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Doctor Watson

Joined: 2007-01-08
Posts: 17
Posted: Sat, 2008-03-22 11:59

Gallery URL : m-v-p.net/gallery
Gallery version: 1.6-svn
Apache version: ??
PHP version :PHP v5.2.4
Graphics Toolkit: NetPBM
Operating system: Windows 2000 Pro
Web browser/version (if applicable): Firefox 2

Hi Jens,

As I succeeded in getting 1.6-svn up and working, now I would like to add pictures to it.
Strange again : I can upload as many as I want -tried the different methods - but there are no thumbnails installed for the pictures. Pictures are there, but only with a remark "No thumbnail"
Any idea why this is ?

Happy Easter,

Michel

 
Tim_j
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Posted: Sat, 2008-03-22 12:27

Which version/build did you install exactly?

Jens
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Doctor Watson

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Posted: Sat, 2008-03-22 13:54

gallery-1.6-RC1-svn-b121.tar.gz 17-Mar-2008 16:20 2.3M
from http://jems.de/archive/1.6/?C=M;O=D

Or should it have been this one ?
[ ] _LATEST_IS_1.6-RC1-svn-b121 17-Mar-2008 16:20 2.1M

Programming is like evolution in nature.
Every time you try to make a program more fool-proof, they will evolve into better fools.

 
Doctor Watson

Joined: 2007-01-08
Posts: 17
Posted: Sat, 2008-03-22 14:30

Hello again.

I thought perhaps you want to see for yourself what goes wrong - if it's not good old Murphy screwing things up.
I have created an administrator user for you in the album.
If you send me a personal e-mail address, I will send you the name and password.

 
Tim_j
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Posted: Sat, 2008-03-22 16:35

Hello Michel,

you still say that your server runs on Windows. If i remember correctly your server is a Linux Server?

Please enable debugging and upload a photo via the form method. Post the output here.
I tested on my installation and it works fine with Netpbm.

Jens
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Doctor Watson

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Posted: Sun, 2008-03-23 09:18

I found out what's wrong. Netpbm didn't get installed, nor was ImageMagick.
As I said before, I'm just a simple to mediocre user and I supposed one of those would have been installed when I did set up Gallery. At least the configuration wizard didn't complain, so I thought everything is OK.
I went looking and found them on the Gallery site, but they both seem to be only available for Gallery 2.
Then I looked at "how to install them" and "Holy Smoke !!! " Is that something to impose on an every day user ? It does confirm what I said before : Gallery is only something for advanced users or gurus.
Setting up Gallery is already something, but now it becomes really complicated.
Perhaps one day I may become a guru, but I don't have the time right now to go trough all that stuff one has to read first - and try to understand for that matter.
Still, I do like Gallery and I will try to get it fully working. Only, I would have liked my albums to be online sooner.
I have some hours left today. I'll have another go at it.

Cheers !

Michel

 
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Posted: Sun, 2008-03-23 12:11

Hello,

The config wizard did not complain?! Unbelievable.
You entered a path to Netpbm (e.g. /usr/local/bin), but there is NO Netpbm?
And then the wizard passed okay?

VERY strange. Never seen that before. :-(
And i am not able to reproduce this.

Jens
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