By vagios1988
Hi, I just migrated my Wordpress site to DO. I used an Ubuntu with preconfigured wordpress and transfered my files and my DB to the VPS. So far so good. I have this strange behavior: Filenames with unicode names (greek) do not link properly on website and eventually images do not show on site. Here are the facts:
- ssh into vps and ls shows filenames as ???.jpg
- performing ls | more shows filenames correclty! (So i assume that the original naming was not lost when transferring them)
- checking images from wordpress admin shows them as broken links.(they do not show)
- logging into to phpmyadmin and checking the corresponding tables (postmeta) shows the names in unicode.
- also, uploading one new image with unicode (greek) filename works OK… Any ideas?
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Make sure that everything in your WordPress directory is owned by <code>www-data</code> and is a member of the <code>www-data</code> group; by executing: <br><pre>ls -la /path/to/your/WordPress/installation</pre> <br>If you see <code>root:root</code> sprinkled anywhere in there, remedy it by executing: <br><pre>sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/WordPress/installation</pre>
oops; I forgot to mention: Restart Apache: <br><pre>sudo service apache restart</pre>
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