Can't generate thumbs, LAMP installation on DigitalOcean

Kirby 2 Solved ✅
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Hi.
I run Kirby on my DigitalOcean LAMP setup and have trouble with the thumb function. It doesn’t generate any thumbs at all. If I do:

<img src="<?php echo thumb($image, array('width' => 272, 'quality' => 90), false) ?>" />

I just get the original image url. I tried the default GD drive and also tried to install ImageMagick and switch the drive to:

c::set('thumbs.driver', 'im');
thumb::$defaults['bin'] = '/usr/bin/convert';

But still no luck. I want to use ImageMagic in the end, but doesn’t understand why the default GD drive doesn’t work either.

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Look for a directory “/thumbs”.

Does it exist and can the webserver write files in this directory?

3

Some times it’s just to simple…
The folder was there but wasn’t writeable for the server… it had the rights 755 which I thought was ok. Now when I tried to set it to 777 it worked. But that doesn’t feel right. Tried 775 but didn’t work. How about security?

4

… depends on the installation, which I never used.

Ask your hoster or wait for hints here…

5

The rights should be set to 755, not 777. I wonder if it’s a problem of ownership, see last post in this thread: Kirby on DigitalOcean LAMP URLS doesn’t work

6

Yes, instead of widening the permissions, please change the owner of the folder:

chown www-data:www-data thumbs
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Thank you all for the help.
I think I need to setup my server a little bit different so I don’t use the root user. I will follow this guide: