Beta 327
325 was taken down, 327 is up and fixes many little issues people were having. http://photostack.org/releases/beta-327.zip
Some notes:
- Set the permissions appropriately (777 or 755 depending on your host) on these files: config.main.php, config.users.php, cache (dir), galleries (dir).
- If you aren’t running this release under suexec, you might have difficulties, don’t worry it will all get sorted out for the next release. Thanks for your patience.
- Make sure to edit config.main.php before using PhotoStack.
- An installer script will be written to take care of this and make sure all is good. Until then, beware.
- mod_rewrite support is automatically turned on for this release. to use it move mod_rewrite.htaccess to .htaccess. To turn it off, edit config.main.php and set mod_rewrite to no
- There is no support on this release.
- If you have problems with this release - like say, this release makes your hair turn orange and you pee blood, well it’s not my fault - sorry!
- This is a beta release.
- I’m out of town till Monday. If you send me email, please put something appropriate in the subject line, like [photostack-beta] or something. Thanks.
- THE GD LIBRARY IS NOT SUPPORTED ON THIS BETA BUT WILL BE IN THE FUTURE.
If you are having issues, feel free to comment (just read through the comments, incase someone posted something helpful for you.)
Some people are having problems uploading zips. This is due to how your ZIP is constructed. Currently it must contain ONLY image files - no folders or nested folders. Hopefully in a future beta this won’t be an issue.
Jason McKeeman said,
September 30, 2005 @ 4:03 am
Nice. Really been looking forward to testing out this new release. Thanks for all the hard work getting it out the door.
Cheers!
brant said,
September 30, 2005 @ 8:57 am
is anyone else having problems with uploading files with error such as, ” An error occurred: Could not save file” and ” An error occurred: Could not save gallery info”
I have set everything to 777 to try and see if it were permission based.
Adrian Rinehart-Balfe said,
September 30, 2005 @ 5:31 pm
Mine uploads single files just fine, haven’t tried the multiple zip method yet.
Noah said,
September 30, 2005 @ 6:27 pm
I’m running into some permissions troubles too, I’m assuming due to my host’s setup. When I create a gallery it creates the folder on the server with the owner/group = apache/apache, but the script doesn’t actually run. Does this sound like a safe_mode issue? I know that my host has php safe_mode on…
Jérémie said,
September 30, 2005 @ 9:17 pm
Ahhhhh… I’ll svn it as soon as I can to debug this little fellow…
Dejan V. said,
October 1, 2005 @ 2:26 am
It seems to be something wrong with a JS transition between images. Tried it with Safari and Firefox on the Mac and Firefox on the PC.
Full image loaads for a second, than appears the ‘loading’ screen and finally nice fade-in of the image.
Since this is not really a nice behaviour, is is possible to totally disable the JS transition or somehow fix it?
THANKS AGAIN FOR A GREAT WORK!!!
David Laws said,
October 1, 2005 @ 7:15 am
@ Brant - yes, same problems here - both localhost (Win XAMPP) + remote server.
If I try to create new sub-gallery I get “An error occurred: Could not save gallery info” but the gallery is created.
If I try to upload a single image I get “An error occurred: Could not add image to gallery”. The image is not uploaded.
If I try to upload a zip file of images I get “An error occurred: Some archive contents could not be added”, although most images have loaded OK - just one or two appear missing in Organize. They are also distorted in Organize. However, they all appear OK in the frontend gallery.
With mod_rewrite on I get 404s when trying to view sub-gallery.
Noel, if you want FTP access to bug hunt / test any of this on my server, please email me.
noel said,
October 1, 2005 @ 1:22 pm
Sounds like permissions problems in all the instances above. None of my beta testers have had problems with this on this revision, which makes me confused as to why it is happening at all.
Anyone not able to upload, try this:
- delete the galleries folder, create a new one, and chmod it to 777 (set permissions to world writable/readable)
noel said,
October 1, 2005 @ 1:22 pm
JS on the front-end interface WILL BE NON EXISTANT for the next Beta.
Noah said,
October 1, 2005 @ 1:44 pm
I am having the same exact problems as David Laws, except for the mod_rewrite one. I had my host turn off safe_mode for my account. I realize this is probably a permissions issue, but my galleries and cache folders are set to be 777. does the uid/gid matter for the folder? any ideas?
Andrew said,
October 1, 2005 @ 2:17 pm
Great idea for a useful piece of software. Unfortunately, I too am having difficulties with the permissions. I am unable to create new galleries or upload images. I am hosted on Dreamhost.
Stacey said,
October 1, 2005 @ 11:26 pm
Very excited about Photostack. Unfortunately I’m having the same trouble that Andrew is having. Can’t create new galleries or upload images. I am using Bluehost.
Educational Weblogs said,
October 2, 2005 @ 9:22 pm
PhotoStack: Image Gallery
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kermit said,
October 3, 2005 @ 2:13 am
I too am having problems with the permissions, as David Laws put it.