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I am importing products using the built in CSV import (System - import - products)

All my data is imported fine, but I get an error
"Imported resource (image) could not be downloaded from external resource due to timeout or access permissions in rows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10"

in my css I have written the base_image path as
http://mywebsite.ca/pub/media/import/img/hose/jpg/Ach7938.jpg

as a test I removed my folder structure, edited the csv and tried this and got same problem, same error
http://mywebsite.ca/pub/media/import/Ach7938.jpg

I tried writing file path as so
/pub/media/import/img/hose/jpg/Ach7938.jpg
but it won't let me past the "check data" validator.

I confirmed the permissions on the folders and files is 775

I am using php 5.6, I tried 7 but it broke the whole site in many different ways, so that isn't an option

As a side note, if I run this 20 times in a row, the entire site hangs and import won't work again until I do a full system restore (whats up with that?)

Can I put the images on a different server and link to them that way?

the image path should be something like this in the csv: Ach7938.jpg

M1 would then search for the image file in media/import so I think it would be pub/media/import in M2

You could create a product with an Image and then export the data to get a clue how the value in the csv has to be

I got the error mentioned as "Imported resource (image) could not be downloaded from external resource due to timeout or access permissions" when I used following format of csv file to import image in Magento 2.0.0 version(Windows 10).

The format of csv which I used was as following >>

sku,base_image,errors
WT09-XS-Purple,/pub/media/import/wt09-white_back-test.jpg

and under the File to import section's sub section Images File Directory I used the path as /pub/media/import

I had the image to be imported at pub/media/import location

The problem solved when I used following csv format :

"sku","base_image"
"WT09-XS-Purple","wt09-white_back-test.jpg"

and Images File Directory value as pub/media/import

Issue on Github : https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/2666

Not sure if this has anything to do with your issue as this is an internal import but:

In M2 I have images stored in pub/media/import but would get the same error

1. Imported resource (image) could not be downloaded from external resource due to timeout or access permissions in row(s): 1, 2

I removed the path name from my CSV file and just have the image path as image.jpg with no slashes and it works great now.

i am now working on Magento 2.2.6 / 7

and i faced the same error because directory path mechanism of different operating systems.

lets assume if images are in pub/media/import folder than we should mention the path like that :
1. in Windows (mostly for localhost/development purpose)- /pub/media/import
2. in Ubuntu (mostly for production server)- pub/media/import

here the one extra slash is causing the problem.

If you imported with external image url you can see my hotfix.

I found the problem come from the duplicate path for image after download from external url image.

I also created a pull request for it.

Image path can be or cannot be without / that isn't problem. I've imported with both and it worked. In my case issue was the images given in path wasn't available in folder. I tried it with importing available and not-available image and was getting error in case when that image wasn't available.
Path can be any one ,it isn't must to use pub/media/import only.

For the import images issue i have fixed the issue from Uploader.php file. change below file path code and success working import images.

File path:
magento/vendor/magento/module-catalog-import-export/Model/Import/Uploader.php

Find the below line from line number 201:

$filePath = $this->_directory->getRelativePath($filePath . $fileName);

Replace with:

$filePath = strpos($filePath, $fileName) !== false ?
$filePath:$this->_directory->getRelativePath($filePath . $fileName);

For More information Refer github link:

https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/20761/commits/8612789375b0c173f0ba852c587882af6ff8bc7f

Just fixed the same issue by setting the owner of the images in pub/media/import to the web user.

In var/log/exception.log I found the following

[2019-06-05 21:02:06] main.CRITICAL: File 'pub/media/import/xxxx.jpg' was not found or has read restriction. "exception":"[object] (Magento\Framework\Exception\LocalizedException(code: 0): File 'pub/media/import/xxxx.jpg' was not found or has read restriction. at /opt/bitnami/apps/magento/htdocs/vendor/magento/module-catalog-import-export/Model/Import/Uploader.php:209)" []

Under a Bitnami install the files were uploaded via FTP as the user 'bitnami' but in this install the webuser is 'daemon'

I ran the following to fix all ownerships on a Bitnami install and now it imports the images. Dont run this if your web user is not daemon.

sudo chown -R daemon:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/magento/htdocs && sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 770 ; && sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 660 ; && sudo chmod u+x bin/magento-cli``

Although this solution is for a BItnami install it might help find your issue.