Urgently need help on uploading pictures ! Plz i'm new to coppermine....

[Bates]

Hello all,


I installed coppermine for the first time yesterday but when trying to upload pictures i get the following error:

Failed to create directory albums/userpics/10001 !

File: /home/djdave/public_html/eurospotters/db_input.php - Line: 228



Warning: mkdir(albums/userpics/10001): Permission denied in /home/djdave/public_html/eurospotters/db_input.php on line 227

The debug info is as follows:

USER:
------------------
Array
(
    [ID] => f91d2be1198ce0ab845c1f57830d81da
    [am] => 1
    [lap] => 1
)

==========================
USER DATA:
------------------
Array
(
    [user_id] => 1
    [user_group] => 1
    [user_active] => YES
    [user_name] => THA118
    [user_password] => ********
    [user_lastvisit] => 2005-12-06 09:16:24
    [user_regdate] => 2005-12-05 20:05:15
    [user_group_list] =>
    [user_email] =>
    [user_website] => www.eurospotters.be
    [user_location] => Ostend - Chiang Mai (CNX)
    [user_interests] => Aviation
    [user_occupation] => IT manager
    [user_actkey] =>
    [disk_max] => 1024
    [disk_min] => 1024
    [can_rate_pictures] => 1
    [can_send_ecards] => 1
    [ufc_max] => 0
    [ufc_min] => 0
    [custom_user_upload] => 0
    [num_file_upload] => 5
    [num_URI_upload] => 3
    [can_post_comments] => 1
    [can_upload_pictures] => 1
    [can_create_albums] => 1
    [has_admin_access] => 1
    [pub_upl_need_approval] => 0
    [priv_upl_need_approval] => 0
    [group_name] => Administrators
    [upload_form_config] => 0
    [group_quota] => 1024
    [can_see_all_albums] => 1
    [group_id] => 1
    [groups] => Array
        (
            [1] => 1
        )

)

==========================
Queries:
------------------
Array
(
   

• => SELECT extension, mime, content FROM cpg132_filetypes;
      [1] => SELECT * FROM cpg132_users WHERE user_id='1'AND user_active = 'YES' AND user_password != '' AND BINARY MD5(user_password) = '16e9e9142456bc31d264ffbb7a295a65'
      [2] => SELECT MAX(group_quota) as disk_max, MIN(group_quota) as disk_min, MAX(can_rate_pictures) as can_rate_pictures, MAX(can_send_ecards) as can_send_ecards, MAX(upload_form_config) as ufc_max, MIN(upload_form_config) as ufc_min, MAX(custom_user_upload) as custom_user_upload, MAX(num_file_upload) as num_file_upload, MAX(num_URI_upload) as num_URI_upload, MAX(can_post_comments) as can_post_comments, MAX(can_upload_pictures) as can_upload_pictures, MAX(can_create_albums) as can_create_albums, MAX(has_admin_access) as has_admin_access, MIN(pub_upl_need_approval) as pub_upl_need_approval, MIN( priv_upl_need_approval) as  priv_upl_need_approval FROM cpg132_usergroups WHERE group_id in (1)
      [3] => SELECT group_name FROM  cpg132_usergroups WHERE group_id= 1
      [4] => DELETE FROM cpg132_banned WHERE expiry < 1133858570
      [5] => SELECT * FROM cpg132_banned WHERE ip_addr='195.13.11.226' OR ip_addr='195.13.11.226' OR user_id=1
      [6] => SELECT category FROM cpg132_albums WHERE aid='58'
  )
  
  ==========================
  GET :
  ------------------
  Array
  (
  )
  
  ==========================
  POST :
  ------------------
  Array
  (
      [album] => 58
      [MAX_FILE_SIZE] => 1048576
      [title] =>
      [caption] =>
      [keywords] =>
      [event] => picture
  )
  
  ==========================
  VERSION INFO :
  ------------------
  PHP version: 4.4.1 - OK
  ------------------
  mySQL version: 4.0.25-standard
  ------------------
  Coppermine version: 1.3.2
  ==========================
  Module: gd
  ------------------
  GD Support enabled
  GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
  GIF Read Support enabled
  GIF Create Support enabled
  JPG Support enabled
  PNG Support enabled
  WBMP Support enabled
  XBM Support enabled
  ==========================
  Module: mysql
  ------------------
  Active Persistent Links 3
  Active Links 4
  Client API version 4.0.25
  MYSQL_MODULE_TYPE external
  MYSQL_SOCKET /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
  MYSQL_INCLUDE -I/usr/include/mysql
  MYSQL_LIBS -L/usr/lib -lmysqlclient 
  ==========================
  Module: zlib
  ------------------
  ZLib Support enabled
  Compiled Version 1.2.0.7
  Linked Version 1.2.0.7
  ==========================
  Server restrictions (safe mode)?
  ------------------
  Directive | Local Value | Master Value
  safe_mode | Off | Off
  safe_mode_exec_dir | no value | no value
  safe_mode_gid | Off | Off
  safe_mode_include_dir | no value | no value
  safe_mode_exec_dir | no value | no value
  sql.safe_mode | Off | Off
  disable_functions | no value | no value
  file_uploads | On | On
  include_path | .:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php | .:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php
  open_basedir | no value | no value
  ==========================
  email
  ------------------
  Directive | Local Value | Master Value
  sendmail_from | no value | no value
  sendmail_path | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
  SMTP | localhost | localhost
  smtp_port | 25 | 25
  ==========================
  Size and Time
  ------------------
  Directive | Local Value | Master Value
  max_execution_time | 30 | 30
  max_input_time | -1 | -1
  upload_max_filesize | 2M | 2M
  post_max_size | 55M | 55M
  ==========================
  Page generated in 0.041 seconds - 7 queries in 0.002 seconds - Album set : [/b]
  
  I think i've set everything ok... searched the coppermine support but can't really find out how to handle this annoying problem.
  
  Any of you experts want to help me out plz?
  
  PS: i've set the groups (admin + registered) to single file upload and upload pictures is on...
  
  
  Thanks a lot
  
  Bates
  

[gram]

IF you are running on a Linux/Unix server, this problem is almost always rights related.

You most likely FTP'd the coppermine files into place (Files now "belong" to your FTP user), and now the coppermine script (running as a different user - most Linux systems the webserver runs as user "nobody") is trying to create a directory and write files in a directory it does not own.  You will need to use your FTP client (so that you are logged in as the file/directory owner) to change the permissions so that the webserver can modify and create files.

See your documentation for coppermine, and in particular the required directory permissions.  They need to be writable for the webserver.  In some cases that will mean changing the directory permissions to "755".  In most cases it means changing the directory permissions to "777".  The difference is too deep for this type of discussion, so I would suggest you FTP to that directory, and change it to 755 and try again.  If that does not work, try 777.

GRAM

[Bates]

Hi Gram,

thank you for replying to my message. My situation is, i've installed coppermine via the cpanel of my host which i'm using a linux package on. When I tried to install some new themes yesterday I noticed that there was a coppermine map now on the server. Could you please give me some more details what to do, like in what map i should go (name) and what precisely I should change? I've never done this..


Thanks in advance
Bates

[Joachim Müller]

don't use auto-installers, they're known to be buggy. Use the package that you can download from our page and do as suggested in the docs that come with it.