Timthumb: Could not find the internal image you specified

Question

I am having the following issue with this version of Timthum: 2.8.10 (running on Wordpress installation - server Ubuntu):

- When i call images from the server hosting the website i got this error:

A TimThumb error has occured The following error(s) occured:

Could not find the internal image you specified.

Query String : src=http://my-host.it/wp-content/files_mf/1346848579prog_no_pic.png TimThumb version : 2.8.10

If i copy/paste http://my-host.it/wp-content/files_mf/1346848579prog_no_pic.png in the browser i can get the image...

- When i call image from external sites it works fine. I have enabled:

define ('ALLOW_ALL_EXTERNAL_SITES', TRUE);

at line 33.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 06 '13 at 18:27

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For me, the document root wasn't being set correctly, due to my virtual host setup.

I had to add the correct one in timthumb-config.php

define('LOCAL_FILE_BASE_DIRECTORY', "/home/www/mysite/");

answered Mar 06 '13 at 18:27

Steve Robbins

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '14 at 20:39

This two steps worked for me:

Set to true ALLOW_ALL_EXTERNAL_SITES, in line ~33:

if(! defined('ALLOW_ALL_EXTERNAL_SITES') ) define ('ALLOW_ALL_EXTERNAL_SITES', TRUE);

comment line ~212

//$this->src = preg_replace('/https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?' . $this->myHost . '/i', '', $this->src);

Source: https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/issues/detail?id=363#c23

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 18 '12 at 00:37

I just got over this problem which, in my case, had to do with the file path having a tilde in it.

Here's a link the solution I found:

http://elementdesignllc.com/2012/01/how-to-fix-timthumb-using-a-virtual-directory-url-contains-tildes/comment-page-1/#comment-7418

HTH!

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 24 '13 at 22:07

I had the same problem on a Multisite installation of WordPress (3.5.1). The following fixed it:

In functions.php change

function get_image_url($img_src="") {
if($img_src!="") $theImageSrc = $img_src;
else $theImageSrc = wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_thumbnail_id($post_id));
global $blog_id;
if (isset($blog_id) && $blog_id > 0) {
    $imageParts = explode('/files/', $theImageSrc);
    if (isset($imageParts[1])) {
        $theImageSrc = '/blogs.dir/' . $blog_id . '/files/' . $imageParts[1];
    }
}
echo $theImageSrc;

}

to

function get_image_url($img_src="") {
if($img_src!="") $theImageSrc = $img_src;
else $theImageSrc = strstr(wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_thumbnail_id($post_id)), "/wp-content");
global $blog_id;
if (isset($blog_id) && $blog_id > 0) {
    $imageParts = explode('/files/', $theImageSrc);
    if (isset($imageParts[1])) {
        $theImageSrc = '/blogs.dir/' . $blog_id . '/files/' . $imageParts[1];
    }
}
echo $theImageSrc;

}

Note: The only actual modification happens in the 3rd line (bold): $theImageSrc = strstr( wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_thumbnail_id($post_id)) , "/wp-content");

This works but this is really stupid ... why does timthumb need this? — Blackbam, Feb 22 '14 at 19:11

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 05 '12 at 22:33

First let me know are you using WordPress Multisite? If yes then you dont need edit anything in timthumb.php me do like it

This is what I have done to get timthumb to work with multisite. You need to add this code to your theme's functions.php file

<?php function get_image_path($src) {
global $blog_id;
if(isset($blog_id) && $blog_id > 0) {
$imageParts = explode('/files/' , $src);
if(isset($imageParts[1])) {
$src = '/blogs.dir/' . $blog_id . '/files/' . $imageParts[1];
}
}
return $src;
}
?>

And then where the timthumb script is used in the theme, you need to modify to this:

<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/includes/timthumb.php?q=100&w=180&h=200&zc=1&a=t&src=<?php echo get_image_path(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'postImage', true)); ?>" alt="" />

where postImage is the name of the meta field the holds the image URL.

have a nice.

Timthumb: Could not find the internal image you specified

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