I can't add an avatar to my account.
I can change my email address and access a lot of other information, but in the "avatar" section, there's nothing to upload an image! I get a red message saying there's no image!

Same problem with "Attachments"

I use Zenphoto mainly for managing photo albums, but recently I've started adding short video previews to some galleries.

The videos themselves are edited outside Zenphoto using CapCut for mac, and I generate thumbnail images before uploading everything to my server.

I'm trying to find the cleanest way to organize these files so that:

The thumbnail image appears as the gallery preview
The original video remains available for download or viewing
Metadata and descriptions stay linked correctly
Future uploads remain easy to manage

At the moment I'm manually creating albums and uploading the thumbnails and videos separately, but I'm wondering if there is a recommended workflow or plugin for this type of media organization.

How are other Zenphoto users handling mixed photo/video galleries?

Thanks for any suggestions.

From time to time, my website host changes the MySQL version.
I have to rerun the setup.

After redoing the setup and putting the site back online, some of my VR album titles were replaced by
"charset = Ascii {"info":{"gyro_stabilized":true,"initial_view_changed":fal "
Some images keep their titles.

The involved album contains copies of images from other albums (for pc or smartphones)
I would like to understand why and how to prevent this in the future.

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

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