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I’ve been trying to set up a dev site on a linux server, but I’ve run into a few major problems.  I’ve managed to install ee v2.1.3, but file manager refuses to list any files I’ve uploaded.  When I attempt to upload a file to one of the directories I’ve created I get the error “The upload path does not appear to be valid.”

Here’s what I know:
-Server path to upload directory: /var/www/img/
-Url to directory: http://.../img/
-Directory exists at that path with 777 permissions
-images in the directory have 644 permissions

The server was configured before it was handed over to me, and I’m not that familiar with linux.  Could this possibly be a server issue?

Not sure if this is important, but the server is running:
-php 5
-MySQL version 5.1.54
-Apache 2
-Ubuntu Linux 11.04
-Webin version 1.550

I’m attaching some screen shots that might give you a better idea of what’s going on.  Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi barrel,

Welcome to the forums 😊

I’ve managed to install ee v2.1.3, but file manager refuses to list any files I’ve uploaded.

To confirm. All your uploading is done via the File Manager?
What build is this, the latest?

Can you give our Server Wizard a run just for piece of mind please

Note we are releasing EE2.2 toady which includes a complete overhaul of the FileManager

Hi John.  Thanks so much for getting back to us!

The build is 20110411.  I ran the server wizard and it seems like everything should be fine (I’m attaching a screen shot with the results).  We generally do all of our content uploading through file manager.  The main problem is that we haven’t been able to connect to images (screen shot 2) when editing entries.  My intuition the whole time has been that my path settings are incorrect.  I’ve messed around with the structure of the path with no luck.

Here’s the path of the index file I copied using an ftp client: sftp://...//var/www/index.php

.htaccess also isn’t working, though I doubt this has anything to do with the file manager problem. Do you know when the update will be up today?

Hi, barrel -

EE 2.2 came out yesterday which totally reworks the file manager; I think that this may be part of the solution for you.  Are you able to give that a spin?  You could do so in a dev environment to be safe.

Looks like the server didn’t have GD installed.  I installed GD, as well as ee 2.2 on a dev site and everything seems to be running smoothly so far.  Thanks for the help!

Woot!  Happy that helped, barrel.  If anything else comes up, please let us know in a new thread.

Thank you.