{"id":2210,"date":"2014-06-16T13:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2014-06-16T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T20:59:27","slug":"mediawiki-error-error-creating-thumbnail-unable-to-save-thumbnail-to-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2014\/06\/mediawiki-error-error-creating-thumbnail-unable-to-save-thumbnail-to-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediawiki Error:  &#8220;Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an older Mediawiki installation which, after upgrading to version 1.23.0, I began to see errors like:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The problem turned out to be the temporary folder setting in LocalSettings.php. It was pointing to &#8216;tmp&#8217; under &#8216;images&#8217;, which didn&#8217;t exist. Instead, there was a folder named &#8216;temp&#8217;. The solution was to change:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$wgTmpDirectory     = \"{$wgUploadDirectory}\/tmp\";\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>into:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$wgTmpDirectory     = \"{$wgUploadDirectory}\/temp\";\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an older Mediawiki installation which, after upgrading to version 1.23.0, I began to see errors like: Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination The problem turned out to be the temporary folder setting in LocalSettings.php. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2014\/06\/mediawiki-error-error-creating-thumbnail-unable-to-save-thumbnail-to-destination\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}