need help with uploading first image

[Anonymous]

hi everyone,

i installed pixelpost and keep trying to upload my first image with no success - i click on "upload" and the admin screen refreshes with none of the info that i input, and when i go to check the home page it still says "coming soon!"

i have double and triple checked my image path and can't find fault with it - i am using unix and the path is exactly the same as if i were to ftp to it - /home/domainname/www/pixelpost/images

the permissions are all set correctly and i am using the minimal requirements for pixelpost:

Host information
PHP-version 4.3.2

MySQL version 4.0.21-standard

GD-lib 2.0 or higher

Server software Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510

EXIF Your php was compiled with exif-enabled. This means you can add additional exif-information to your images such as camera model, aperture, exposure time and more.
There are certain tags to add to your templates for this. Check pixelpost homepage to learn more.

Permissions
Images folder
Images folder is writable, which is a good thing.

Thumbnails folder
Thumbnails folder is writable.

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i read through the other support forums and it seems like everyone else's quick fixes to this problem didn't apply to me. i even tried it in ie (i use firefox normally) to make sure it wasn't a browser compatibility issue with the upload button, but no such luck.

any ideas?

thanks!

[Anonymous]

if i upload everything in a directory to the pixelpost db and then re-generate thumbnails then it works. i am just not able to upload one image at a time from my hard drive.

still would love to hear if anyone knows why.

thanks!

[Connie]

ellea,

I remember that we had a similar situation once.

The reason was not that the script was faulty, the reason was that the script copies the file when uploading to a temporary place and then moved it into the images-directory

the limitation came because the hoster did not allow scripts to move files from one directory to another...

maybe that is the same reason? You should ask the support of your hoster for information about the limitation for scripts ....

[Anonymous]

i will talk to the host and see what they say. i was really racking my brain as to what could be going on as everything that i could see what as it should be.

thanks for the tip!

[ellea]

hi there,

i have since contacted my host who say that they do allow scripts to move files from directory to directory. i still am unable to have images post through the regular upload page on the web interface, and i am now unable to get the thumbnails to be generated - i have to make my own and upload them via ftp using the naming convention.

any idea now what could be causing this?

thanks!

[raminia]

do you have a linux/unix server? or windows nt?

[ellea]

hi there,

it's definitely unix. is that a problem? i'd be bummed if it is as i finally got all my pages coded the way i wanted them to be for pixelpost - it's just this pesky image upload problem...

thanks again!

[raminia]

no problem with unix or windows just different solutions.

do you miss the tailing slash?
change
/home/domainname/www/pixelpost/images
to
/home/domainname/www/pixelpost/images/

[ellea]

didn't have a tailing slash on it so i added it, tried it again a couple of times and no such luck.

any other ideas?

thanks!

[raminia]

I have no idea right now.

I could try to figure out your problem but if you give me your user and other stuff to admin panel and ftp address of you site. It's up to you:)

[ellea]

hmmm...makes me a wee bit nervous to hand all that over, but i will expect i'll be desperate enough to do so in the next few days if nothing else comes up.

if i decide i can't take it anymore, what's the best way to contact you off the board - private message?

meanwhile, if anyone has any other suggestions or has encountered this as well, please let me know.

so just to reiterate - uploading via copy_folder.php works. uploading a new image on the "new image" page of the admin doesn't generate any error messages, but also doesn't generate an upload of an image. regenerating thumbnails used to work, now doesn't - now i have to create them myself in photoshop and upload them using the correct naming format into the thumbnails folder.

thanks yet again!

[raminia]

hmmm...makes me a wee bit nervous to hand all that over, but i will expect i'll be desperate enough to do so in the next few days if nothing else comes up.

if i decide i can't take it anymore, what's the best way to contact you off the board - private message?

meanwhile, if anyone has any other suggestions or has encountered this as well, please let me know.

so just to reiterate - uploading via copy_folder.php works. uploading a new image on the "new image" page of the admin doesn't generate any error messages, but also doesn't generate an upload of an image. regenerating thumbnails used to work, now doesn't - now i have to create them myself in photoshop and upload them using the correct naming format into the thumbnails folder.

thanks yet again!
yes surely private message! 8) - you can email me at Yahoo with my id as raminia

tip: start over and this time make a check list and check everygthing step by step.