image location

akehat

In the past I've used an older version of zenphoto, and the images were all neatly under the albums folder.
I'm now using 1.4 on a different server.
I've tried copying images to the albums folder, but they don't show up.
I've uploaded some images (very slow...), but i can't find them in the directories.
where are the images stored?
Thanks

akehat

just to clarify - I tried uploading images to subfolders under albums/ .

acrylian

Images are still stored in the same place as you used. Did you upload via FTP or backend? If the latter your permissions might be wrong, the images too big for the server upload/POST limits.

akehat

I've uploaded via FTP, and then copied to the correct location with the command line.
The images are not that large.

sbillard

The filesystem based image & album structure has not changed since I have been involved with Zenphoto. Maybe check your installaton file structure and be sure it is what you intended. http://www.zenphoto.org/news/installation-and-upgrading

Just curious: Why did you not just FTP the files to the correct location to start with?

akehat

the images are shared with other sites / programs.
What I've done in the past is created soft links from the zenphoto/albums directory to the real location.
Here it didn't work, so I copied over one directory to try it out. It still didn't work.

acrylian

Zenphoto is not really meant or setup to use images from other sites/servers. So that maybe the problem. Please try to use Zenphoto play as intended to see if at least that works. Maybe try a fresh test install.

akehat

Could it be sue to the fact that the zenphoto is installed in a subdomain / subfolder (shemeshplus.com/photos/)

http://photos.shemeshplus.com/

There is supposed to be 2 additional albums over here, anmely: 'mommy (copied over) & 'daddy' - FTP'ed directly to shemeshplus.com/photos/albums.
Neither of them appear.

acrylian

Yes, especially if using modrewrite. photos.shemesplus.com is completely different address than schemesplus.com/photos as the rewrite base is different.

You also need to check if the albums and also its images are published.

akehat

It definitely worked with my previous host (hostmonster). I'm now with dreamhost.

>You also need to check if the albums and also its images are published.

What do you mean by this?
The files and folders are all 755.
I thought it was supposed to recognize the folders & files once dropped in the albums folder.

akehat

Also - why cant I see the files that I've uploaded via the flash uploader?

e.g. http://photos.shemeshplus.com/friedman/

fretzl

I can see all photo's. Try clearing your browser cache.

acrylian

I can also see four pages of images in the friedman album.

akehat

I wasn't clear;
I see the friedman images in the web browser.
i don't see the actual files that were uploaded to the server.

[naos]$ pwd
/home/akehat/shemeshplus.com/photos
[naos]$ ls -l albums/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 16 akehat pg4693812 4096 2012-03-01 07:37 daddy
drwxr-xr-x 8 akehat pg4693812 4096 2012-02-29 06:28 mommy
[naos]$ ls -l uploaded/
total 0

kagutsuchi

Images are not stored in the `albums` directory directly. I think you will get a better feel for how Zenphoto works with the filesystem if you use this command from the same working directory:

`tree albums | more`

Example output will be something like this (taken from my test server):

`
albums
-- test
|-- Hydrangeas.jpg
-- chibi.gif

1 directory, 2 files
`

acrylian

Additionally "gallery" images are never uploaded to the /uploaded folder (as I saw that in the list). That is used for outside gallery items only (separate upload subtab on the admin if enabled).

akehat

I know that images are not stored directly in the albums folder.
But I would expect to see a 'friedman' sub-folder under the albums folder, as well as a 'test' sub-folder.
Neither exist.

acrylian

Ahm, I can see those two albums "test" and "friedman" on your site. So they must be there and when I access a full iamge the url clearly tells that as well: `http://photos.shemeshplus.com/albums/test/...`

Are you sure your are looking in the right directory?..;-)

akehat

> Are you sure your are looking in the right directory?..;-)

You wouldn't believe it... dreamhost decided to move me to a different server...

This is from the email I got Feb 29:

>This is just a note to let you know that we have moved your account to a new server!

And they left the old one intact too, so I disregarded that email.

So, now that I logged in to the new server, I found 'test' & 'friedman' under albums.
In addition, I've added a soft link to the directory outside of the web root, and now have all (well, almost) of my pictures on the site.

Thank all for your help.

sbillard

Well, I have to admit that this is a new one for me. No wonder you were confused!

Unknown

In the past I've used an older version of zenphoto, and the images were all neatly under the albums folder.
I'm now using 1.4 on a different server.
I've tried copying images to the albums folder, but they don't show up.
I've uploaded some images (very slow...), but i can't find them in the directories.
where are the images stored?
Thanks

acrylian

Images are stored in the /albums folder in the root of your Zenphoto installation as always. If they don't show up and are there they are not published which is the default by upload via FTP.

If uploading via the backend does not work you might have wrong permissions. See your server error logs.