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Lowlander

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Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 3

Error 500 using ImageManager

I an getting this error when opening ImageManager:
[Tue Oct 24 12:08:41 2006] [error] [client xx.xxx.xx.xx] mod_security: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "\\.\\./\\.\\./" at REQUEST_URI [id "300004"] [rev "2"] [msg "Generic Path Recursion denied"] [severity "CRITICAL"] [hostname "www.xxxx.nl"]

koto

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Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 58

Re: Error 500 using ImageManager

The server (Apache?) is mis-configured. One of it's modules (mod_security) does not allow requests in a certain format (matching the pattern specified in the error message). You should forward this message to server administrator and ask him to reconfigure mod_security settings.

Or, maybe you have defined the path to your images using parent directory construct ('../') - you cannot do this - images_url setting must be a valid URL (absolute or relative).

I had a similar problem once:

some badly configured hosts forbid access to URLs with"..%2F..%2F" string, even in query string.

I had to change images_dir setting to represent full absolute directory to images. I used PHP realpath() function to do this like this:

$IMConfig['images_dir'] = realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../{CONFIG product_pictures_dir}/user') . '/';

Lowlander

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Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 3

Re: Error 500 using ImageManager

Or, maybe you have defined the path to your images using parent directory construct ('../') - you cannot do this - images_url setting must be a valid URL (absolute or relative).

Probably this was the problem, but it's academic now as I have replaced ImageManager by ExtendedFileManager, which works perfectly.

Thanks

Last edited by Lowlander (2006-10-25 02:50:17)

koto

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Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 58

Re: Error 500 using ImageManager

That's even more surprising as EFM and IM basically share the same code for the issue described Glad to hear it though