19th Nervous Breakdown...

[Anonymous]

(':cry:')
I'm a complete newbie who knows very very little. And all I want is a photoblog :(

I've just purchased a domain. I now have webspace. Still waiting for the name to propagate.
My server supports PHP and MYSQL
I've created (I think) a MySql database.
I've downloaded the Pixel Post zip.
I've altered the contents of the pixelpost.php as suggested (by the way, do I leave the inverted commas " " in place?).
I've uploaded the content of the zip file (www) which i downloaded into the "public_html" folder of my server in a folder called pixelpost.
(I also set the attributes for the image and the thumbnail directory to 777 - thanks Connie for your direction).
Anyway...
When I try the url: /~fusspre/pixelpost/admin/
all I get is this :

Not Found
The requested URL /~fusspre/pixelpost/admin/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Does anyone have any idea where I'm going wrong?

In my Index of ~fusspre I get the pixelpost folder showing up containing the www folder.

Index of /~fusspre

Name Last modified Size Description

[DIR] Parent Directory 16-Feb-2005 09:30 -
[DIR] _private/ 14-Feb-2005 19:17 -
[DIR] cgi-bin/ 14-Feb-2005 19:17 -
[DIR] images/ 15-Feb-2005 20:06 -
[DIR] pixelpost/ 16-Feb-2005 09:28 -
[TXT] postinfo.html 14-Feb-2005 19:17 2k


But if I open the www folder:

Index of /~fusspre/pixelpost

Name Last modified Size Description

[DIR] Parent Directory 15-Feb-2005 21:43 -
[DIR] www/

I get this:

Error: Access denied for user: 'bob@localhost' (Using password: YES)


Not sure what any of this means, really. Could someone possibly help?

Thanks.
:cry:

[Connie]

Dear Trout,

I see that you are have an URL with ~ in there
we had already the installation that installation at such webspace did not work, the directories were not found etc.

As I understood you, you are waiting for the domain to be activated under the domain-name, until then it is still a temporary situation..

so I would suggest before you will get your 20th breakdown, wait until you have the domain-name working, you can reach your domain by ftp, install in the URL of the domain etc.

everything will be easy and it will work for sure, keep patient! The activation of a domain-name is very fast nowadays...

[Anonymous]

My installation of pixelpost has a ~ in the URL and works just dandy.

[raminia]

error 404 is not related to pixelpost. wait untill your DNS is propagated.
Tip:

1) try to install a local server at your personal machine it is much easier than you think of! Then install pixel post locally and test it. design your template and other stuff. That's too much easier than running pixelpost on the actual website.

I use Abyss http://www.aprelium.com/ for local server and I'm sure there are a bunch of good other stuff out there.

2) be confident that Pixelpost "Works out of the box " :D

[Anonymous]

:( Well my domain name has propagated but I'm still getting this when I try to log into admin:
Not Found
The requested URL /pixdb/admin was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Very frustrating. I can feel my 20th nervous breakdown coming on... :shock:. Can any one help? Please...

[Connie]

well, you should not have nervous breakdowns because this here is for fun, not for stress!!!!

but: 404 means, that the browser can't find the sites

so my suggestion: after you have your domain active, re-install again using FTP to upload your files and connecting to the domain-name with the FTP-program so you are sure you are really there!

then run the install from the browser, starting from your domain

it is always easier to re-start then to try to fix something what is absolutely new or unknown 8)

to avoid problems when re-installing choose another prefix for the database - tables in the pixelpost.php and I promise you it will be working better!

[Anonymous]

so my suggestion: after you have your domain active, re-install again using FTP to upload your files and connecting to the domain-name with the FTP-program so you are sure you are really there!

then run the install from the browser, starting from your domain

it is always easier to re-start then to try to fix something what is absolutely new or unknown Cool

to avoid problems when re-installing choose another prefix for the database - tables in the pixelpost.php

Connie, my domain is now active and I think I've done as you suggested but still no joy. Still getting The requested URL /pixel/admin/ was not found on this server/404 Not Found error .
I must be doing something very wrong somewhere. Can you or anyone talk me through it again? :oops:

[Anonymous]

:D So this is where I am.
I now have Pixel Post installed. Horray! But...
It only loads when I use the url http://www.fusspretty.com/pixelpost/www/ instead of loading on the url http://www.fusspretty.com/.How do I direct my site to open on www.fusspretty.com? As you can see on www.fusspretty.com I only get an Index of. Greatful for any suggestions.
:?

