I have looked at zenphoto.cfg.php and the user, password, host (localhost), database name, prefix and port are all correct

This is a test server, and the prod server has the same configuration, and works just fine.

If I go to the https://xxx.xxxxx.com/zp-core/admin.php in my browser, I get: "A configuration error occurred.

Please return later."

Any suggestions?

Within the pages are links to other pages and images that are not in the albums (either in separate directory at the level of albums or in uploads).

I want to move my site, actually I am not moving it but rather making a copy of my site in order to have a place to test changes before making changes to the public site BUT as I understand the procedure it would be the same as a site move on the same server.

Anyways it all works except that all my links to other pages and all my links to images (non-album images say in uploaded) are broken after the move and run setup.

The page references and image references all seem to be direct references using the root of the previous install.

For example my live site is installed at /live then the reference to an image is /live/uploaded/image.gif

When I copy the site it is located at /cpy but even after running setup the references to the images (and other pages) are still to /live

I do have mod_rewrite enabled and all the menu pages are redirected and work correctly on the new site but not things embedded in the pages.

Do I miss something or is this expected.

A related observation, when using mod_rewrite I can insert links to other pages in the tinyMCE editor as /root/pages/pagename but if I use tinyZenpage to insert the link it uses the longform /root/index.php?p=pages&title=pagename

Am I missing something? I have to manually edit all these references after moving the site?

Is there some sort of shorthand for a relative reference I could use to avoid having to edit every page I have created?

For example a link to be something like ../../uploaded/image.gif and a page could be something like ../../pages/pagename

It says it requires Imagick 6.3.8

Where can I find this (I have searched and none of the websites have anything earlier that 7

For convenience (because my server can't deal with thumbnail generation on the fly) I need a few additional cached thumbnails to be generated by the theme I am using (zpBootstrap).

At the moment I see a bunch of "registered" cached image generation options when I use cache manager including for theme Garland and plugin zenpages (etc).

I'm looking into the zpBootstrap theme code /zpBootstrap-master/themeoptions.php and there appears to be a proper initialization section
if (class_exists('cacheManager')) {
and call to register the sizes
cacheManager::addCacheSize($me, NULL, 1000, 500, 1000, 500, NULL, NULL, NULL, $img_wmk, $img_effect, false);

but I don't see this option when I use the cache manager.

Can you point me to what might be wrong?

(when I fix that I think I can figure out how to add the sizes I want to add)

I want to allow right click on the image and download.

I have tried all combinations of the 2 Options > Images > Full image protection settings and don't notice any difference - nothing happens on right click on image

I can save any of the thumbnails

Thanks

There seems to be a few posts on this in this forum but if all the images are cached I thought it would be ok.

It seems that the ones that fail are always symlinks but not all symlinks fail.

An earlier post mentioned server space , unfortunately I have no tool to administer that nor am I in theory limited by the hosting service.

I will backup all my earlier test versions and delete them to see if this helps, there will surely be no space limitation then but in the meantime I am open to other causes to check.

Thanks

host platform "gets real busy" ??? when caching new photos ?

create a test directory
create an empty database
copy zp1.6.8 to test directory
run setup ../zptest/zp-core/setup.php

setup seems to work fine, db written, license acknowledged, admin user created
logout from admin

login to admin ../zptest/zp-core/admin.php
move site to test mode
View gallery - looks OK empty gallery

Albums > New Album > Our Cars
View gallery - looks OK gallery with empty album
click on album Our Cars - looks OK no photos to display

FTP 35 jpg files to zptst/albums/Our-Cars
View gallery - looks OK gallery with 1 thumbnail displayed
click on album Our Cars - (a random?) 6 images are displayed and the rest are gray blocks and url in browser show circle like the page is waiting or somethig

The page does let me select Admin and go back to the admin page

If I now go back to the View Gallery I am back at the Gallery with 1 album shown and same thumbnail
Clicking on the thumbnail I get the same album with the same few thumbnails displayed and most of the photos gray blocks and the browser url circling like the page is busy.

This all works fine on MAMP so I assume this is some sort of server issue. Unfortunately I only have FTP access to the server and no access to apache or php logs, etc (as far as I know).

I am looking for any clues as to what to ask the webhosting support team for

P.S. after waiting minutes at the album the URL spinning stops and the page has changed from gray blocks to image titles with broken image icons

Clicking on any of the images (ones with thumbnails or with bronken image icon) and no image is displayed only the image title

next and prev navigate through the image titles but no images are ever displayed

accessing the public URL gives fancy upgrade message

Gallery is undergoing an upgrade

Please return later

Now go back to admin and open the site
When I click Apply the URL spinner happens again
https://italiancarclubottawa.ca/zptst/zp-core/utilities/maintenance_mode.php?XSRFToken=2e03bc3ef7a6f14fffd1d1f8cab8e3b936d823b1

After about 2 minutes I get
Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

If I try to go to the admin page
https://italiancarclubottawa.ca/zptst/zp-core/admin.php

I can enter my username and password but it just sits there with the URL spinning

If I go to the public URL
https://italiancarclubottawa.ca/zptst
I get the same fancy site upgrade message - no waiting

It works fine on a live server BUT as you might know I am trying to create the thumbnails on MAMP for a large (website re-install) dump of photos.

