Image thumbnails not working?
From Cultivate.Coop
I attempted to upload a screenshot to make a tutorial.. and the thumbnails aren't being generated. I could place blind links to full size files, but it would make a much nicer tutorial if I can place thumbs using verbose syntax to create a sized & aligned thumbnail. In general, it's probably something that should be available.
I tried .PNG first, and then .JPG of the same file, thinking maybe it had to do with the format, but no dice. I'd link to the files, but I can't manage to do it without displaying them.
Hi Lippe,
Thanks for bringing this up. This is certainly a problem we know of, but we don't know why it's not working. We've been in touch with the site developer about it, but we haven't received a response about it yet. We'll try to get in touch with them again today and get this resolved within the next few days.
In the mean time, if anyone has any insight into why this might be a problem and what can be done to fix it, please share your thoughts here.
Based on the path that's being reported in the error, settings.php might be configured to look for Imagemagick, but it's either not installed or is in a different location. MediaWiki depends on either Imagemagic or the GD library, but both of them can have various configuration problems, each unique to other installation variables like the hosting OS, so there are a lot of potential causes. (Note: I am not an experienced MediaWiki admin)
Hey Lippe,
We finally determined the issue. The problem is very weird, but it actually has to do with our current package with our hosting service not supporting things like Imaemagick. We'll have it sorted out this week and post here as soon as its fixed. Again, thanks for bring this up.
Good to hear. I don't know what your hosting setup is like, fees/features/support environment, but you should be aware that there are collective and cooperative hosting providers that may be sympathetic or even supportive of the cultivatec.coop mission. Gaiahost (never used), Electric Embers (never used), May First/People Link (used for 2 co-op sites I work on), Riseup (participated in lists, not hosting), Koumbit (never used), Echoditto (never used, but they have an awesome blog). Geesh, this should be is an article: http://cultivate.coop/wiki/Cooperative/Collective_Site_Hosts
