I am trying to get imagecache working on lighttpd server... I have clean URLs enabled, but despite that, when I create new preset 'test', and when I want to add a new action, lets say 'scale', when I click on Update, I get following message:

Flushed Preset Images (ID: 10)
Updated preset "test" (ID: 10)

it happens for any action that I want to do, it doesn't allow me to add any actions....

Any thoguths on this one? I repeat again, clean URLs are enabled and working on this lighttpd server.

k.

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kalashari commented

ok I managed to create new preset and set scale options, but imagecache did not create new directories... I created 'test/files' dir inside files/imagecache dir and set write permissions, but no luck either.... Imagecache would not create scaled images... I don't know why.

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kalashari commented

This thing is really giving me a hard time... It was all working on Apache setup on my shared hosting before I moved to VPS, where I set up lighttpd... Imagecache is simply NOT creating any images now, as it's supposed to.... I manually created all folders where images should be, I chmod folders to 777, and still it is not creating any images.

Anybody have an idea?

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jhuckabee commented

I got it working with this re-write rule:

"^/files/imagecache/(.*)$" => "/index.php?q=files/imagecache/$1"

Give that a shot.

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kalashari commented

hey thanks a lot, that worked for me !

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quicksketch
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An interesting solution, but you'll find that results in Drupal handling all your images! There's not much 'cache' involved if you're telling imagecache to generate the image again every request.

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kalashari commented

Yeah, I noticed.. You are right. But is there a better approach to this?

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fwenzel commented

There absolutely is a better way: Lighttpd's (relatively) new mod_magnet module is able to do all the magic that Apache's mod_rewrite can do, including checking if files exist. Here is the link to a blog post of somebody who implemented this specifically:

http://pixel.global-banlist.de/2007/2/6/drupal-on-lighttpd-with-clean-urls

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jhuckabee commented

the mod_magnet solution works great with a noticeable performance boost since drupal is no longer handling all images

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dopry commented
Status: Active » Fixed
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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.