Webtrees is a fork of PhpGedView, an excellent genealogy program. It ha a big problem: uploading and setting multimedial files.
It’s often a terrible waste of time: a very complicated way to upload files.
workaround
- You can try to upload images (if you work in localhost and you know what you are doing) in this way:
- 1. symlink an image to /media folder in /data webtrees folder.
- 2. add that image file in phpmyadmin (your webtrees db) “media” and “media_file” tables (you have to set a number, such as X110).
3. add to “individuals” the id of that file, with a code like “1 OBJE @X110@” at the bottom of the fieldi_gedcom. - 4. Now, in webtrees grafical view you has now to (pretend to) modify (nothing modifying, in fact) and save this modification.
- 5. You could have also to save the modification date (saving the proposed one).
caveat
- a. The file symlinked must have rights permissions (owner rw, group and others only r).
- b. no avif: only jpg or webp are allowed.
You should now see the expected image within the page of that individual