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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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Comments (11)
Fantastik!
11 Dimanche, 13 Mars 2011 18:33
Van
Yeah! finally! Thanx a lot Mr. Green
Thankyou!!
10 Mardi, 23 Février 2010 10:20
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 Mardi, 02 Février 2010 21:54
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 Samedi, 19 Décembre 2009 21:07
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 Mardi, 15 Décembre 2009 18:34
Kundan
Hi, I also have same problem my settings are 755 but still it is not showing images.Please do reply me on Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. it is very urgent for me.
Thumbnails not showing
6 Lundi, 05 Octobre 2009 06:14
R.
Thanks for saving me a lot of time with this one!
you are a genious
5 Samedi, 19 Septembre 2009 15:38
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 Mercredi, 16 Septembre 2009 16:48
Lockerbie
Thank you very much!
This was exactly what it needed!
Permissions
3 Mardi, 15 Septembre 2009 05:49
Wazza
Great Help, problem fixed!
@oscar
2 Mercredi, 22 Juillet 2009 09:21
GJC (admin)
check your server logs for errors...
components 755 recursive?
thumbnail doesn't show
1 Mercredi, 22 Juillet 2009 08:50
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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Fix for no thumbnail images appearing in VirtueMart category view


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