[Typo3] Problems with showpic.php

[Bernhard Kraft]

Andreas Balzer wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a big problem with showpic.php. If i click on a thumb image on my 
> typo3 FE, just a white window opens. There are no contents. If i download 
> showpic.php to my computer, it's just empty and 0 bytes big. Well, someone 
> said me, that this is just a symbolic link to the real file. But where is it 
> situated? Please help me, i really do not know, what i could do.
> 

You have most probably a problem with the setup of your symbolic links ...

If you host your site under Windows you have probably downloaded the .tar.gz. but
this one is for UNIX cause it contains symbolic links (kind of shortcuts under windows
but more powerful because they are "transparent" to the applications in the layer above
the filesystem.

So you should most probably download the .zip package.


If you are on unix most probably the symbolic link doesn't point to the correct file.

type

ls -la

and have a look where the symbolic link of index.php points to ... somewhere in the
same directory there must be the "original" showpic.php script.

type "man ln" under UNIX to get a clue how to set a symbolic link.


greets,
Bernhard