[Connie]

:roll: Trout,

you know what I assume? Funny! funny! funny!

The installation-procedure tells this:

Upload the contents of folder "www" into some directory of your liking.

but you uploaded the folder www into some directory of your liking...

so now it sits one level too deep ;=)

tja, what to do?

the most easy way would be to install it again, right to the directory where you want to have it. For this you must delete the pixelpost-tables in your database (mostly done with PHPAdmin, very easy)

after that reinstall again to the right directory!

if you cannot delete the tables which all start with "pixelpost..", do it the following way:

open pixelpost.php locally in an editor, change here:

$pixelpost_db_prefix = "pixelpost_"; // table prefix, leave as is unless you want to install multiple blogs on the same database

enter another prefix...

$pixelpost_db_prefix = "anotherprefixwhichmightbeok_"; // table prefix, leave as is unless you want to install multiple blogs on the same database

and start the installation procedure again to the right directory!

It must work! It worked already, but in a wrong directory :wink:

[Anonymous]

:? When you say to the right directory which directory would that be??? Do you mean public_html? Or something inside that? :oops:

[Anonymous]

:D Think I've done it. I see now. The contents of the folder not the whole folder. My gawd, Connie I'm so stooopid! Anyway...
In my admin section, at the bottom of the Test image I've just uploaded, it says this:

Warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/fusspre/public_html/www/admin/index.php on line 1183

Warning: chmod(): No such file or directory in /home/fusspre/public_html/www/admin/index.php on line 1185

What does that mean? Is it dangerous? Will I die if I don't get rid of it, etc? 8) [/b]

[Connie]

I will have a look at it, but later, I must go to work :cry:

[Anonymous]

:? I've noticed when I first open my new blog www.fusspretty.com in Firefox the image border widens ridiculously until I reload the url, then it corrects itself.
I've tried my site on someone elses Mac with Firefox and it does the same. The problem doesn't occur in Safari. Not sure how it displays in Explorer on a PC. I'm using a slightly doctored Grey Template by Keoshi. Was wondering if this problem has anything to do with my previous query:

Warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/fusspre/public_html/www/admin/index.php on line 1183

Warning: chmod(): No such file or directory in /home/fusspre/public_html/www/admin/index.php on line 1185

Or maybe not? Can anyone advise?

[Connie]

A presentation problem occurs after the server found the page which he must present, so there is no relation between these two points

my advise:

get the webdeveloper-extension of firefox, open your website in Firefox, validate the CSS from there

it is a problem with the CSS for sure, but: this goes too far for support here, as this can be solved very easily

Firefox brings a lot of support for webdevelopers, you can edit the css online until it is ok, you can validate etc.

[raminia]

Hi Connie
Thanks for the tip! I downloaded the extension and it's amazing.

[Anonymous]

I've noticed when I first open my new blog www.fusspretty.com in Firefox the image border widens ridiculously top and bottom until I reload the url, then it corrects itself.
I've tried my site on someone elses Mac with Firefox and it does the same. The problem doesn't occur in Safari. Not sure how it displays in Explorer on a PC. I'm using a slightly doctored Grey Template by Keoshi.

:( Seems no one on the Firefox forums can help with this one. I've emailed Keoshi but no reply yet. If anyone has had the same problem with this Template and corrected it for Firefox could they let me know how to proceed. I've noticed it's happening on this site too: http://www.thelastpageonthenet.com/pixelpost/
I'm a Firefox fan and love the Grey Template layout. Suppose I'll just have to use something else if I can't sort the problem out.

[Anonymous]

:? I've noticed in view source on my site www.fusspretty.com that there's no DOCTYPE declaration at the beginning of the document. This is also true of another Grey Template used at http://www.thelastpageonthenet.com/pixelpost/ where the same problem occurs. Would this have anything to do with it?

[Connie]

yes, this may have something to do with your problem
if no doctype is given, the browser may go into the "so called quirks mode", he will not interprete all css-attributes etc.

find out about doctypes etc. http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/

good luck