First off Thank you for putting so much time into something that you are giving away for free!
I've set up zen-photo at the following location
http://www.vtbeach.com/condo-photos/I have a wordpress blog at this location
http://www.condosrehobothbeach.com/condo-info/I've got as far as activating the plugin and seeing the ZP icon in wordpress but the following is the error code I get when I click the icon.
I am not a programmer and seem to be having some problems that the following error code may be able to assist me in finding a solution.
The Zen photo site is on a godaddy site and I quite honestly don't know what the full path to the server is. Is there an easy way to find out?
Thank you in advance!!!! If you are looking for donations I am happy to send some $$ for a solution.
Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/vtbeach.com/condo-photos/zen/zp-config.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/condosrehobothbeach.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/condosrehobothbeach.com/httpdocs/condo-info/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/zenpress/popup_zp.php on line 54
Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/vtbeach.com/condo-photos/zen/config.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/condosrehobothbeach.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/condosrehobothbeach.com/httpdocs/condo-info/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/zenpress/popup_zp.php on line 57
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You need to set the base path which (according to your post) should be :
http://www.vtbeach.com/condo-photos/
and your Zenphoto admin path which (according to your post) should be :
/var/www/vhosts/vtbeach.com/condo-photos/zen/
now those are simply guesses.. I may or may not be right
One concern of mine for you is you are working off of 2 seperate domain names. Not sure if they are on 2 seperate servers or what the configuration is but definately check your paths under wordpress->options->zenpress
to be more certian about your paths.. stuff a phpinfo(); into blank page and upload it to your server and check for your actual paths
http://vtbeach.com/path.php
Can someone smarter than myself tell me what my path should be?
is it .:/usr/local/lib/php
or
/home/content/o/c/e/oceanatlantic/html
or
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
??? As i said I'm not a programmer and I'm a little lost. I've been working on this all day with very slow progress. I had a lot quicker luck with wordpress and zen-photo than I am having with this. It's probable something very simple.
if (!file_exists($zp_admin_path.'/zp-config.php')) {
$zp_eh->addWarning(__('File zp-config.php not found. Looking for config.php','zenpress'));
// Support for past Zenphoto versions
if (!file_exists($zp_admin_path.'/config.php')) {
$zp_eh->addFatal(__('Cannot find Zenphoto configuration file.','zenpress'));
You cannot grab the zp-config.php from a remote system and use its information. That would be a pretty big security hole. Cause if you could then I could and everyone else.. catch my drift..
Without having the ability to test this I would say you cannot do that.. but maybe someone can confirm...
I was going to use the godaddy server as an image server because bandwidth there costs me less, but if I have to I guess I'll stick it on my rackspace server. I plan on hosting hundreds of photos.
There are however plugins that will display flickr. com images on wordpress and i was originally thinking I could do the same with zen.
There are indeed plugins for zenphoto as well. Zenpress is a plugin that allows you to add photos in your posts through wordpress from your zenphoto gallery. I use it myself at http://www.bushwoodworking.com. Zenpress is made by a nice guy named Simbul (who sometimes lurks here from time to time) and is located here: http://simbul.bzaar.net/zenpress/
There is also a zenshow plugin, which allows you to display a specified number of images, or albums, or even random images from your gallery. It is also used at my link above for the random header image I show (I customized the sizing a bit myself to fit the theme). Zenshow is usually located here: http://www.ruicruz.com/zenshow/ but the site is off (down) right now (not sure why). I can send you a copy of the latest version if you want, please email me at craig (at) thinkdreams.com.
If you are planning on having lots of traffic, a local install would be best anyway, as -theoretically- what happens if one ISP is down, and people cannot get to the other system. For example, your wordpress blog running on rackspace, has a zenshow or zenpress plugin installed, but your goDaddy account is down. Then, neither you nor your internet customers will be able to access pictures.
I'm coming from a network administration standpoint and it's a good practice to always want to make sure you have your resources in the same spot for both security and performance reasons.
This is just a suggestion, I would "pilot" or test the solution first using a demo database setup, and see what your results are.