Hi, I've only just started poking silverstripe about so this probably just a grotesque Noob problem.

First off: I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 with xampp (known as lampp in linux) and I have the silverstripe stuff under htdocs/silverstripe.

I can see the site and have changed the theme OK (currently set to fancypants). Site is visible via http://localhost/silverstripe/
Adding & deleting text, saving/publishing site etc is no problem.

But I cannot seamlessly add an image to the site.

Here is what I do:
I have manually added a jpg (armouredspit.jpg) to directory assets/Uploads. Ready to add to the site.

I have changed all permissions on everything to rw or rwx as appropriate

When I add the image to the editor it gets grabbed and successfully displayed until I hit the save button. When I save the draft the image dissapears. The editor just displays an empty box.

In the editor, I then right click on the empty image box and select "insert/edit image" it displays the path to the missing image as:
"assets/Uploads/_resampled/resizedimage600402-armouredspit.jpg".

Neither that directory or file exist. And I have not intentionally resized the jpg.

I have tried manually creating the _resampled directory but nothing gets written into it.

If I change to path via right click "insert/edit image" to match the actual image location (assets/Uploads/armouredspit.jpg) the image is displayed and saves sucessfully.

This pathing problem also re-occurs if, after fixing the path I then resize the image. The path gets modified to the _resampled path ( I suppose as expected).

I am somewhat stumped by this. Any thoughts/suggestions gratefully received.

p.s. I'm running silverstripe 2.4.2

thanks
Bill