Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to Control Thumbnail Image Path/URL for File: Wiki Markup - Amazon S3 and Heroku Issues

[Benjamin Lees]

Set $wgUseImageResize = false; or adjust $wgThumbnailScriptPath.


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Mike Papper <bod...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, we have a fairly large MediaWiki install and I've been porting it to
> run on Heroku. Part of this has been upgrading from 1.13 to 1.20 and moving
> images from the on-disk /images directory to S3 (the move to use S3 is
> required because Heroku doesn't support a filesystem).
>
> We are using LocalS3Repo extension (modified). Running on Heroku…
>
> When I upload a file it only puts the file on S3. It does not put the file
> in a /thumb/ directory. This seems to be a fact of life right now. But the
> WIKI will generate URLs for images as-if the thumbnail image was also
> uploaded...
>
> For example: if I upload a file called "test_upload1.jpg" I see this file
> on S3:
>
>         http://s3.amazonaws.com/[BUCKET]/images/a/a7/Test_upload1.jpg
>
> Which works with this Wiki Markup:
>
>                 [[File:test-upload1.jpg]]
>
> But if I use the following Wiki Markup:
>
>         [[File:test-upload1.jpg|50px]]
>
> the URL for that IMG tag is :
>
>
> http://s3.amazonaws.com/[BUCKET]/images/thumb/a/a7/Test_upload1.jpg/50px-Test_upload1.jpg
>
> This wont work with my system because the thumbnail isn't generated.
>
> -----------------
> How do I make the Wiki just always use the SAME URL:
>
>
> http://s3.amazonaws.com/[BUCKET]/images/a/a7/Test_upload1.jpg
>
> no matter what size is specified in the File: wiki markup? (I know the IMG
> tag's <width> and <height> will resizes it anyway). I know its performance
> hit.
>
>
> -----------------
> Please note: I dont care that this is wrong, the LocalS3Repo extension is
> horrible and I dont want to spend any more time combing through 1000s of
> lines of code to fix this, I just want images to work.
>
> And also please note: On Heroku the file upload process seems to NOT be
> able to upload the thumb file (like cause were running multiple
> dynos/servers and the request for generating the thumbnail ends up on a
> machine that does not have the image file Or maybe some other reason.
> Either way, thumbnail generation is not going to work?? on a
> multiple-server setup.
>
> Any pointers appreciated. But a pointer tot he code that decides on the
> URL based on the File name would bne great.
>
> --
> Mike Papper
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