Hi, folks,

My tiny web server was running my dinky little blog just fine until the power went out yesterday morning for about 3 seconds. Since the power came back, I can't get images to display, because the Apache server keeps looking for them in the wrong directory.

The blog is running Wordpress 2.5.1, which is basically all php, and I think I'm running Apache 1.3, but maybe my yum updates have upgraded it, I don't know. Images in the posts are coded with a relative path: "images/myimagename.jpg". The root directory for the blog is /var/www/html, and it's coded that way in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Nothing would be running if that weren't right, correct? So Apache must be reading the .conf file.

However, whenever somebody attempts to read a blog page (including me), the text appears, the sidebars show up, the masthead logo shows up, but the images in the posts don't appear, and the error_log in /var/log/httpd reflects another error, usually this:

"Permission denied: cannot access /images/myimagename.jpg."

So, for some reason Wordpress has decided to try to read the images as though "/" was its root directory.

I can't get anybody at Wordpress to reply to my queries (the sons of bitches) so I'm asking here, 'cause I've been banging my head against this all freakin' day, and I cannot for the life of me find out why wordpress wants to read the images from "/".

Please. I'm begging. I'll freaking PAY MONEY. I need to get this fixed. Please.

Thanks.

The file system may have been corrupted when the power failed. I suggest that you boot a liveCD and run fsck against the partition.

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Steve Stites

...and should this tip from jailbait help you: I'd like to know what filesystem where you using for your server?

Fedora Core 8 on an i386 server. It's an AMD 64-bit motherboard, but I'm running it in 32 bits.

Thanks - but that does say nothing about the filesystem(s) in use there

A few possibilities in order of likelihood:
ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs ...

You would also need to know this if you wanted to follow the advice: to run a filesystem-check to see if that helps your problem go away.

The mount command shows you the partitions, where they are mounted and what filesystem they are using.

Pardon my ignorance, but is there some easy way to get a liveCD? I tried booting off my Fedora Core 8 install disk, but was unable to run fsck from the prompt it gave me. When I try running fsck from the mounted filesystem, I get dire warnings about doing SEVERE damage to the filesystem.

I'll go google "liveCD Fedora" but in the meantime, any suggestions? THanks.

[root@localhost ~]# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)


I very stupidly didn't partition my hard drive like a normal UNIX system when I set this up, so now I'm stuck with one huge-o partition running gust about everything. Dumb, I know. I'll do better next time.