MediaWiki: All images have disappeared

[adgwiki]

Now this is weird. All my images fail to load including the logo on the main page... The only thing I've changed is now I have a custom address bar icon...but now no images!

[Connie]

Now this is weird. All my images fail to load including the logo on the main page... The only thing I've changed is now I have a custom address bar icon...but now no images!

where is the cristall ball? We cannot read minds...

Give us a URL to find out, otherwise we can only guess and that is not helpful at all

[adgwiki]

I don't understand it but I don't think I need to. There are still no images at our temporary URL:
http://www.siteground145.com/~wiki2/index.php?title=Main_Page

but all images seem to work fine when you type in the real URL:
www.wiki.artdirectors.org
or
wiki.artdirectors.org

[Connie]

I see that there are imagetags created by the wiki like this:

<img src="/%7Ewiki2/images/thumb/4/40/Batmanbegins06.jpg/200px-Batmanbegins06.jpg"

or some with ~ in the image-tag

I am sure that is the reason for it

you should ask support for help to fix this directory-structure-problems

but I do not understand why you did not understand that it is necessary to see th website to find a chance to help?

[Bill]

The reason for you not being able to see the images when using the server IP is that the value in the MediaWiki config for the server url is set to be your domain and not the server ip.

This way the images try to get loaded from a non-existing url and do not load properly.

For more information, you can check the configuration file of your MediaWiki or our Tutorials here:

http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/mediawiki/index.htm

[TerryOBrien]

I'm running in to the same problem.

I just created a Wiki (www.hypnosisinmedia.com) by uploading the MediaWiki files from my development system and running the initialization. However, the logo image and the background images in the CSS file are not showing up. I figure its because of the difference between the file systems and directories but I have not found any information on how to correct it. The explanation given above isn't very helpful and there is nothing in the MediaWiki tutorials that sheds any light on the subject, either.

[Clif]

First I had MediaWiki 1.8.2 uploaded to www.mayasite.org/Miki. Siteground did the installation, but I still had to run a setup routine. As I recall, the setup routine asked me if I wanted users to be able to upload files; I said "no". (I thought of myself as an administrator and did not think this would apply to me, but I guess it does). I can't figure out how to enable file uploads.

So, I had MediaWiki 1.9 installed to www.mayasite.org/Wiki. Siteground did the installation and I was looking forward to doing setup right this time around. However, there was no setup procedure. Everything was done and it appears that file uploads are disabled.

I found a list of configuration statements at the MediaWiki site, but can't figure out how to edit php files. Any suggestions?

[TerryOBrien]

I traced the problem to the hot linking restrictions I had placed (using the control panel) into the .htaccess file. I don't know why they would be restricting access to files on its own server, but once I took the restrictions out, the images started showing up again.

Once I get things settled down, I will re-visit the problem.