Many thanks, this wasn't clear because there was no 'uploads' directory in the main MW directory. Presumably it doesn't get created unless necessary :-) I created the appropriate directory and moved the images into it. Having gotten past this difficult, the next one is a permissions problem. Here is the command and resulting output: ------------- 172:~/Sites/mediawiki-1.6.5 Ken$ sudo php maintenance/rebuildImages.php --missing <h1><img src='/~Ken/mediawiki-1.6.5/skins/common/images/wiki.png' style='float:left;margin-right:1em' alt=''>ZBrushInfo has a problem</h1><p><strong>Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.</strong></p><p>Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.</p><p><small>(Can't contact the database server: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) (127.0.0.1))</small></p>17 -------------- I've inserted a blank line to make clear the delineation between the input and output. Also note that I tried it both with and without 'sudo', and issued the command from both the main directory and from the 'maintenance' directory. To make it clear, the directory containing the images was maintenance/../uploads I do of course know my name and password for the site (actually it's a test site running on my own machine), but I have no idea where the rebuildImages script would get this information from. There don't seem to be any command-line args. Again, could someone be kind enough to provide suggestions? Your obvious newbie, Ken McDonald Elliott F. Cable wrote:

What he didn't way, for whatever reason: put you're database info in the AdminSettings.php file in the same directory as uploads and maintenance (If you're wiki is in /wiki/ so maintenance is in /wiki/ maintenance/ and uploads are at /wiki/uploads/, try looking at /wiki/ AdminSettings.php). On May 16, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Rob Church wrote: