[TYPO3] [Typo3] Problems with showpic.php

[Alex Heizer]

Hi Andreas,

Even if you are on XP, if the target server for T3 is Linux, you need 
the tar.gz file with the symlinks. Otherwise, open the zip file on your 
computer, and everything that is symlinked, just make a copy into the 
root public_html directory (index.php, showpic.php, the 
typo3/typo3conf/t3lib/tslib directories), then upload them to the 
server. Without a hosting company that allows shell access or offers T3 
preinstalled, this can be a little more work to upgrade to new versions, 
but it should work if you just have all the files and directories within 
the main docroot, rather than symlinked (although there may still be a 
directory or two that needs a symlink, in which case, ask your hosting 
provider once all the files are there. They may be able to just make a 
symlink or two for you).

Alex


Andreas Balzer wrote:

>Hi!
>There are a few problems..
>First of all, i tried this "download it again and upload it" method 
>allready.. Didn't work for me.. The next thing.. My typo3 installation came 
>from the zip file (downloaded it to windows xp) and uploaded it to a linux 
>sever. The file wasn't opened before...
>
>Well, i do not have a access to the command tools at the server, so i have 
>just ftp access.. Is there any method to get it to work?
>
>Thanks so far.
>Andreas Balzer
>
>"Bernhard Kraft" <kraftb at kraftb.at> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
>news:mailman.1.1134837528.9140.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
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>
>>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 
>>    
>>
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