[Phpgedview-talk] install issue: thumbnails replaced by generic icon + dir errors

[=James B. <ja...@bi...>]

I'm trying to help a novice get her 4.0.2 install working. Her son set 
things up for her.
It's on a hosted server. The install is in a directory "family", which is 
set up to be a pseudo-server. That is, the address of the site is:
   http://family.pdiamond.com
and that is the value of the "PhpGedView URL" setting in her config file.
The value of the "Index file directory" setting in the config file is blank.

(on my install, the address is: "http://mysite.com/Trees" and the Index 
file directory setting is "/index/")

I'm hampered by not being able to see her directory structure, so far.

She's getting error messages that indicate config or permission problems. 
In the admin page:

ERROR 2: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource
0 Error occurred on in function readdir
1 called from line 54 of file admin.php

Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in 
/home/pdiamon/public_html/family/admin.php on line 54

ERROR 2: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource
0 Error occurred on in function closedir
1 called from line 58 of file admin.php

Warning: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in 
/home/pdiamon/public_html/family/admin.php on line 58

She's able to view and edit the data, but these errors are generated in a 
couple of places, and the media upload/display is buggy.

I've asked her to temporarily set all the folders to full world read/write, 
but I don't think she knows how to do it, I can't view her /includes/ 
directory, for example.

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2nd issue is that all of the images that she's been able to upload 
successfully, show up with the thumbnails replaced by a generic media icon. 
Ideas?


James Birkholz