I am *completely new* to Coppermine and a total beginner to PHP, so please bare with me. It's very possible the solution to this is extremely easy, but I'm just that green with the program.
I installed the program just yesterday and had no problems with any of the configurations until I went to upload my images. I uploaded through FTP (permissions set to 777, and yes, I did read all of the upload documentation and troubleshooting and looked through the other trouble topics), but when I click on "Batch add files" and click on "ok", all images come up as red "x"'s. I click on the boxes and the image shows in a small window, but it won't show up in the program. I've tried uploading smaller files, bigger files, and adding files one-by-one in "upload files" but it's the same problem.
I also went through the steps in "upload troubleshooting" to temporarily change my settings to view the debug problems, as well.
The URL to my gallery is: http://www.steven-strait.net/gallery
Test Account created:
Username: test
Password: password
Any suggestions?? Thank you in advance for your time.
~Ellie
Can you provide a deeplink to one of the images you are trying to add with batch add ?
We don't recommend using fantastico to install Coppermine, and this is exactly why. Go into config and switch the resize method to GD2.
I went ahead and changed the resized method to GD2 then went to upload a single file to test. This worked!!! (yea!) Then I tried going to "batch add files" again. It actually showed the thumbs this time of the files (yea!) when selected, but when I selected the album I wanted the files to go into and processed that, it showed the red "x" again. When I clicked on the red "x" it gave me this message: "Unable to create thumbnail or reduced size image."
Ideas? Progress is being made, so I'm thankful!
~Ellie
I just realized the mistake and it now appears to be working! Thank you for your help (I knew it would be simple once I talked to an expert) :)
~Ellie
The whole point of running a support board is that questions and answers remain visible if a question has been resolved. Instead of just posting that you were able to fix your issues you should have posted what you actually did to solve your issues - for the benefit of others.
After switching the resize method to GD2, I double checked every folder inside of my albums folder to make sure the permissions were set to 777. They were not, so once changed, things ran smoothly. I didn't think this would be the problem after checking the permissions on the album folder itself, because on a previous FTP program I used, when I changed the permissions for one folder, it changed the permissions for all folders inside of it at the same time. Here lay my problem, now corrected- thanks!
Thanks for returning and posting your solution.