Features / Usability

Posted by Animal 04 Jun 2013 22:06 GMT-0000 posts: 30

Rick's workaround is a success. While I continue to be concerned that there's a config error lurking somewhere in my Tiki installation, limiting upload filesize for the database to 2.50MB, I am pleased to have an alternate solution.

As I have found many mentions of this problem on the Internet, but no solutions other than Rick's, I'll share my experience and maybe it will help others.

First, get a little background info from the Tiki Documentation on File Storage. Supplement this with info from Tiki for Smarties on Configuring File Galleries.

Following that guidance...

1) I created a directory in my Tiki main directory called "uploads". Permissions defaulted to 755 and I left them that way.

2) In that directory I created a new text file named ".htaccess", and in that text file I placed a single line of text: "Options All -Indexes" (without the quotes). This prevents web browsers from peering into this directory, and make the Tiki File Gallery the way to access these files.

3) I logged into my Tiki site as admin, and went to Admin Home > File Galleries. There, under the "General Settings" tab, I set Storage to "Store in Directory". That revealed a new field called "Path to store files in the file gallery:", where I entered "uploads/" (sans quotes). Clicked on the Change Preferences button at the bottom to save the changes.

4) After I had saved those changes (not before), I was able to click on that page's button labeled "Move files from database to directory". This successfully moved the few small image files I had already uploaded to the database, and the article/wiki pages that used those photos continued to work.

So far this solution appears fine. I will post again if it creates unforeseen troubles.

Real credit goes to Rick, who made this solution possible for me. As a new Tiki user looking forward to expansion of my Tiki site, I'm a little concerned that Rick appears to be singlehandedly providing forum support and quality documentation (i.e.,Tiki for Smarties) for this software. That makes all Tiki users vulnerable to Rick's continued participation.