Image Crop Editor Not working

Question

I am having an issue in WordPress admin, where the images are not cropping in WP \"edit image\" for a site I am creating and I do not know what the cause is.

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Answer 1

I was not able to crop images, too. The area, where the cropping should show was just blank, instead I got the error message:

Image crop area preview. Requires mouse interaction.

Now, there was also other suspicous things: the media image library showed no thumbnails. When activating developer mode in the browser, I noticed some resources of Wordpress could not load.

Solution: the access rights to /wp-content were broken, Apache was no longer able to read the files. In my case, recursively changing the access rights of wp-content folder to rwxr-x--- did solve it.