My GD settings:

GD Support  enabled 
GD Version  bundled (2.0.28 compatible) 
FreeType Support  enabled 
FreeType Linkage  with freetype 
FreeType Version  2.2.1 
GIF Read Support  enabled 
GIF Create Support  enabled 
PNG Support  enabled 
WBMP Support  enabled 
XBM Support  enabled 

The error
tell as that in the script of the file mambots/content/plugin_jw_sig/showthumb.php we call an undefined function that is ImageCreateFromJpeg a function called from the GD2 library!

Ok, mail me an s.administrator account to see the problem from the administrator panel!

Thank you!

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I've had the same experiences as these, exactly:

Im using a shared server.  The strange thing is I have multiple sites on this server and on some sites the image gallery works and on some it doesn't.  I install joomla and the image gallery the same way everytime.  It's very weird.  I also recently developed a site on a subdomain of one account and could not get the image gallery to work.  I decided to go ahead and move it live on its own account and when I did that the image gallery worked!  I changed nothing except some settings in the configuration.php to get the site to work in its new location.  I assumed that some file permissions where changed when I was moving the site using ftp and thats what got it to work.  So I compared file permissions of the working image gallery and the non working image gallery and everything is the same.  I have absolutly no idea why this behaves one way on one site and another way on another site.

I am using SiteGround. The essential and simplesolution is to give the directory of plugin_jw_sig a permissions setting of 755 as well as everything in it.

It's has working for several day's and know I get also the messege
Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg() [function.imagecreatefromjpeg]:
I have done what was said change the permission to 755 or 777.
But thats not working. I had asked the hosting of the had GD2 libery and the have.
Any suggestions?

to make SURE permissions are correct, go into your admin backend global configuration and find the tab for file and directory permissions. set them properly there and select the option to update all files/dirs right then automatically.

I'm sure its a permissions fault, check your permissions please, do what dpk says and report back.

hello all.

as you would know I'm here to ask for help in terms of my thumbnails aren't appearing. In IE&, they appear witth the shadowed boxes but with a red 'X' in the middle of it. In FF, the thumbnails don't appear, though the boxes appear. When I click at the thumbnails, the effects and the slideshow works just fine.

I'm currently hosting my site on my own PC and I have tried the permission change and whatever that has to do with it.Neither 755 nor 777 worked, but my current permission is 777. I'm also using Joomla 1.0.12. My SIG is the free version.

Please help...I'm totally stuck.

sorry for the above.

I've solved my own problem. As the plugin suggest, I looked for the GD Image Library and solved it accordingly.

It was only a matter of turning on the php_gd2.dll because by default it's not.

Now my thumbnails are working just fine.

The Solution is pretty simple if I come to think of it.

you have to chmod plugin_jw_sig.php en plugin_jw_sig.xml to 755 in your mambots/content-folder
then chmod the whole plugin_jw_sig-folder to 755 (check "apply changes to folder, subfolder and files") and you'll see that everything is working fine.

This is the solution I used on my siteground-host and it works like a charm.

Old topic I know but this solution was the ticket for me. Solved my siteground issues.
thanks for posting it.
virtualdave

Same issue here.
I have SIG running since 10 months ago and everything was fine, now I have strange issue bugin me.

Sometimes all thumbs works fine, sometimes don't: Just a few thumbs loads and the rest of them just shows the image frame (red cross). When I hit F5, the loaded thumbs changes (the missing ones loads and the others don't), or all thumbs loads fine and after 3 seconds a few of them just broken again.

- running SIG 1.2.1 version
- All SIG plugin files are CHMOD 755, including the folder.
- server have GD2
- All images are .jpg files, sequential names (img01.jpg - img02.jpg - etc..)
- All images files have CHMOD 777
- This site was running by 10 months with no issues. no changes was made since first install (just joomla security issues).

Any help will be very appreciate.

Thank you very very much.

Luciano

Hi i have tryed all of the above and still cannot get my site to show the pictures.

i am running J1.5 and am using the free version of SIG

my site is:

77.92.79.1/~rucuscou/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=3&Itemid=4

with the front page being 77.92.79.1/~rucuscou/joomla

any help would be great

regards

Max

Hi, I was in the same problem as you all!

BUT HERE's the solution:

THE PROBLEM DOES COMES FROM PERMISSIONS, you need to set ALL permissions from showthumb.php and ALL parent folders UP TO your ROOT to 755. That's it.

If you want to check if this is doing well, simply create a php file that executes any echo command like this one at the end, and it should run. If permissions are bad you'll get an 500 error (at least in my server did so).

HAVE LUCK!  ;)

YAY It works, caused a coupple of php errors in other places, but that is now sorted to!

Thankyou

Regards

Max

www.rucus.co.uk

I am having a problem where the thumbnails are displaying to the right of the actual article on the page, but only the icons, not the actual thumbnails.

If I click on the icon, that image will show without a problem.  Is there a way to control the size of it?  It display the picture after clicking on the icon so huge that you have to expand it completely to see t, and if the picture is large enough you won't be able to.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

I have a copy of Joomla 1.5 installed, locally on a Mac using MAMP as the "webserver".

Hi All!

If you try CHMOD permissions and all of you can read at this post, mayby u can try this:

I have one solution for all users was experiment troubles with thumbails. The core of problem was in the GD library installation, for know it, just install a new directory with joomla 1.5.x and install SIG, if your permissions are Ok, and thumbails not appears probably this help to you. For fix this, you need to login as root in your server (or say to your administrator site) and type this:

(from windows yo can use putty.exe and your servr´s IP and Login)

yum install php-gd 

"and/or"

yum install gd-devel

When ask for updates type Y (yes) and the server will download the new updates.

Then, restart server.

For me was the solution.

Sorry for my english ;)

Best regards!