Newbie: Hmmm...Image files are not showing Up

[MikeinSC]

I have just gotten started and I am kinda of feeling my way around some of the features that are offered through Cpanel. I have a test site in which to practice, so that I can see what items I may want to use. In using Fantastico, I have loaded some software packages, such as wordpress, PHPNuke, OScommerce, etc., just so I could see their capabilities. However, before I load one package I always remove the previous package. What I have noticed now is that when I load new packages, the image files associated with the sites, as well as the admin area of those sites are not appearing. The site loads and installs fine otherwise. The image files are in the file directory, however, they are not appearing on the page. For example, my test area is called www.practicesite.info. I recently uninstalled PHPNuke, in favor of testing Joomla. The Joomla images are not showing up. The same thing happened when I installed PHPNuke as well. Any thoughts why the standard images don't appear? Is this a pathing issue? As a new user I have tried to be cautious and not delete anything according to what the directions state.

Thanks in Advance.

[gtgeorge]

Permissions on the folders need to be set to 755 I believe as all the broken images display a permission issue.

[MikeinSC]

Thanks for the reply George. I changed the permissions...still no luck. Thanks anyhow.

[gtgeorge]

still getting the following for all your images but not on the folders. What are the permissions for the actual images?
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /images/M_images/rss10.gif on this server.

[chaloupe]

Maybe ask support to "chown -R" the images folder if you have check that the image folder have proper permissions settings. I had same problem with Joomla installation and Mambo also. I had to always do a chown -R username.username "mambo directory" because they could not write, read or view their new components or mambots after they uploaded them.

So the code shoud look this in ssh:

chown -R your_username.your_username images

try that!

[MikeinSC]

Okay...I set some permissions on the image files to 755. Still, no luck.

Now, this is strange ....I uninstalled Joomla, then installed Mambo. It worked like a charm. No problem right out of the box. Unlike Chaloupe's experience, Mambo worked fine for me.

Me thinks something is amiss. Sounds Like I need to contact support

[Serra]

chaloupe was correct, the file owner was "nobody", you need to chown the files.