I created an album to see if there needed to be an album before being able to configure the sizes but I haven't added any photos to the album.

I do get this error in the debug.log
{19182:Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:46:07 GMT} Zenphoto v1.6.8
WARNING: imagecreatefrompng(): gd-png: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/zpphototst/zp-core/classes/class-graphicsgd.php on line 64
imagecreatefrompng called from graphicsGD->imageGet (class-graphicsgd.php [64])
from cacheImage (functions-image.php [226])
from i.php [152]

Could I be missing something from my MAMP environment / maybe a PHP option enabled ?

I'm using zenphoto since V 1.5.6 and I'm very happy with your work on this project. Many thanks for that. My questions:

1. The downloaded zenphoto packages contains imho the plugins gd_fonts, imagick_fonts, and watermarks in the plugins folder, but after installation on the server, the plugin site_upgrade is also present. Where does this come from?

2. In the procedure described at installation and upgrading, the plugins folder is not updated. Same with moving described in moving and changing existing installations the plugins folder is not moved to the new server. Do the plugins mentioned in question 1. not need to be upgraded or moved? If so, how is this done?

Kind regards, imagepet

I am not aware of a user guide for menu or page but their usage seems obvious BUT

There is a funny interaction between menu and page

1. copy all files from zp1.6.8 download to directory
2. add downloaded zpBootstrap fork to themes directory
3. create empty db with phpMyAdmin
4. run setup and enable page

basic gallery page with Search option shown [no menus]

6. Themes tab > zpBootstrap - activate [All themes (except zpBootstrap) show as deprecated so I am happy to have zpBootstrap which I use for my website anyways]

Home Gallery and Search icon shown as menu items

7. enable menu_manager and zenpage plugins

no change to webpage

5. enable Options > Theme > Use custom menu

Home News Gallery and Search icon shown as menu items

6. Menu tab - these items are pre-populated there and set to active
7. Hide News and it gets hidden
8. create a page (not published)

no change - page not displayed

9. publish it (not added to Menu)

page title is displayed in menu

10. Menu tab > Add Menu Items > Zenpage page select the created page and Apply

page title is displayed twice in menu

11. Page > unpublish the page

it does not appear in the menu at all

12. Page > publish and it appears twice again in the menu
13. Menu > hide the page and it appears once in the menu

I assume if menu_manager plugin is enabled and custom menu is enabled in theme then only those things not hidden in menu should be shown.

Maybe I missed some other option - I will continue checking

I find 1.5.9 will not run at all for me under PHP8.x (I hope this is not a surprise)

When I do an upgrade from 1.5.9 to 1.6.0 (on PHP 7.x) I have lost my menu_manager menu items that were albums.
The albums are still there and all the data (titles, etc) migrated ok but they do not appear in my menu.

I can create a new album and when I try to add the album to my menu it fails with a message on admin panel “update_menu” Cross Site Request Forgery blocked.

In the security log I see
2026-02-16 23:21:57 Cross Site Reference iccoadmin Chuck Storry Blocked update_menu

Unfortunately the migration on the live server went poorly (and the netfirms support team are still looking into it) so I proceeded to check the migrations on MAMP on my MAC (mac mini M4)

I don't want to list too many problems at the same time but I hope this is not an issue with MAMP. I could even only get MAMP 6.9 (free) to work. Later versions gave me more grief (something about needing to call spawn) so I will hope version 6.9 is OK to use and worry about MAMP later (what version do you use? I think I saw version 6.8 in one of your responses).

Is there something I need to configure or disable in order to avoid the XSRF issue?

Thanks

(Side note: I come from a long background of software development, so I was able to work around your install directions not telling the user where to get the software. I used "git clone". But maybe your install instructions should have a download link for others.)

I'm looking for general advice about adding ~30,000 photos to my install. I intend to put them in the /albums/ directory directly. I gather that an "album" should have 1000 to 2000 photos tops. Does that mean a single subdirectory under /albums/ or can I nest them? Currently I have them organized by camera, and some are well over 5,000. If I create /albums/camera-a/yyyy-mm/ directories and split it like that, would that be okay?

How does the import actually work? My test gallery is 28 photos and running a metadata resync after enabling xmpMetadata (with JPEG embedded scan enabled) was pretty slow. Would it be better if I extract xmp to sidecars? I generally prefer embedded to keep metadata from getting separated the image.

