phpThumb - path problems with images outside same folder

[3stripe]

hey folks,

i'm having some problems with phpThumb on a php4.3/apache2 setup.

it works ok if the image is in the same folder as the script (which won't happen in real life of course)

if I try to load an image from elsewhere, i get this error:

phpThumb() v.1.7.0.200602150817
"" does not exist

Can anyone help me fix this?

It's obviously a path problem but there seems to be a myriad of solutions which I can't get to work... eg I've tried specifiying relative and absolute urls but this doesn't help.

[perrohunter]

u probbly need to change the dir CHMOD to 777 , i usually get that error handling files , CHMOD to every dir involved ,even where phpThumb resides