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Thumbnails not Generating in Drupal

Posted on July 20, 2015

I used the default Drupal droplet. When I upload an image to a piece of content, the thumbnail is not being generated.



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This question was answered by @kieronbrewer:

First off, a warning. I’m no expert, there may be a better way to do this.

I was having the same issue, but I was able to fix it just now using the following command in the console:

sudo chown www-data -R /var/www/folder

Where “folder” in the line above, is the location of the thumbnails.

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