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No Thumbnail Images in VirtueMart Category view

  • Joomla 1.5
  • Virtuemart 1.1

No thumbnail images plus the no lightbox image in the VirtueMart details view is one of the most asked questions on the VirtueMart forums.And one of the least answered.

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This really is a confusing one and the VirtueMart forum is full of answers like "this has already been answered" or "it's a permissions problem".

Well actually it is a permissions problem but not in the way you would expect!. The permissions in question are too liberal!
Check your "components" folder and you'll probably find it's attributes are set to 777.

Normally this would be fine if not a bit of a security risk but it really does kill your category thumbnails, various other VirtueMart images like the Buy buttons and the lightbox popups.
Return the attribute back to 755 and amazingly all your problems disappear!

The actual error will be in the server logs as -

SoftException in Application.cpp:544: Directory "/home/gjcwebdesign/public_html/components" is writeable by group

This means that your server’s apache configuration doesn’t allow you to make folders writable by group.


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Zuletzt aktualisiert am Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009 um 17:01 Uhr Read : 8169 times
 
Comments (10)
Thankyou!!
10 Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010 um 10:20 Uhr
Wayne
Thank you your post has saved me hours and hours of issues! It fixed the issue instantly. I am well experienced with VM and other extensions and this is usually the first thing I check!
Thanks
9 Dienstag, 02. Februar 2010 um 21:54 Uhr
Benjamin
Thanks for this, I was starting to get worried until I read this. I had made some directory changes and nothing was working. This did. You saved me a few hours at least.
Thank you!
8 Samstag, 19. Dezember 2009 um 21:07 Uhr
Conrad
I spent a lot of time googling for this one, and like you had noticed that there were lots of questions about it but a shortage of answers. You explained exactly what the problem was and how to fix it. Thank you very much!
Not yet solved
7 Dienstag, 15. Dezember 2009 um 18:34 Uhr
Kundan
Hi, I also have same problem my settings are 755 but still it is not showing images.Please do reply me on Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! Sie müssen JavaScript aktivieren, damit Sie sie sehen können. it is very urgent for me.
Thumbnails not showing
6 Montag, 05. Oktober 2009 um 06:14 Uhr
R.
Thanks for saving me a lot of time with this one!
you are a genious
5 Samstag, 19. September 2009 um 15:38 Uhr
tj
Thank you... it really helped me
i was searching in php fails, settings, i uploaded again pictures... everithyng beside this simple thing

Thank you,
TJ
Thumbs not showing
4 Mittwoch, 16. September 2009 um 16:48 Uhr
Lockerbie
Thank you very much!
This was exactly what it needed!
Permissions
3 Dienstag, 15. September 2009 um 05:49 Uhr
Wazza
Great Help, problem fixed!
@oscar
2 Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2009 um 09:21 Uhr
GJC (admin)
check your server logs for errors...
components 755 recursive?
thumbnail doesn't show
1 Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2009 um 08:50 Uhr
oscar
hi,
i have the same problem,
but the attributes of my component folder is 755.
i try to change to 777, its not work, and then i changed back to 755 still not work.
could you help me plz..
i put joomla to a directory
ex. www.mysite.com/shop

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No Thumbnail Images in VirtueMart Category view



Fix for no thumbnail images appearing in VirtueMart category view


virtuemart, permissions, really, answered, like, components, server, group, problem, images, lightbox, disappear, actual, error, softexception, logs, folders, problems, amazingly, buttons, buy, popups, return, attribute, writable, application, writeable, html, doesn, means, configuration, public, allow, directory, cpp, home, gjcwebdesign, various, apache, security