timthumb is a great little php script that helps create thumbnail images (http://code.google.com/p/timthumb). I’ve used it before, but recently I purchased a wordpress theme that used it, and it wasn’t working.
I would get a 404 error when I tired to access the directly via a url like this:
theDomain.com/wp-content/themes/theTheme/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/moose1.jpg&h=207&w=237&zc=1&q=80
After some digging around in log files on my server I realized the error
SoftException in Application.cpp:610: Directory “/home/usernamehere/public_html/wp-content” is writable by others
My problem had to so with the directory permissions! “writable by others” means that the permission on the directory were set to “777″. I changed the permissions of the directory using chmod to 755, and everything started to work.
Lesson learned, if timthumb.php is not working at giving you 404 errors, check the permission of the directory that contains the php file.
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I also have 404 errors but there is some other cause. I have nothing in my error log and changing the chmod did not fix the issue.
@Joseph – same problem here. I also changed the chmod to 755 and it didn’t fix the issue.
Same issue here, 755 fixed it – thanks!
Thanks, this solved my problem!
Which file i want to change to 0755
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Where is chmod ? (what is chmod
… please help me
Thank-you so much for the advice – much appreciated – changed permissions and presto I have thumbnail images!!!!