Image can not be uploaded

[msaghaei]

In step 5 of journal setup (Journal Look), every effort at uploading graphic files (for tilte, home page, logo, etc) causes the invalid graphic format error. Upload directory (files) is writable.
Version: OJS 2.02-1
DB: mysql

Any advice will be appreciated

[asmecher]

Hello msaghaei,

There are two possible causes for this:

• The public files directory can't be written by the webserver. Check to ensure that all files and subdirectories can be written by the webserver. (The public files directory is configured in OJS's config.inc.php file.)
• PHP's mime_content_type function (see http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.mime-content-type.php) isn't working or isn't configured properly. Try creating a test PHP script and ensure this is behaving as expected.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[msaghaei]

Hi, Alec

Thank you for your reply
I used the following script

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<?php
echo mime_content_type('mui.jpg')  . "\n";
echo mime_content_type('mui.gif')  . "\n";
echo mime_content_type('mui.png') ;
?>


and I noticed that my PHP's mime_content_type function return 'text/plain' for jpg, gif, png.. file extensions
I examined the content of 'magic.mime' file in three different locations. I did not find anything wrong within these files (all mentioned extensions were attributed correctly). For example for gif files I saw the following:
0 string GIF image/gif
On the otherhand the only occurence for the 'text/plain' was as follow:
0 string ;; text/plain 8bit
I can not imagined how this problem may be resolved. Please help me.

M. Saghaei

[msaghaei]

Dear Alec

I added the following directives to php.ini (picked it from http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.mime-content-type.php):

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[mime_magic]
mime_magic.debug = On
mime_magic.magicfile = "c:\php\extras\magic.mime"


together with

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extension=php_mime_magic.dll
mime_magic.magicfile = path to magic.mime (e.g. /usr/lib/magic.mime)


After restarting linux, this worked. Thank you very much

M. Saghaei