Sunday
Nov122006
Pixelpost stress
Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 19:04
Pixelpost is a PHP based image gallery for showing photos. It includes displaying EXIF info, and (according to the website) is VERY EASY to install. Since I'm not a PHP guru (yet), and needed to have a (customizable, and not too overpowered) photo gallery for my photos.
Downloaded the 'install kit' from the website, and followed the instructions.
When I installed Wordpress on my Windows server, I ran into some problems with permissions on directories. Especially on directories which were used to upload stuff to.
Armed with that piece of knowledge, it shouldn't be too difficult to get it up and running (I thought).
The installation itself was a piece of cake. The Pixelpost admin tool has an overview (General Info) which said that all settings were made correctly, and therefor should work. All directories were in place and were writable. The MySQL database was also set up correctly, because the initial tables were created by the PixelPost install script, and the config table was filled with the correct settings.
Time to upload my first test image.... Nothing happend. No matter what I tried, no images were uploaded to the server. Still the General Info page of the Pixelpost admin tool said that everything was OK:
Even after setting the security for the entire PixelPost directory structure to allow the Internet User Account (IUSR_MACHINENAME) full control over the structure, nothing happend.
Well, that was another 3 hours well spent..... Off to find another PHP gallery.
Downloaded the 'install kit' from the website, and followed the instructions.
When I installed Wordpress on my Windows server, I ran into some problems with permissions on directories. Especially on directories which were used to upload stuff to.
Armed with that piece of knowledge, it shouldn't be too difficult to get it up and running (I thought).
The installation itself was a piece of cake. The Pixelpost admin tool has an overview (General Info) which said that all settings were made correctly, and therefor should work. All directories were in place and were writable. The MySQL database was also set up correctly, because the initial tables were created by the PixelPost install script, and the config table was filled with the correct settings.
Time to upload my first test image.... Nothing happend. No matter what I tried, no images were uploaded to the server. Still the General Info page of the Pixelpost admin tool said that everything was OK:
Configured Imagepath: ../images/
Image Directory: OK - Can we write to the directory? YES. CHMOD: 0777
Thumbnails Directory: OK - Can we write to the directory? YES. CHMOD: 0777
Language Directory: OK
Addons Directory: OK
Includes Directory: OK
Templates Directory: OK
Even after setting the security for the entire PixelPost directory structure to allow the Internet User Account (IUSR_MACHINENAME) full control over the structure, nothing happend.
Well, that was another 3 hours well spent..... Off to find another PHP gallery.
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