Odd login and customization problems when hosting the galler

phiv
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Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 2
Posted: Thu, 2002-08-15 22:21

Hi all!
I am glad to see the creation of user forums! well done.
I'm experiencing some odd problems since I tried to host my gallery on sourceforge.

I first tried it on my own box (Win ME, Sambar, PHP 4.1.2) to no avail. I was pretty close though, first fixing my session problems, then getting the new netpbm binaries from gnuwin32. Unfortunately, I was still having no luck uploading photos, with an error msg saying something along bad command or file name... unable to read magic number...
I verified that the temp file was actually created, but it seemed that in the process of creating the thumbnail or other, the netpbm libraries were not able to read the temp file just created. Whatever, I decided to move everything to sf.net...

It went relatively well for the install, with no warnings other than jhead, which I really don't care about. Unfortunately, the login is erradic. It only lets me in after one or two attempts (first or first two attempts just reload the basic page). It sounds like a session problem, but since it is hosted on sf, I have no control on the php config. Actually, phpinfo.php seems to have all the prerequisites !?

Once I'm in, I manage to upload pictures for the first time (yeah!!), but that's not the end of my problems. I am unable to change gallery title, description, or properties. The submit button from any of these popups returns a fatal error stating that either the objects are unknown or that the save() function is not known. It looks like the include is not working the way it should. This is extremely odd, because this part was working fine when on my Win ME box. I verified the URL for gallery and albums and they look fine.

So long story.. my questions are the following:
-is it possible to host the gallery on a sf.net account?
- if so, what could be the cause of my problems?
- how would I go about fixing them?
- if there's no hope, any clues on what I can do to make it work on my box (i know win ME is not supported, but I am not using IIS, so maybe there's a chance - those who don't try will never make it work)

Thanks a lot. The specs for the sf hosts are (from their docs):
Linux, Apache, on Intel processors, PHP 4.1.2 (realize the details are lacking :smile:
Netcraft says it is Apache/1.3.26
I am using the latest version of gallery (1.3.1)

I'll be happy to provide any additional information you may need to help me solve my problems. Cheers.
 
bharat
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Joined: 2002-05-21
Posts: 7994
Posted: Thu, 2002-08-15 23:15
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Once I'm in, I manage to upload pictures for the first time (yeah!!), but that's not the end of my problems. I am unable to change gallery title, description, or properties. The submit button from any of these popups returns a fatal error stating that either the objects are unknown or that the save() function is not known. It looks like the include is not working the way it should. This is extremely odd, because this part was working fine when on my Win ME box. I verified the URL for gallery and albums and they look fine.

I haven't tried hosting Gallery on a sf.net site. Which is ironic, since I basically work at sf.net. But I digress; it sounds like Gallery is not loading your album properly so your various functions fail. What's the URL to your Gallery? I can figure some stuff out remotely...

Quote:
- if there's no hope, any clues on what I can do to make it work on my box (i know win ME is not supported, but I am not using IIS, so maybe there's a chance - those who don't try will never make it work)

To be honest, I have no idea what you need to do to get it working on WinME. It's always been an issue with NetPBM though, so you might try the latest NetPBM (10.6) binaries because I hear that that some folks have had success with it.

-Bharat
 
phiv
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Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 2
Posted: Fri, 2002-08-16 01:56

Thanks a lot Mr. Bharat for your fast reply, I see you are answering most of the questions of the questions around here; and are also a moderator and a code contributor, so I thank you for your dedication.

My gallery is hosted at http://bingoware.sf.net/rmc99/gallery

Let me know if you have any problems finding it. I'll gladly give you the admin login info if you so desire.

As for WinME, I got the latest binaries (10.6) from gnuwin32, as I read on the mailing list archives someone has had success with them. As for compiling them, I would not know where to start.
 
bharat
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Joined: 2002-05-21
Posts: 7994
Posted: Tue, 2002-08-20 16:14

Humm. I tried to get Gallery going on your site, but was unable to. It would appear that the session code is not functioning properly on the sf.net website. It's possible that they have disabled it and/or configured it such that it won't work. :sad: sorry.