Timthumb: Could not find the internal image you specified

5 comments

1. 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/");
   

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2. 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);

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

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3. 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!

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4. 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”);

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5. 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.

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