Lost - Need your help!

mickoc

Ok, seem to have a similar problem to a lot of people here, my host (mosso.com) is v. strange about server paths so it may be particular to my host but here goes..

Here are the steps i've taken so far..

1. Installed the package to mydomain.com/zp/

2. Setup the db

3. Edited the config file as below

4. Went to mydomain.com/zp/setup.php
and got the dreaded no albums dir cant be found

PS. The package did not include an albums directory am i supposed to create it myself?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Here's my config files:
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zp-config.php
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<?php /* PUT NOTHING BEFORE THIS LINE, not even a line break! */
$conf = array();
define("DEBUG", false);

/** Do not edit above this line. **/
/**********************************/

/////////// zenPHOTO Configuration Variables //////////////////////////////
// After you're done editing this file, load
// http://www.yoursite.com/zenphotodir/zen/setup.php
// to run the setup (of course, replacing the paths where needed).

// NOTE: web_path and server_path are no longer needed! If you're having problems
// with the auto-detected paths, you can override them at the bottom of this file.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Database Information (the most important part!)
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$conf['mysql_user'] = "mydbusername";
$conf['mysql_pass'] = "mydbpwed";
$conf['mysql_host'] = "mydbhost"; // Won't need to change this 90% of the time.
$conf['mysql_database'] = "mydbname";

// If you're sharing the database with other tables, use a prefix to be safe.
$conf['mysql_prefix'] = "";

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// General Gallery Configuration
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// What you want to call your photo gallery.
$conf['gallery_title'] = "BlastBeat Photos";

// If you're in a different time zone from your server, set the offset in hours:
$conf['time_offset'] = 0;

// Tags allowed in comments
$conf['allowed_tags'] = "<i><b>



";

// If you have Apache mod_rewrite, put true here, and you'll get nice cruft-free URLs.
// MAKE SURE TO EDIT THE .htaccess FILE with your path information.
$conf['mod_rewrite'] = false;

// Admin interface username (also required for running setup).
$conf['adminuser'] = "admin";
// This isn't that secure, so don't put anything here you don't want anyone to see...
// (but make sure you change it to something other than 1234...)
$conf['adminpass'] = "blastbeat";

// The email for the admin user. Used to send notification emails.
$conf['admin_email'] = "michael@blastbeat.org";

// If you're running a secure server, change this to 'https' (Most people will leave this alone)
$conf['server_protocol'] = "http";

// The character encoding to use internally. Leave at UTF-8 if you're unsure.
$conf['charset'] = 'UTF-8';

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Image Processing Configuration
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// JPEG Compression quality for all images and thumbnails (respectively):
$conf['image_quality'] = 85;
$conf['thumb_quality'] = 75;

// Default image display width (themes will be able to control this
// to an extent in the future, but for now you may have to adjust it to fit your theme).
$conf['image_size'] = 595;

// If this is set to true, then the longest side of the image will be $image_size.
// Otherwise, the *width* of the image will be $image_size.
$conf['image_use_longest_side'] = true;

// Allow images to be scaled up to the requested size? This could result in loss
// of quality, so it's off by default.
$conf['image_allow_upscale'] = false;

// Default thumbnail size and scale:
// If $thumb_crop is set to true, then the thumbnail will be a centered portion of the image
// with the given width and height after being resized to $thumb_size (by shortest side).
// Otherwise, it will be the full image resized to $thumb_size (by shortest side).
// NOTE: thumb_crop_width and height should always be less than or equal to thumb_size
$conf['thumb_size'] = 100;
$conf['thumb_crop'] = true;
$conf['thumb_crop_width'] = 85;
$conf['thumb_crop_height'] = 85;

// Paging options:
// Control of their display is done in the theme, so you might need to change these
// after switching themes to make it look better.
$conf['albums_per_page'] = 5;
$conf['images_per_page'] = 15;

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Path Overrides
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Uncomment the following two lines ONLY IF YOU'RE HAVING PROBLEMS.
// These allow you to override Zenphoto's detection of the correct paths
// on your server, which might work better on some setups.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

define('WEBPATH', '/zp');
define('SERVERPATH', '/mnt/Target01/324362/www.blastbeat.org/web/content/zp/');

/** Do not edit below this line. **/
/**********************************/

$_zp_conf_vars = $conf;

?>
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.htaccess
*********************************
# htaccess file for zenphoto
# NOTE: Change the RewriteBase below to the absolute path to your zenphoto directory.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

# !!! Change this to the web path (eg: http://www.example.com/photos --> /photos) !!!
RewriteBase /zp/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R,L]

RewriteRule ^admin/?$ zen/admin.php [R,L]

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?album=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?album=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/image/(thumb|[0-9]{1,4})/([^/\\]+)$ zen/i.php?a=$1&i=$3&s=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/image/([^/\\]+)$ albums/$1/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/\\]+)$ index.php?album=$1&image=$2 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

Ilione

Mine had an albums dir... it would be in your zp folder - did you ensure that your ftp software uploaded everything? sometimes mine disconnects and i have to go over again.

Perhaps it's there and you haven't set it writeable (chmod 777) yet? This needs to be done for both the albums and cache folders.

Also regarding your setup url... Don't forget, if your gallery is in zp your setup will be domain-name.com/zp/zen/setup.php

You may not need to use the RewriteBase, I suggest trying to get it working without first.

Hope something there helps

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Ilione

In fact, have only installed the zen directory into a new one called zp?

You need the whole lot in a dir called zp and zen will be a subfolder )

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mickoc

Ok, i've reinstalled, now have the albums and cache dir chmodded to 777.

When i go to mydomain.com/zp/zen/setup.php
I now just get a login box??

Ilione

have you logged in with the username and password from your config? )

Ilione

admin and blastbeat by the looks of things (though you might want to change that now!)

Hope it all works after that )

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mickoc

Sorry me being a dumbass, just copped that i need to enter my username / pwd frm the config file..

Cheers for the help!

Ilione

My pleasure, I suck at the coding stuff but I've installed plenty of times so can always lend a hand on that score hehe )

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