Can't use media in WordPress

  • Resolved nikko4913

    (@nikko4913)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hello.
    I’m just starting my new WordPress site up, however, i’m running into some problems with media though.

    It doesn’t matter which theme I use, or what settings I try, I can never use pictures or media. Fx. When trying to set the logo in any theme under ‘Site Identity’, I can upload the picture, but when i try to select it, nothing happens. The same when I specify a url for the favicon, I get no error, but the favicon remains unchanged.
    I can’t edit the pictures either, because when I open the editor, I can’t see my picture, and can’t save any cropping.

    My first thought was a permission-related problem. However, the whole folder in which wordpress is placed, is property of www-data, so i can’t see why that could be an issue..

    Do any of you clever people know why this is?

    Thanks 🙂

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Very odd, would you mind describing “but the image appears unavailable” in a bit more detail?

    girlieworks

    (@girlieworks)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    @nikko4913 You might want to confirm that the PHP GD library is installed and enabled on the server, too.

    Thread Starter nikko4913

    (@nikko4913)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I think i got it to work now!
    The thing is, i’m running my wordpress installation on a BeagleBone Black. I simply started a fresh version of Ubuntu 14.04, however by default it ships with Apache2 installed, and all my other websites had been run by Nginx instead. So i simply just removed everything called apache, and installed Nginx. Then configured MySQL and installed the PHP-packages. Then i changed the permissions for folders and files (To the same as before, 755 for wp-content and 644 for wp-config.php), and then i restarted Nginx. Now i can easily crop, edit and work with different pictures, and i’m also able to install plugins 🙂

    I’m not sure what exactly caused this, if it were Nginx/Apache or some PHP configuration, i don’t now. Anyways, it works now!

    Thank you all for your input!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks for sharing your solution!

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