Problems with Publishing Wizard - Empty Album Name

[kirkjt]

I'm trying to use the xp_publish feature on Coppermine 1.4.3 (just upgraded) on a Windows 2003 Server with Php 5.0.5 and MySQL 4.1.14

When I attempt to use the publishing wizard to create a new album, I get the message Your new album "" was created...notice the blank name.  After that it doesn't work.  When I look at the SQL table, I can see that an album with a blank name was indeed created.  Continuing from there, I get the usual publishing wizard error.

If I create the album via the website then try to publish the picture to that album, I get the standard publishing wizard error message (There was an error...)

If I try to batch add to an existing album, it works, and if I try to use the HTTP upload, it works, so I believe my basic uploading is okay, just something wrong with the publishing wizard.

I can also note that the browsable interface doesn't work on batch add, presumambly because of the path names and the fact I'm on a windows OS...don't know if that's related or not, but maybe it is.

Lastly, the error in xp_publish.log is : Error: Selected album does not exist or you don't have permission to upload in this album(File: : d:\Inetpub\wwwroot\photos\xp_publish.php / Line: : 722)

One more thing, the name of the album contains a slash: "Pickens / Taylor album".  I know slashes have caused some issues with pathnames, but I don't think this would affect this particular problem.

Please let me know how I can fix this or help someone to fix this.

Thanks.

[Joachim Müller]

I suggest posting a link and non-admin test user account with upload privileges.

[kirkjt]

http://24.165.193.188/photos

demo:demo

I was able to verify that the demo user also creates a blank album when trying to upload using the web publishing wizard.

[kirkjt]

Also, I'm using IIS6 on 2003 server.  Outside of the web publishing wizard, everything seems to be working fine.

I *think* I've fixed the problem.  On the Coppermine URL, I was using my domain name which I use externally, www.initials.com/photos which in real life forwards (via the domain name provider) to initials.homelinux.net/photos. (I'm leaving out the real names to protect from bots -- initials = kirkjt)

When I changed the name from the external name to the dyndns name in the config page, the web publishing wizard works.  When I change back to www.initials.com/photos, it quits working.  I'm not sure if this has something to do with authentication because it appears that the page that executes after the publish (xp_publish.php?cmd=CreateAlbum or something similar) uses the full path including the config file rather than using the relative path.

As I think mentioned on a previous post, I switched from Linux to Win2k3 then immediately upgraded to 1.4.2 and now 1.4.3, so I'm not sure if this is a windows problem or a 1.4.x problem.  I'll be glad to test in any way I can, please let me know.

I would prefer to use the www.initials.com/photos address as the address everybody sees as in e-cards and such, but in reality, that doesn't buy me much, but it did work before.

Thanks.

[Joachim Müller]

yeah, the coppermine url setting in the config is very important in many places. Don't enter bullshit or redirection stuff there, but the actual url. Marking as solved