uploading files to different folder

[Michael Daly]

You can leave everything in /images/ or change it to /files/. You can't have both, where pictures are in the images directory and other files are in the files directory. MW is not set up to do that.

All Skizzerz has done is tell you how to change from /images/ to /files/, not to add /files/ in addition to /images/

[Martijn]

OK, just for clarity, I've done the following:

1. renamed the 'images' directory by 'files'

2. added the following to LocalSettings.php:
$wgUploadPath = "/files"
$wgUploadDirectory = "/files"

Then the page turns blank.

Sorry, but I'm not really into this technical stuff. Can anyone just tell me what is wrong here and say what then exactly I have to change in order to save both images and files in the 'files' directory?

[Martijn]

does anyone know the solution to this?

[Michael Daly]

Enable_PHP_error_logging and see what the error is.

[Martijn]

Enable_PHP_error_logging and see what the error is.

I have done so, but I get no error message and the page is still blank, so I have renamed the folder to 'images' again and removed the new lines from the Localsettings.php

[Michael Daly]

In LocalSettings.php, put:

error_log("Start error log");

When you run the wiki, see if the text "Start error log" shows up in the error log you've set up. If not, there's a problem with the error logging. If so, you have an odd error - try enabling exception details - see: Manual:$wgShowExceptionDetails. If there's no regular PHP error, there may be an exception.

If that produces nothing, and you're really desperate, you can try enabling debugging.

[Martijn]

In LocalSettings.php, put:

error_log("Start error log");

When you run the wiki, see if the text "Start error log" shows up in the error log you've set up. If not, there's a problem with the error logging. If so, you have an odd error - try enabling exception details - see: Manual:$wgShowExceptionDetails. If there's no regular PHP error, there may be an exception.

If that produces nothing, and you're really desperate, you can try enabling debugging.

Helps nothing. Page is still blank. Yes, debugging works when I leave the rest normal, but not when I change the images directory into files etc.

So does anyone know another way to change the standard uploading directory into 'files' instead of to 'images'?