Imagecache is not creating file/imagecache folder

hmm are there any errors in the watchdog? does the webserver have permissions to create folders in the files directory? do clean urls work?

I have the same problem.
Remove-Install do not solve a problem...
CleanUrls enabled.

same problem here, and it wants to upload in a sub sub dir...,cant use thumbnails:(

same problem here, any update ?

Glad it's not just me. The only thing I can think of is that I changed to PHP 5.2.5 from 4.4.4

I've tried the latest version of imagecache with imageAPI, but still nothing happens

i''m having a question.., ar you all using the phpbb 3 module including the htaccess file of it?,its that file thats causing problems for making thumbs...,i had to make the dirs myself but thats no disaster:P

i do have the same problem, although i don't use phpbb 3 and also after creating the dir manually, it's still not working.

Same issue. I have used imagecache with great success on other sites on the same exact setup, so I am thinking it maybe conflicting with another module. Deleting the .htaccess file did allow the directories to be created, and I can see the images there, but when I added the .htaccess file back, the images stopped rendering again. I keep getting a page not found, and only a couple of the images were converted to thumbnails. Anyone have any ideas on a solution?

Add me to the list of people having this problem. Permissions on files directory are set to 777. Even when I create the imagecache directory manually and delete .htaccess, it still doesn't work.

I also get these errors when I go to the edit page (members/user/x) after uploading the picture:

* warning: imagecreatetruecolor() [function.imagecreatetruecolor]: Invalid image dimensions in /home/campfire/public_html/members/includes/image.inc on line 238.
* warning: imagecopyresampled(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/campfire/public_html/members/includes/image.inc on line 246.
* warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/campfire/public_html/members/includes/image.inc on line 321.
* warning: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/campfire/public_html/members/includes/image.inc on line 249.

Same problem here.

- Drupal 5.7, PHP 5.2.2
- clean urls
- files directory is "files" with permissions 777
- files/imagecache was not created; I created it manually with 777
- nothing happens, no watchdog messages

- I put a watchdog call at the top of imagecache_cache() and tried http://www.example.com/files/imagecache/large/files/picture.jpg and http://www.example.com/files/imagecache. Nothing happened, not even a watchdog message. It seems imagecache_cache() is never called.

Edit: both http://www.example.com/files/imagecache/large/files/picture.jpg and http://www.example.com/files/imagecache show the front page, not an error or page not found.

[Subscribing to this post.] I am using the "1.x dev" version of IMAGECACHE. I tried many things like changing permissions and removing the ".htacess" file in the files directory. It looks like a major issue, & it's happening to a lot of people...

So:

- both 1.3 and dev
- using both PHP 4 and 5
- Drupal 5.5 and up (perhaps earlier versions?)

I think I solved my problem after I completely erased the "imagecache" folder & let drupal regenerate it (restoring the 755 permissions on the folders that I had changed to 777 while debugging)...

But before that, I did little things that might have helped, so I don't know exactly what solved the problem.

* I uninstalled the imagecache Module before erasing the folder & re-enabled it after...

* My Durpal install is not at the root of the site, so in the system files options, I replaced "/tmp" by "tmp" without a slash, to point to the folder inside the drupal install instead of outside... I created the tmp file myself inside the Drupal folder & gave it 777 permission...

I did some more diagnosis. This is output from Live HTTP headers. Note that the reply is a "200 OK" with "Content-type: text/html". That seems funny.

http://www.example.com/files/imagecache/small/files/fotos/picture.jpg

GET /files/imagecache/small/files/fotos/picture.jpg HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080207 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.12
Accept: image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,nl-NL;q=0.8,nl;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.6,de-DE;q=0.5,de;q=0.4,da-DK;q=0.3,da;q=0.2,en;q=0.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.example.com/gallery
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:57:35 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.2
Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:57:35 GMT
Cache-Control: store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Keep-Alive: timeout=1, max=2048
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

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#11
wonder95 - February 10, 2008 - 18:15

Check your GD library version in php_info - it should be 2.0.11 or above (2.0.28 is recommended).

Well, finally my problems with imagecache were solved.

I'm developing a site for a customer. On their particular hosting platform .htaccess files are not allowed. The rewrite rules from Drupal were incorporated in the Apache config. It turned out this was not done correctly.

So the error was in the rewrite rules, not in imagecache itself.

Next week (after the project's deadline ;-) I will write up an imagecache troubleshoot post, incorporating all my experiences with imagecache so far.

Turns out my problem is not yet solved. Files with spaces in their names are not handled correctly.

I don't have access to the Apache config, so I cannot solve it at the moment. Site should go live tomorrow ;-{

Don't know if this is of any help to you, but more later.

This solved it for me: http://drupal.org/node/185738#comment-697504

And again a bug report. I don't know if the transliteration module will solve the problems of everybody in this thread, but reading other issues it seems a lot of people do have problems with imagecache and spaces in filenames.

So: please add http://drupal.org/node/185738#comment-697504 to the imagecache README.

I found the same problem, and the logs showed that the following files were missing:

system/files/imagecache/files/image.jpg

I thought that this was odd as my upload directory was not "system/files" but "files". I changed the upload directory to "system/files", manually created the imagechache/files directory and the problem seems to have fixed itself. This is hardly an ideal solution, as I really want to have the upload directory in "sites/site.name/files", but this being the case, the fix for the code appears to be simple changing one hardwired value somewhere to a configuration value.

I hope I'm not misinterpreting the original problem - I only found this thread this morning.

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#18
ivan - February 12, 2008 - 15:55

I did check, and it's 2.0.34.

Thanks.

@bjraines: which file errors are you getting it helps people with reproducing you know.

I've added an imagecache troubleshooting page to the imagecache documentation. Hope this helps.

http://drupal.org/node/224913

@gaele re #28:

In my case, I tracked this down to the .htaccess in my files folder.

It was a series of unfortunate events that caused this in my case: I'd moved web site to new server, so ownership was wrong on .htaccess, although permissions were okay. Files folder had been private method and outside of DocumentRoot, and I moved it in so I could use Imagecache.

I deleted path/to/files/.htaccess and let Drupal recreate it and Imagecache started working fine.

Possibly you can reconstruct what I just said into something that can be added to #224913.

Thanks,
Micah

Hi guys,

I had very similar issue...tried many things with .httaccess, creating imagecachefolder manually etc...but thumbnails coulndt create!

At the end I uninstalled Image Crop module, rebuilt again my imagecache presets and it worked! Woo hoo :)

not working for me - subscribing

I've updated the troubleshooting page.

It seems that clearing the "cache" table and making the /files dir 777 solved my problem.

@everyone...

This issue is closed. If you are having issues with imagecache 1.x please open your own issue and include any and all relevant information... modules you're using, permissions, filesystem configuration, any errors in watchdog or your apache error log that may be relevant, and the output of imagecache urls... Are you getting an 403, 404, 500, drupal_not_found) etc.

If you reopen this issue I will flame you mercilessly.