their term). That solved the problem, but interestingly when I look at the directory permissions using FileZilla, it still shows 755. No idea why it does not show 777, but since file upload now works I am done with this.
Thanks to those of you who helped! Gary At 05:36 PM 11/30/2010, you wrote: >More precisely, chmod the images directory so that the webserver can >write to it. (If you don't have access to chown or chgrp, then you >will indeed have to chmod it to 777.) > >On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, trueskew <trues...@gmail.com> wrote: > > chmod -R 777 images > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > >> [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of > >> Gary Roush > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:48 PM > >> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > >> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help > >> > >> Hi Benjamin, > >> > >> I removed those two lines from LocalSettings.php and got a > >> different error message of "Could not create directory > >> "public/1/1f"". So it still can not create a directory but > >> at least found the images directory. What now? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Gary > >> > >> At 10:46 AM 11/30/2010, you wrote: > >> >On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Gary Roush > >> <grou...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> > > Interesting that "public" is actually the images directory. > >> >Yeah, that's rather unhelpful behavior. See > >> >https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13812 (which I'm > >> >re-adding to my to-do list). > >> > > >> > > $wgUploadPath = true; ///< defaults to "{$wgScriptPath}/images" > >> > > $wgUploadDirectory = true; ///< defaults to "{$IP}/images" > >> >$wgUploadPath and $wgUploadDirectory default to false, which allows > >> >them to be initialized in Setup.php; setting them to true is > >> probably > >> >causing the odd behavior. You actually don't need to set > >> them at all > >> >if you just want the defaults, so you should remove those two lines > >> >from LocalSettings.php. > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >MediaWiki-l mailing list > >> >MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MediaWiki-l mailing list > >> MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > >_______________________________________________ >MediaWiki-l mailing list >MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l