Server Upgrade caused Path problems

[jimdugan]

Hi folks,
I love pixelpost.
My server recently upgraded, which left me unable to use pixelpost until I figured out that the PATH had changed.

It used to be /u/htdocs/username/pixelpost/images/
It now needs to be /home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/

Figuring that out made it possible to upload photos and modify the database.

However: Thumbnails are no longer being generated. The system is acting as if the thumbnail folder is not writeable but it is. I've checked and re-checked.

I keep wondering if there's a path to the thumbnails folder buried somewhere. But I can't find it in either the PHP or the database.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,
Jim

[Connie]

Jim, I don't understand the directory-structure of your web,

normally we have this structure:

/pixelpost main page
/pixelpost admin
/pixelpost images
/pixelpost thumbnail

if
"/pixelpost images" is now "/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/" where is your thumbnail-directory and where is the main index.php located?

[jimdugan]

Thanks Connie,

Yes, sorry! I miswrote:

It used to be

/u/htdocs/username/pixelpost/images/

It now needs to be

/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/images/

Same would be true for thumbnails:

/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/images/

index.php is at:

/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/index.php

[Connie]

still not so clear:

is there

/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/thumbnails/ ?

[jimdugan]

---is there
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---/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/thumbnails/ ?
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yes,exactly.

/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/images/
/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/admin/
/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/thumbnails/
/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/index.php

And write permissions are correctly set for
/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/thumbnails/

And everything is working except making thumbnails. I also can't regenerate thumbnails from the admin panel. If, for example, I change the thumbnail size and ask it to make all new thumbnails, I get only a partial page as a result and no thumbnails have been changed.

So my question is, I suppose:
How does pixelpost know where the thumbnails folder is? Is there somewhere to put the path to that? I can tell it the path to the images folder in the admin page but there's no mention of the thumbnails folder that I can find.

Thanks so much.
Jim

[Connie]

Jim,

the thumbnails-folder is always in a "fix relation" to the root of the pixelpost-installation.

/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/thumbnails/
/home/users/web/b1413/moo.username/pixelpost/index.php

is ok

but: Pixelpost needs the GD-Lib to "manipulate" the thumbnails and please check whether GD-Lib is installed, you see it in the general-info

have a look at the requirements:

GD-lib required for thumbnailing. Tested and installed on Unix, Linux and Mac OS X.

I think your provider did not only change the paths, he also forgot to install PHP with GD-lib!!!!!! :roll:

[jimdugan]

My Php info file says GD is enabled:'

http://www.jimdugan.com/phpinfo.php

[jimdugan]

And this is in my General Info:

PHP-version 4.3.10

MySQL version 4.0.22-standard-log

GD-lib 1.6.2 or higher

Server software Apache

EXIF Your php does not seem to be compiled with exif-enabled.

[jimdugan]

Oh, and permissions:


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

Thumbnails folder
Thumbnails folder is writable.

[Connie]

well, I just see that GD-lib is a little bit old, mine is 2.015

I remember one time we had a similar situation, GD-lib was there, but did not work, yes I think I found it,

http://www.pixelpost.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=126&highlight=gdlib

here we see that to manipulate JPEGs GD-Lib 1.8 is needed :cry:

this could be the reason
why did they install such an old version as your PHP is quite actual?

[jimdugan]

Yes, it looks like that's the problem. Now I'll try to get them to upgrade GD.

Thanks so much for your help!

Jim