Hello,
I have a problem I hope someone can help me with:
I've made adjustments to the standard look of phpgedview for my website. I've built it on a webserver in my local network, and now I have rebuilt it on the "live" web server. Everything is running fine, except for one thing: The "Manage multimedia" and "Upload media files" buttons are missing in my menu! They're present on the testserver, but not on production. This is strange, because I've copied the theme files & the adjusted files such as class_menubar.php files from the testserver to the live server, so they're using the same files. I had this problem on my testserver as well, but solved it by (I think it was the only change between problem and resolution) reloading the .ged file. Ofcourse I tried this on the live server as well, but to no avail, the problem persists. This is very cumbersome, as I am now unable to add multimedia files (but I could do that using FTP) or create objects from them.
I have two questions:
1) Does anyone know of a second way to add multimedia objects and connect them to individuals?
2) Does anyone have a clue what's going on here? Why am I not seeing the submenu options?
I am using the adminsitrator account, so there are no permission-restrictions as far as I know.
Please help, thank you!
Regards
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I've made adjustments to the standard look of phpgedview
This makes support most difficult as we can't see what you've done or not done. Generally speaking, we don't support these kind of changes and you're on your own.
Does anyone have a clue what's going on here?
AFAIK, those menu items will only appear for an admin-level, gedcom specific user. Is this your setting in your USER file?
Does anyone know of a second way
As to adding MO, I never use the function you describe as its too slow and cumbersome when you have thousands of MO. I add MO to INDI's, FAM's (level one) and FACTS/EVENTs (level 2) via the INDI, FAM or FACT/EVEN tag. If I need to EDIT a MO, I do so from the INDI or FAM record and select EDIT. While I think this is possible using just Media - I use Lightbox/Album as the only MO tab.
Gerry's the resident expert on the program, and particularly on MO manipulation, so perhaps he'll chime in.
-Stephen
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hi Stephen,
I know that makes it difficult, but since it pops up on the live server and not on the production server, I figured the issue is not related to the changes I've made, but possibly a general bug. However, using the method you use yourself, it works! Thanks for the tip!
Regards,
iSpaceCrusader
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You don't have media enabled properly on the "live" server. Assuming that the GEDCOM configurations on both servers are identical (specifically: the Multi-Media option), the problem can only be that the "media" directory on the "live" server doesn't have universal read/write/modify (0777) permission.
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Hello,
I have a problem I hope someone can help me with:
I've made adjustments to the standard look of phpgedview for my website. I've built it on a webserver in my local network, and now I have rebuilt it on the "live" web server. Everything is running fine, except for one thing: The "Manage multimedia" and "Upload media files" buttons are missing in my menu! They're present on the testserver, but not on production. This is strange, because I've copied the theme files & the adjusted files such as class_menubar.php files from the testserver to the live server, so they're using the same files. I had this problem on my testserver as well, but solved it by (I think it was the only change between problem and resolution) reloading the .ged file. Ofcourse I tried this on the live server as well, but to no avail, the problem persists. This is very cumbersome, as I am now unable to add multimedia files (but I could do that using FTP) or create objects from them.
I have two questions:
1) Does anyone know of a second way to add multimedia objects and connect them to individuals?
2) Does anyone have a clue what's going on here? Why am I not seeing the submenu options?
I am using the adminsitrator account, so there are no permission-restrictions as far as I know.
Please help, thank you!
Regards
crusader
This makes support most difficult as we can't see what you've done or not done. Generally speaking, we don't support these kind of changes and you're on your own.
AFAIK, those menu items will only appear for an admin-level, gedcom specific user. Is this your setting in your USER file?
As to adding MO, I never use the function you describe as its too slow and cumbersome when you have thousands of MO. I add MO to INDI's, FAM's (level one) and FACTS/EVENTs (level 2) via the INDI, FAM or FACT/EVEN tag. If I need to EDIT a MO, I do so from the INDI or FAM record and select EDIT. While I think this is possible using just Media - I use Lightbox/Album as the only MO tab.
Gerry's the resident expert on the program, and particularly on MO manipulation, so perhaps he'll chime in.
-Stephen
hi Stephen,
I know that makes it difficult, but since it pops up on the live server and not on the production server, I figured the issue is not related to the changes I've made, but possibly a general bug. However, using the method you use yourself, it works! Thanks for the tip!
Regards,
iSpaceCrusader
It's NOT a bug!!!!!
You don't have media enabled properly on the "live" server. Assuming that the GEDCOM configurations on both servers are identical (specifically: the Multi-Media option), the problem can only be that the "media" directory on the "live" server doesn't have universal read/write/modify (0777) permission.