EXIF data missing

[photovernacular]

Hi,

I seem to have a problem with extracting EXIF data from images that I am posting at my (new) photoblog (see URL below). I've read various other threads on this forum and have tested the exifer1_5 program using the suggestions offered by others (using index.php in the exifer1_5 directory), and this shows the EXIF data to be missing from the images. I have a development build of the site running on my local machine, and I can post images using this and the EXIF data is retained. When I post to my live site, EXIF data seems to mysteriously disappear...maybe in the upload process...?

Has anyone else come across this or similar problems before? I'm running 1.4.3 on a Linux host with PHP 4.4.1.

Thanks for any help!

-Tim

http://photovernacular.net/

[GeoS]

Your images dont have EXIF data!!

At upload process there isnt any modyfication of images. Check if you really uploading photos with EXIF data inside of them!!

[photovernacular]

Yeah, one of my first thoughts was that something must have happened to the images before I uploaded them. But on my local dev install of pixelpost I can upload an image that clearly has EXIF data present and when I check the created image in the pixelpost/images/ directory, the EXIF data is missing.

I hear what you're saying about the upload process itself not altering the image, but something screwy must be happening somewhere for this difference in the two images.

I wondered if anyone could think of any possible MIME type settings that might be needed in the webserver config...? I'm clutching at straws a bit here :)

Thanks for any further suggestions.

http://photovernacular.net

[photovernacular]

I finally figured out the problem. At some point (sadly, I don't remember doing this at all! :confused:) I must have installed utok's resize hack into the admin index.php. I did this before the thread went on to discuss missing EXIF problems!

I've rolled back to the original 1.4.3 release admin index.php and EXIF data is available again...YAY! :)

http://photovernacular.net/

[GeoS]

Dev team is glad that all is OK right now ;)

[e300]

slightly off topic, but there are great tools available to copy exif data from 1 file to another - search for jhead -- now, if this was included with the resize addon, exif would not be lost!