You've gotten eZ publish successfully installed, but you cannot see any images. Here are some hints to what you should check.

File permissions

eZ publish needs to create files when you upload images and when images are converted. This means that the apache ( webserver ) user needs to have write permissions to the directory var/storage/ and it's sub directories.

Image conversion program

eZ publish can convert images with one of the two programs GD and ImageMagick. Check that these are correctly installed and working. Check your image settings in the configuration file settings/image.ini. (Note that if there is an image.ini.append/.php in /settings/override you have to make changes there instead of the main image.ini!)

[If your ImageMagick was detected by the setup guide, but still won't work, check the Sub-Document.]

Safemode and open_basedir

eZ publish does not work properly under safemode and/or with open_basedir restrictions. These needs to be turned off.

Image classes not available to eZ

If you only see a Link and not the image it could be that you do not have the image display classes.
Copy embed_class_5.tpl and text_linked.tp' from /design/admin/override/templates/content/view to override/templates/content/view/ in Example:

cp /ez/design/admin/override/templates/content/view/* /ez/design/myfiles/override/templates/content/view

Uploading new images

If you have no problems with images from demo design, but you can't upload new images or change existing images in demo design, check first settings in php.ini file. In the part File Uploads ought to be:

file_uploads = On

For more informations about php.ini settings see here.

Incorrect image size for conversion

If you have images in your original and reference directories then the problem could be you image sizes. Ensure you have sizes for both height and width in your site.ini.php file. Without both sizes image convert will fail.

Image Scaling (incl. "ScaleLargerThanOriginal")

There is a setting called "ScaleLargeThanOriginal" (formerly: "ScaleLargerThenOriginal"), which you can set to "false" in order to limit an image variation size to the original size (so the variation will never be larger than the original image).

This setting is only used with ImageMagick's "convert". It is ignored, when you use the PHP-built-in GD for image handling.

Note: When "ScaleLargerThanOriginal" is set to "false", then command line used to call "convert" includes a ">" character (which tells convert "don't enlarge").
For example, the call to convert looks like this:
home/usr/bin/convert -geometry "150x150>" inputfile outputfile
As the > character usually means an output redirection on OS-level, it may cause trouble (read: error) in some situations. Particularly, this will fail, when safe mode is on. But there are other situations known (and not yet solved), where this causes an error, despite safe_mode being off. An error here means, that ezPublish cannot create a reference image and so, no image variation can be created. The original image file is uploaded nicely, but you will not see anything on your website, except, when you use the image-size "original".

GD fails to display image in compiled php

If you have --with-gd try adding --with-jpeg-dir to your configure string.

If you've found a solution to a problem regarding image conversion, please add it to this page.