ok, probably silly coppermine issue

Werewolf · 8 Nov 2009 at 06:08

Hi

I'm trying to get coppermine to work on my website.
I've got it installed ok, after an initial problem with folder permissions I'm not longer getting an "you need to set folder permissions to 757 or 777" (I think was the message), when I try and batch add pics i've already uploaded via FTP (they are in a folder in the coppermind albums directory).

What is happening, is that basically the batch add option shows a list of the pictures i'm trying to add, complete with thumnails, I make sure all the boxes are ticked and tell it to add them to the gallery I want them in, and then it just goes back to asking me to "please select a directory" to add pictures from again, with the pics never making it into the gallery.
There are no spaces or special characters in any of the file names

(they are all along the lines of img_123abc.jpg)

I know it's probably something silly, but i've been trying to get it working for about 2-3 hours and i'm stumped (although to be fair this sort of thing does that anyway, especially when it's 4am).

[edit]
manually uploading an image works but that would have to be a last resort, as i've got about 300 odd files to upload.

NathanT · 8 Nov 2009 at 15:10

Long shot, but my experience with Coppermine from a long time.

I know most of this you will have covered, but best to start from the start.

* Is your PC turned on... (only joking)

Coppermine is a bit of a @@@@@ system, you have probably checked your file permissions a few times trying to get it to work, I'd start with re-setting them.

Permissions on the /albums, /albums/userpics, and /albums/edit directories all should usually be 777 or 755 (depending on what box config your using)
Also check the permissions of the folder you use for bulk uploading if it is different from any of the above.

Are you using any capitalisation in your folder name/file names? Also something that Coppermine never really liked, it can deal with it 90% of the time, but its worth checking your not in that 10%.

Last thing, not sure about this (check the coppermine docs), coppermine uses a number of pre-determined names that are "reserved" I believe one of them is img_, others are thumb_ and normal_ .

Failing that, I'd have to ask you to post any errors you get using debug mode.

Werewolf · 9 Nov 2009 at 00:17

Thanks

I've tried resetting the file permissions from the sites control panel/file manager, it looks like coppermine will only allow bulk importing from a folder inside it's own directory, so permissions are the ssame.

none of the images or folders have any capitalisation, and it doesn't look like any of the file names would be affected by the reserved file names.

in debug mode it doesn't give much more information just

Code:

The odd thing is, I used the "reset config" button earlier to reset it in case I had done something when I initially set it up, and now I can't even get the basic upload working, that just gives a message about "previous file could not be placed, all files sucessfully placed" (or something similar).

I'm tempted to delete it, and reinstall it it from scratch.

Notice regarding image hosts and attachments. See here.

ok, probably silly coppermine issue

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