I have Installed phpix2.0pre4 on a windows NT 4.0 Server (IIS4.0) and I just wanted to share my experience. Obviously I had to use the 3rd installation method listed in the install file (Manual/FTP Only). The first problem I had was no index.php. Both index.php and dfl_index.php are the same placeholder page. I had to go through the cvs to find a real index.php (Revision 1.2) in the attic directory. Is this the latest revision of index.php?
Once I got the index.php everything (almost) started working. Here are the problems I have:
1. The images are recreated everytime (instead of using the ones in the cache) if phpix is in the root of the webserver, if I move it to a directory off of the root (like /photos) it will use the cached images and everything is quick.
2. When I add a new folder to the albums directory phpix2 can't seem to create the corresponding directory in the cache folder.
I get the message (Warning: imagejpeg: unable to open 'cache/album3/imagename.jpg_scaled_100.jpg' for writing in common.inc on line 280) for each image in the new directory.
If I manually create the folder in the cache directory phpix2 has no problem writing in the directory. I am giving everyone read and write permisions to the cache folder in IIS and "full control" in the NTFS permissions.
Besides these two problems everything else works great. I really like this script. My next step is to get ImageMagick working on NT.
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Your two problems(images being recreated and no directory being created) have to do ,I believe, with convert.sh. Take a look at it, it seems to make all the calls for that stuff ie. mkdir but its missing some package that is obviously found on a unix machine witch i cant seem to locate for windows.
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Anonymous
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2001-03-06
Woo woo windows testers!
I'm going to take a total shot in the dark and say that, because you're running Windows, the $SCRIPT_FILENAME environment variable isn't what PHPix2 is expecting. So, I want you to take the following steps:
1. Change the "chdir($matches[1]);" in common.inc to "chdir('c:\\wherever\\you\\installed');"
2. Change the "$scriptbase =" line in common.inc to "c:\\wherever\\you\\installed"
3. Let me know if that fixes things :-)
Since you're using the "gd" method, the convert script never gets used. You can delete it if you want. The new folder problem is something I should have fixed a long time ago and isn't unique to NT; it's that PHPix 1.x put the thumbnails in the albums directory and didn't ever need to create new directories. Because I split the two apart, I need to make sure the directory is there before creating the thumbnail. The version in CVS does this now (I think, can you try it?).
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I have Installed phpix2.0pre4 on a windows NT 4.0 Server (IIS4.0) and I just wanted to share my experience. Obviously I had to use the 3rd installation method listed in the install file (Manual/FTP Only). The first problem I had was no index.php. Both index.php and dfl_index.php are the same placeholder page. I had to go through the cvs to find a real index.php (Revision 1.2) in the attic directory. Is this the latest revision of index.php?
Once I got the index.php everything (almost) started working. Here are the problems I have:
1. The images are recreated everytime (instead of using the ones in the cache) if phpix is in the root of the webserver, if I move it to a directory off of the root (like /photos) it will use the cached images and everything is quick.
2. When I add a new folder to the albums directory phpix2 can't seem to create the corresponding directory in the cache folder.
I get the message (Warning: imagejpeg: unable to open 'cache/album3/imagename.jpg_scaled_100.jpg' for writing in common.inc on line 280) for each image in the new directory.
If I manually create the folder in the cache directory phpix2 has no problem writing in the directory. I am giving everyone read and write permisions to the cache folder in IIS and "full control" in the NTFS permissions.
Besides these two problems everything else works great. I really like this script. My next step is to get ImageMagick working on NT.
Your two problems(images being recreated and no directory being created) have to do ,I believe, with convert.sh. Take a look at it, it seems to make all the calls for that stuff ie. mkdir but its missing some package that is obviously found on a unix machine witch i cant seem to locate for windows.
Woo woo windows testers!
I'm going to take a total shot in the dark and say that, because you're running Windows, the $SCRIPT_FILENAME environment variable isn't what PHPix2 is expecting. So, I want you to take the following steps:
1. Change the "chdir($matches[1]);" in common.inc to "chdir('c:\\wherever\\you\\installed');"
2. Change the "$scriptbase =" line in common.inc to "c:\\wherever\\you\\installed"
3. Let me know if that fixes things :-)
Since you're using the "gd" method, the convert script never gets used. You can delete it if you want. The new folder problem is something I should have fixed a long time ago and isn't unique to NT; it's that PHPix 1.x put the thumbnails in the albums directory and didn't ever need to create new directories. Because I split the two apart, I need to make sure the directory is there before creating the thumbnail. The version in CVS does this now (I think, can you try it?).
ok i did that, it didnt seem to help any. No error messages came up either