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Image Uploading Failed
Trying to upload an image, I'm getting a "Could not open lock file for "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/5/5e". Make sure your upload directory is configured correctly and your web server has permission to write to that directory. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgUploadDirectory for more information." error when I hadn't before. Looking up this error gives me instructions for a bunch of complicated file setting terminal stuff or whatnot that I've never touched and can't find the settings for. Any advice for, like... even the first page to look on in settings to fix this?

also, some images are failing to load on the wiki. could be connected? is my internet just having a moment? Chantolove (talk) 04:10, 4 October 2022 (UTC)


 * If MediaWiki asks you to do something in the terminal, always ignore it, those instructions are never meant for users. Regarding images, one of our file servers broke and is in read-only mode at the moment meaning images can be read but not written/uploaded (which prompted, as you may have noticed earlier, widespread downtime due to this server hanging all the connections). We're working at this moment to fix that. Sorry for the issues! Agent Isai  Talk to me! 04:13, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for letting me know! I'm glad I didn't accidentally break anything haha. Chantolove (talk) 04:32, 4 October 2022 (UTC)