I've repurposed an old Dell Optiplex to host this, it's got a decent amount of RAM, but only a 4-core CPU. I intend for it to only be used by me, and I have great flexibility modifying the system, but I'm not keen on having to modify the images.

How can I format the IPTC Keywords field to create multiple keywords?

Thanks

My trouble is the wrong image structure (mod_rewrite is enabled) on the new install (mod_rewrite is enabled)

folders and subfolders are same:
https://mypage.de/28066/

On image stage it is not the same: from: (this is right!)
https://mypageold.de/dimout1/SL/022_DB.jpg

to

https://mypagenew.de/zp-core/full-image.php?a=28066/kb&i=027.jpg&q=75&wmk=!&dsp=protected&check=548f08510c14316c18fe9be6c29e6adfca1721fc

.htacess is the same and mod_rewrite on backend also

Maybe there is a small thing I didn’t recognize and hope you can help me

Big thanks
Thevaeth

I use the same Zenphoto cms for pictures (PC,tablets, smartphones) and VR headsets.
Using a VR headset ? you are redirected in the VR album, with all sub-albums available.
You cannot enter the VR section if you use a Pc/tablet (smartphones are OK in VR with a cheap headset)

Can I alter the search function so that the VR album + sub-albums are excluded from results ?
(no search page in VR section)

Thank you in advance !

The email notifications on new comments are now unreadable, base64 encoded blob, instead of plain ascii text like they used to, whenever someone posts a new comment.

Any ideas, whats causing the slow performance when viewing the (uncached) pages without a logged in user? Can it be connected with the options table somehow?

I have videos and they guests need to see the name of the file before clicking on it.

Thanks in advance

Kriss

I have just installed this again and trying it as Gemini said you were good but when I look at all the themes that come with it they says that are being depreciated. I then go to themes list and getting very confused with which ones I can use.

Can you tell me which ones I can use?

Thanks in advance

Kriss

Omitted fields like Title or Company of the form are still displayed although they are set to "omitted" in the plugin options.

Also discovered that I cannot change the options of the contact_form plugin in the admin panel. If I make changes the changes are not saved.

During the upgrade I also got the following warning:

Warning: the zp_options table appears not to have a proper UNIQUE key. There are probably duplicate entries in the table which can cause unpredictable behavior. This can normally be corrected by creating a Zenphoto backup, dropping the table, running setup to restore the table, and then restoring from the backup. Note, however, that the duplicate entries will be lost.

Although the table has id set as the primary key.

Any ideas?

For 13 out of 14 Admins this works fine. For the final one, ZP appears to create a superfluous template called "Comment Manage" (note the missing last letter) and puts them in that one. If you remove them from there and put them back in "Comment Manager" (group) then within ten minutes they are back in the template...

I've deleted the template using ZP Back End; within ten minutes it's back again! I've gone into PHP MySQL directly and found "users" called 'Comment Manager' and 'Comment Manage' but have not yet plucked up the courage to delete the latter.

Any suggestions?

Am I missing something when I deleted the installation files? Are there hidden files that are not readily evident? The tech support at GoDaddy is of no help in trying to resolve the issue. Their advice is to reinstall the software, but that didn't work either.

Any assistance will be appreciated.

It's been 12 years since updated, but it IS there so I wanted to make that known.

Sorry if this is the wrong place for it, but the "contact" made it seem like it should only be used for errors with the actual Zenphoto

TIA
-Ben

Still in process of finding out why our system slows down badly from time to time.

My support has pointed out that a number of slow MySQL queries are reported, eg:

use graveseggsa_dbnatal;
SELECT EXIFOrientation
FROM graves_images AS i
JOIN graves_albums AS a ON i.albumid = a.id
WHERE 'PIETERMARITZBURG-Urban/Mountain-Rise/H-Surnames/IMG_9819.jpeg' = CONCAT(a.folder,'/',i.filename);

Query_time: 34.45s Rows_examined: 452425

would I be right in thinking the above was part of the process of changing orientation of an image?

our reason to change the image orientation is that, having imported the data from an old Menalto Gallery database, many of the images are wrongly orientated and need re-orientation.

the Natal database (graveseggsa_dbnatal) has 8,129 albums
and approx 112,000 images

Question 1: why so many rows? (Rows_examined: 452425)
Question 2: would creating an index on images orientation speed things up, do you think?

Thank you,
Richard

Very, very, very minor observation, but the email response to Admins when a comment is submitted is slightly inconsistent. ZP Version 1.6.8

zp-extensions/comment_form/functions.php around line 435/436: -
"View all comments ... http:// $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']..."
"Edit the comment ... PROTOCOL:// $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']..."

I presume http in the former should be as in the later - not a major issue, as a well configured server should immediately enforce "er no, I think you meant HTTPS", but...