Hi community,the picture upload does not work in the article. To add a picture from the pictures folder (imagse/stories) also does not work.Any ideas?

I have had a problem if the image was larger than approx 1 MB. My php,ini will allow up to 12 MB, I can use JCE to add larger and the Joomla media manager, but K2 will not recognise these images. I get either a white screen or a message telling me that the changes have been saved (which is not actually the case).

What happens when you try to upload?

I get this same message = "Changes to Item saved" on a blue bar above the artikle but no image and no white screen.

Problem is solved. It was a www-run problem.

Hi all,

what is a "www-run problem"? Can you share with the others how did you solve this issue?


Bernd said:Problem is solved. It was a www-run problem.

wwwrun is a preference/user problem on a host. Check your files on your server.

Do you mean wrong chmod on image folder? Still I can't figure it out...

Bernd said:wwwrun is a preference/user problem on a host. Check your files on your server.

Yes and check the files. The files must be your FTP user not wwwrun or nobody.

Ala Makota said:Do you mean wrong chmod on image folder? Still I can't figure it out...
Bernd said:wwwrun is a preference/user problem on a host. Check your files on your server.

The owner of the files is ok, but still not working.
I tried 777, 755, 775 chmod... nothing.

Bernd said:Yes and check the files. The files must be your FTP user not wwwrun or nobody.
Ala Makota said:Do you mean wrong chmod on image folder? Still I can't figure it out... Bernd said:wwwrun is a preference/user problem on a host. Check your files on your server.

Where does K2 save the Category and Item Image Files?

Bernd said:Yes and check the files. The files must be your FTP user not wwwrun or nobody.
Ala Makota said:Do you mean wrong chmod on image folder? Still I can't figure it out... Bernd said:wwwrun is a preference/user problem on a host. Check your files on your server.

root/media/K2/

Pierre Cornelissen said:Where does K2 save the Category and Item Image Files?
Bernd said:Yes and check the files. The files must be your FTP user not wwwrun or nobody. Ala Makota said:Do you mean wrong chmod on image folder? Still I can't figure it out... Bernd said:wwwrun is a preference/user problem on a host. Check your files on your server.

Thanks very much. As stated in another thread, I did found it and set the security to 777 which I think is a bit dangerous. Will look into security settings and set accordingly.

Hey, I have exact the same problem. If I add a picture and save the article it says "Changes to item saved", but then there is no picture there. The picture is .JPG of 600x600 pixels and 40kb (also tried other pictures), so that could not be the problem, also root/media/k2 and all the subfolders are on CHMOD 777 also Group and owner are both set to FTP. I use the latest K2 v2.4.1 and Joomla 1.5.20. Can someone please help me out here?

Similar problem... if i add picture to item, got blank screen after Save/Apply and no image added.

Also using the latest K2 v2.4.1 and Joomla 1.5.20.

For those people having problems with the uploading of files, and have already ruled out a problem with permissions, I have a solution....

The quick fix is to edit /administrator/components/com_k2/lib/class.upload.php. Go to the init() function, and change the following variables from true to false:

$this->mime_fileinfo = false; // MIME detection with Fileinfo PECL extension
$this->mime_file = false; // MIME detection with UNIX file() command
$this->mime_magic = false; // MIME detection with mime_magic (mime_content_type())

You are 'SUPPOSED' to be able to override these settings in the calling script, however, because of a fundamental flaw in the design, it doesn't actually work :^)

I have documented the flaw in another post, but the above should at least get you working!

Nick Texidor said:For those people having problems with the uploading of files, and have already ruled out a problem with permissions, I have a solution....


Let`s try it out :-)

So, did it work? :^)


Gideon Larionov said:
Nick Texidor said:For those people having problems with the uploading of files, and have already ruled out a problem with permissions, I have a solution....


Let`s try it out :-)

Woks fine... now i can fully use this awesome K2 component :-) Thanx

Nick Texidor said:So, did it work? :^)

Since as an admin I upload the images to the folder via cPanel, but have not tried this one; what will happen if an upgrade from K2 arrives - will they have fixed this problem in the meantime?

Considering I found this problem in K2 2.2, and K2 2.4.1 still hasn't fixed it... you'll probably have to update the class.upload.php script again to turn off the MIME checking as I mentioned above.


Pierre Cornelissen said:Since as an admin I upload the images to the folder via cPanel, but have not tried this one; what will happen if an upgrade from K2 arrives - will they have fixed this problem in the meantime?