Various issues

[RightClick]

Help!! I'm finding some problems setting up EE. Your help would be greatly appreciated:

1. The "Photo Editor" is grayed out and doesn't function.

2. If I use grouping, then the exhibitions cease to show. Also, how do you go on about linking a certain exhibition to a certain group?

3. Although it states that "FTP MODULE IS NOT INSTALLED ON THIS SERVER." and I cannot successfully set up the FTP feature, uploading photos using EE's FTP feature seems to work without a problem. However after going through steps 2-6 and hit the upload button, I reach a blank page (at /input/ftp.php#messages). Checking the FTP messages ( by hitting the explorer's BACK button) shows everything "uploaded" properly. It is as if EE is stopping just before creating the micro/thumbs. Furthermore, checking the micro/thumbs folders reveals they are empty.

4. This is the second installation since the first one started malfunctioning after I tried to update to RC2.

Sorry for bombarding you with questions but I just gave up trying to solve these problems :(

Thank you all :)

[Pekka]

Help!! I'm finding some problems setting up EE. Your help would be greatly appreciated:

1. The "Photo Editor" is grayed out and doesn't function.

Photo editor will activate as soon as the active exhibition has some images.

2. If I use grouping, then the exhibitions cease to show. Also, how do you go on about linking a certain exhibition to a certain group?

Group editor:
select group from left, then select exhibitions from right (crtl-click to select/deselect) and click "SAVE THIS GROUP".

3. Although it states that "FTP MODULE IS NOT INSTALLED ON THIS SERVER." and I cannot successfully set up the FTP feature, uploading photos using EE's FTP feature seems to work without a problem. However after going through steps 2-6 and hit the upload button, I reach a blank page (at /input/ftp.php#messages). Checking the FTP messages ( by hitting the explorer's BACK button) shows everything "uploaded" properly. It is as if EE is stopping just before creating the micro/thumbs. Furthermore, checking the micro/thumbs folders reveals they are empty.

This is PHP timeout problem. You must have the default 30s timeout value for all scripts.

There are two ways to increase max time setting: one is to edit it in php.ini, the other is to add to .htaccess (or htaccess.txt in some servers) line

php_value max_execution_time 360

where 360 is maximum execution time in seconds.

If your server host can not accept either of these, then your only chance is to upload smaller photos, less at one time, use less and smaller sizes (and without watermark) or wait for 1.51 which will should have new code where one improvement is that you'll have a choice to use a method of uploading where one command is done at a time so that php's 30s basic time restriction can be overcome.

[RightClick]

Thank you Pekka for the prompt reply.

I created the .htaccess file but the MAXTIME is still showing 20. No matter what number I use in the .htaccess file, MAXTIME seems to be stuck on 20.

[Pekka]

Thank you Pekka for the prompt reply.

I created the .htaccess file but the MAXTIME is still showing 20. No matter what number I use in the .htaccess file, MAXTIME seems to be stuck on 20.

Better contact your server support and ask them to make it bigger in your virtual server.

[RightClick]

I just contacted my host and unfortunetly, 20 seconds is what they consider to be the suitable time in a shared server environment. :(

Oh well, I can still produce the micro/thumbs manually like I do with EE version 1.22. However, if I do manually upload the photos in the /normal, /thumb, and /microthumb directories, how would they be registered with the DB?

<edit>I think I didn't look hard enough before asking, I can see a "insert photos manually" option, I'll just try that! </edit>

As for exhibition groups, I don't see any problems when I create a group. But once I assign one exhibition to it (out of two total) and check the exhibition index, I get the welcome text with one exhibition showing under an "unsorted exhibitions" heading. If I assign both exhibitions to the same group, I end up with the welcome text and nothing underneath it.

Thank you again for all your help.

[Pekka]

I just contacted my host and unfortunetly, 20 seconds is what they consider to be the suitable time in a shared server environment. :(

Odd. Most server admins work for clients, not against them.

Oh well, I can still produce the micro/thumbs manually like I do with EE version 1.22. However, if I do manually upload the photos in the /normal, /thumb, and /microthumb directories, how would they be registered with the DB?

<edit>I think I didn't look hard enough before asking, I can see a "insert photos manually" option, I'll just try that! </edit>


Manual input in 1.5 is not finished (I'm working on it right now).

BUT: you can get photos inserted "semi-manually": make _very_ small thumbs (with EXIF), and place them on UPLOAD folder as originals. Set very small resize methods (without sharpen or watermarks) and then upload. With this very small thumb you should be able to upload about 5 photos in 20 seconds. Now you can ftp larger photos in old fashion to size paths.

As for exhibition groups, I don't see any problems when I create a group. But once I assign one exhibition to it (out of two total) and check the exhibition index, I get the welcome text with one exhibition showing under an "unsorted exhibitions" heading. If I assign both exhibitions to the same group, I end up with the welcome text and nothing underneath it.

Are you positive that you have selected a group from left pane?

[RightClick]

Odd. Most server admins work for clients, not against them.
I didn't mean to make them sound bad. I've tried many hosts and finally settled with this one. Now I've been with them since 2001 and highly doubt that there's another host out there who can beat them (not pricewise though). I'm not an expert in PHP or Apache, however, I'll easily give my host the benefit of the doubt as to why they will not change the MAXTIME.

Manual input in 1.5 is not finished (I'm working on it right now).

BUT: you can get photos inserted "semi-manually": make _very_ small thumbs (with EXIF), and place them on UPLOAD folder as originals. Set very small resize methods (without sharpen or watermarks) and then upload. With this very small thumb you should be able to upload about 5 photos in 20 seconds. Now you can ftp larger photos in old fashion to size paths.

I think I will give this a try tomorrow with a fresh start ;)



Are you positive that you have selected a group from left pane?
I followed your instructions and clicked on the left pane to select a group then clicked on the right pane to select an exhibition (then clicked again with CTRL to select the 2nd exhibition). I finally hit the SAVE button. But all exhibitions (and groups) disappear in the index (but can still be found under the "latest exhibitions" section underneath news).

Pekka: I'm really glad I'm using such a great gallery and, moreover, having to deal with such a dedicated and helpful person as yourself! Thanks :D

[Cyclist]

I have noticed that if you group exhibitions the group will only appear if at least one exhibition contains photo(s). Otherwise it won't show up.

[RightClick]

I have noticed that if you group exhibitions the group will only appear if at least one exhibition contains photo(s). Otherwise it won't show up.

Ah, this could be it! Thanks Cyclist.

[smeyer]

Manual input in 1.5 is not finished (I'm working on it right now).

BUT: you can get photos inserted "semi-manually": make _very_ small thumbs (with EXIF), and place them on UPLOAD folder as originals. Set very small resize methods (without sharpen or watermarks) and then upload. With this very small thumb you should be able to upload about 5 photos in 20 seconds. Now you can ftp larger photos in old fashion to size paths.

I think I will give this a try tomorrow with a fresh start ;)
This method works great for me (my host considers maxtime=30 to be appropriate ...)