Can't upload photos

[tommykjensen]

I installed V1.5 beta 4, then I installed all the fixpacks and finally V1.5 beta 5 RC 2.

I don't want to use FTP to upload photos since I run my own server and have direct access so I removed all paths for FTP and now I can't upload photos.

Step 1 in the upload process works.

In step 2 I see the uploaded files and can select the relevant files.

In step 3 there are no ftp sites listed obviously because I do not want to setup FTP.

Step 4 & 5 ok

Step 6: when clicking on submit the page refreshes and returns without having uploaded the photos to the album.


Is this problem cause by the fact that I have removed FTP paths? Or are there something else wrong? Permission are ok on the upload folder and the folders where I want to put the photos.

I run windows 2000 with IIS.

[tommykjensen]

Ok, I have come to the conclusion that EE does not work without an FTP server so I installed and configured one.

But how should the "EE Home FTP server" be configured? The manual does not make sense.

My FTP server directory is not contained with the folder structure of the actual website and I will not have it that way.

FTPserver root: x:\ftpserver

WEBserver physical path to EE: x:\webserver\website\ee

WEBserver physical path to folder where normal, thumbs and microthumbs are to be stored: x:\webserver\website\ee\photos
within this folder I have the folders normal, thumb and microthumb



Why this hazle with FTP when it is so much easier to copy the photos directly to the folder x:\webserver\website\ee\photos

Currently FTP is my biggest issue with this otherwise excellent gallery.

[tommykjensen]

When I run the FTP tests all run ok except for one:


CHECK IF EE HOME DIRECTORY: FAILED Reason: ftp_chdir: /outputstyles: No such file or directory.



When can upload without FTP be expected?

[TomKa]

Try to play around with the slashes.

FTP-upload with the ftp engine of EE is prefered, because you can feed EXIF and IPTC tags.
I found that manual uploading is too time consuming when you have to update the descriptions.
A good archive program with excellen IPTC functions is a good starting point to feed the pictures later on to the EEgallery (Imatch works very good).

[tommykjensen]

My point is this. Its fine that FTP support is present but when You have direct access to the webserver via Your internal LAN it is annoying to have to use FTP. I can copy all my images to the UPLOAD folder but I still need a FTP server to transport it from that folder to the target folder. This seems very stupid when everything is local.

Other galleries can do this so why not this one which in other aspects after my initial tests seems to beat the other galleries.

I finally got it to work after 3 hours but not the way I want it. I really hate the fact that I have to point my FTP server directly into the tree structure of my website.

I don't understand what You mean with the EXIF and IPTC tags. They are shown correctly now that I have managed to upload photos.

[Pekka]

My point is this. Its fine that FTP support is present but when You have direct access to the webserver via Your internal LAN it is annoying to have to use FTP. I can copy all my images to the UPLOAD folder but I still need a FTP server to transport it from that folder to the target folder. This seems very stupid when everything is local.

EE is multiserver gallery. Ftp has several advantages like no need to chmod anything, no need to create folders. I'd love to do it with file functions but they are so limited in PHP.

Well, you can always set EE up so that your originals are e.g. 100x100 images with EXIF/IPTC, and you set resize to NONE and then do ftp upload (this will be nearly instant). As EE has now placed all images where needed and created folders for them you can then just copy the real size images over the small ones.

Other galleries can do this so why not this one which in other aspects after my initial tests seems to beat the other galleries.

I'm sure nearly 100% of users run EE on remote server. If there is a common need for having non-ftp (file function based) upload system then I'll do it. But I have on my list dozens of features to be coded which benefit all users equally - they have priority status here.

[wkitty42]

My point is this. Its fine that FTP support is present but when You have direct access to the webserver via Your internal LAN it is annoying to have to use FTP. I can copy all my images to the UPLOAD folder but I still need a FTP server to transport it from that folder to the target folder. This seems very stupid when everything is local.
agreed to a point... when you realize what can and cannot be done with local vs ftp copying of the files and the associated file permissions and the needed manual interventions, you'll find the ftp stuff to be much easier and faster, overall...

Other galleries can do this so why not this one which in other aspects after my initial tests seems to beat the other galleries.
are you forgetting that EE v1.5 is still under active development and not at all ready for public consumption or use? the license of the beta even denies that visitors to your site can use it to view your exhibits...

I finally got it to work after 3 hours but not the way I want it. I really hate the fact that I have to point my FTP server directly into the tree structure of my website.
but you only have to do that for that one account just like setting up the one account in mysql for ee to access and store the data... its no different than setting up for you to be able to edit your web pages and upload them from remote... on the mysql setup, my ee can only access the one database that i created for it and nothing else even though there are maybe twenty or thirty databases all accessed from the same site... each has its own account for access...

i, too, run my own server and copy things directly to it over my internal lan... however, i do also have a ftp server set up so that i can edit my pages from remote and upload them... that's only one reason, in my case... there are times that i'm away for a few weeks and i still have things to handle on the site... it only made sense to set it up...

[smeyer]

Well, you can always set EE up so that your originals are e.g. 100x100 images with EXIF/IPTC, and you set resize to NONE and then do ftp upload (this will be nearly instant). As EE has now placed all images where needed and created folders for them you can then just copy the real size images over the small ones.
I use this method (to avoid php timing out), and it works like a charm!

PS to Tommy: I'm currently working on a Danish language file - It shouldn't take too long before it's finished :)

Venlig hilsen
Steffen

Work in progress: www.mit-fotoalbum.dk

[tommykjensen]

are you forgetting that EE v1.5 is still under active development and not at all ready for public consumption or use? the license of the beta even denies that visitors to your site can use it to view your exhibits...


No I am aware that it is beta.

but you only have to do that for that one account just like setting up the one account in mysql for ee to access and store the data... its no different than setting up for you to be able to edit your web pages and upload them from remote... on the mysql setup, my ee can only access the one database that i created for it and nothing else even though there are maybe twenty or thirty databases all accessed from the same site... each has its own account for access...

I know that.

i, too, run my own server and copy things directly to it over my internal lan... however, i do also have a ftp server set up so that i can edit my pages from remote and upload them... that's only one reason, in my case... there are times that i'm away for a few weeks and i still have things to handle on the site... it only made sense to set it up...

I don't have that requirement and therefor I did not have an FTP server setup. Now I had to in order to use this gallery.

[tommykjensen]

PS to Tommy: I'm currently working on a Danish language file - It shouldn't take too long before it's finished :)

Venlig hilsen
Steffen

Work in progress: www.mit-fotoalbum.dk

Thank You but I like to keep my websites in english ;-) But Morten (the admin) from http://www.digitalfotograferne.dk might very well be interested.

[smeyer]

Thank You but I like to keep my websites in english ;-) But Morten (the admin) from http://www.digitalfotograferne.dk might very well be interested.
The clever part is, that with EE you can have both! :D

I'll keep you posted.

[tommykjensen]

Thank You but I like to keep my websites in english ;-) But Morten (the admin) from http://www.digitalfotograferne.dk might very well be interested.
The clever part is, that with EE you can have both! :D

I'll keep you posted.

I know but it also means more administration if text is added, changed or removed.

[Pekka]

Thank You but I like to keep my websites in english ;-) But Morten (the admin) from http://www.digitalfotograferne.dk might very well be interested.
The clever part is, that with EE you can have both! :D

I'll keep you posted.

I know but it also means more administration if text is added, changed or removed.

Set language lazy and it takes its database data from primary language, only UI is translated.