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    • Uploading to file gallery corrupts files

    Posted by Stu1983 posts: 4

    I'm a very new Tiki user, I just set one up for my company a few weeks ago and decided to upgrade to v5 yesterday.

    I though everything had went well and I was playing about with new features but now I've discovered that I can't upload images or seemingly any other type of file to the file gallery without that file being corrupt when you try to download it again. I've tried jpg, png and doc

    This was definitely working before I upgraded.

    I've uploaded a small 18379 byte jpg and then when I download it again it's only 18025 bytes

    Can anyone help?

    Thanks
    Stu

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    Posted by Stu1983 posts: 4

    I've now restored my tiki4 backup directory and uploading works fine in version 4

    So is this a bug in Tiki5?

    Stu

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    Posted by Stu1983 posts: 4

    I'm storing the files in the database

    I tried to use directories but I couldn't get them to work. When I enabled directories and told it not to use the database the insert image button disappeared from the edit wiki page

    Stu

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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    Switching the storage location from DB to Directory shouldn't change anything in the Edit interface... I don't see how that can happen?

    Just to confirm.... You're using the File Gallery to store wiki images, right? And you get a different Edit page interface, depending if you store the File Gallery items in the database or directory?

    HTH,

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4656 Japan

    Try commenting out (start the line with two forward slashes) or deleting the last line of db/local.php (regarding utf-8).

    -- Gary

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    Posted by Stu1983 posts: 4

    commenting our the utf-8 line worked a treat, thanks

    with regards the insert image icon disappearing, I was assuming it disappeared because the plugin was detecting that it had nowhere to save the images to because I hadn't the directories setup right or something. The wee icon definitely vanishes when I turn off the save to file gallery option. I use the WYSIWYG editor interface

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    Posted by apre posts: 12

    Hi gents!
    Sorry for my Englih...

    I have the same problem with corrupted uploads, but I'm not able to edit the local.php file. I cannot change permissions, and don't know why. I have renamed .htacces to _htacces, and a file named "lock", but I still can't change perms of local.php.
    Can anyone help me??

    regards from spain

    Enric

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    Posted by gdville posts: 15

    Modifying the local.php file worked to fix the problem of my image files being corrupted on upload also. The files are now showing up properly-- except the site logo in the header.

    I have tried pointing it at gif, png and jpg files both in the DB and external to the site. It was working intermittently at first, but now mostly I just see the alt text.

    Any ideas how to fix this?

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    Posted by Mike Blyth posts: 9 Nigeria

    I am so glad that you posted this solution! After a couple of hours on the problem, I wondered if it had to do with the database coding, but that is a rather opaque area to me.

    Can you tell us a bit more? Is there any side effect of commenting out the UTF-8 line? Any other issues with compatibility?

    Perhaps a warning could be put onto the File Gallery documentation pages until the problem is fixed, to save others the frustration?

    Thanks.

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4656 Japan

    I wondered about the side-effects of commenting out that line, too, since my sites seemed to function fine without it. At the time, I didn't see a reply to the question; maybe by now it's been worked out, but there was a larger issue to fix involving character encoding, so probably things will be straightened out in the Tiki 5.1 release (no date set for that yet, as far as I know).

    I added a note about this on the doc.tikiwiki.org File Gallery User page, as per your suggestion (though the docs site is a wiki, and any one can edit the pages, I believe wink).

    -- Gary

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    Posted by Mike Blyth posts: 9 Nigeria
    Thanks, Gary. I noticed that warning when I checked the docs again. I didn't realize it was a wiki (duh) but in any case I don't feel I know enough about the innards of tikiwiki to be contributing to the docs yet.
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    Posted by hkolbe posts: 8
    ahh, thank you very much - I was at my wits end why "own images" (in articles) kept 'disappearing'
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    Posted by Xavier de Pedro posts: 1817 Catalan Countries

    Enric, can't you edit the local.php through ftp?
    (download, edit, upload again?)

    and/or change permissions through the ftp program?

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    Posted by apre posts: 12

    Hi Xavi.

    I cannot change permissions of the file at any way. I have tried it via FTP, and via the File Manager of the Hosting Control Panel.
    I can download local.php and edit the file in my local folder, but I can't upload the file, because the remote file doesn't permit overwritting.

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    Posted by hkolbe posts: 8

    Check if your database really is utf-8. Mine was latin1 (default, simply forgot to specify) and gave me lots of trouble. It should be explicity mentioned in the install-instructions.

    CREATE DATABASE db_name CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

    Commenting out the last line in db/local.php is likely to cause an encoding mess.

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    Posted by Martin Kelsen posts: 26 United Kingdom
    I am having similar problems. Conflicting advice in this thread, means I will wait for a fix.
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    Posted by Xavier de Pedro posts: 1817 Catalan Countries

    Hi all:

    We've been working on this issue during the recently finished TikiFestBarcelona2. And it seems to be fixed in Tiki5.1, as fas as we tested in few servers and sites.

    5.1 is to be released soon (later this week or weekend, probably).

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    Posted by Martin Kelsen posts: 26 United Kingdom
    Many thanks for letting us know. Do you know if this is the same issue/problem with article topic images not displaying?
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