[weetu]

For the past 6 years I've been using Gallery ( http://gallery.menalto.com/ ) to put my photos online. I like how it's easy to customize. Since moving to MDD, every new picture I upload is broken. I finally gave up and switched to Jalbum ( http://jalbum.net/ ) It's Ok but every time I add a picture, I have to rebuild the whole album plus redo all the custom changes that I previously made. Major PITA.
So, I'm wondering if anybody here has a photo gallery hosted at MMD . I would like to know what you're using especially if you've customized it. A link to your albums would be great too.

[MikeDVB]

weetu, on Aug 1 2009, 07:27 AM, said:

For the past 6 years I've been using Gallery ( http://gallery.menalto.com/ ) to put my photos online. I like how it's easy to customize. Since moving to MDD, every new picture I upload is broken. I finally gave up and switched to Jalbum ( http://jalbum.net/ ) It's Ok but every time I add a picture, I have to rebuild the whole album plus redo all the custom changes that I previously made. Major PITA.
So, I'm wondering if anybody here has a photo gallery hosted at MMD . I would like to know what you're using especially if you've customized it. A link to your albums would be great too.

I was personally using Gallery2 - I can put it back online if you want to see it in action on our services.

I found that it very picky with the mod_rewrite as it would work without the www. but not with it - but this is a fairly common issue with Gallery2 at many providers - I just never put the time into fixing it because I just used mod_rewrite to ensure users ended up at the right URL

[weetu]

Thats not the problem that I'm having with it.I've tried with www and without.
My problem is all the thumbnails are broken. Click on the broken image icon and the image opens like it should.
Following help from Gallery forums, then all images end up broken.
I played with it this morning with a fresh install and no tweaking by me.
http://weetu.com/test

[MikeDVB]

http://mikedvb.com/gallery/main.php

Working just fine for me - you may want to contact Gallery support - also make sure to tell them that http://mikedvb.com/gallery/main.php is a gallery that is running on the very same server.

I know that I am using GD instead of ImageMagick, what are you using ? (listed under plugins in Site Admin).

If you are using ImageMagick let me know what path you are using (as it could be wrong).

[weetu]

MikeDVB, on Aug 1 2009, 12:59 PM, said:

http://mikedvb.com/gallery/main.php

Working just fine for me - you may want to contact Gallery support - also make sure to tell them that http://mikedvb.com/gallery/main.php is a gallery that is running on the very same server.

I know that I am using GD instead of ImageMagick, what are you using ? (listed under plugins in Site Admin).

If you are using ImageMagick let me know what path you are using (as it could be wrong).

A few weeks ago I disabled everything except GD as instructed by the gallery support forums. When I did that, nothing worked. I got a black box for the thumbs and a broken image icon for the full size picture.

I just limited the size of the full size images to 1024x1024 and it seems to be working on 90% of the photos but only if I use gallery remote to upload LOL
I have another gallery installed on this server that I brought over when I moved here. It works fine. I just can't add new pictures to it. I'll try to limit the sizes later and see if that fixes it.

At this point, I'm more interested in trying out new free software instead of fixing this. Just haven't found anything I like better.

[MikeDVB]

I uploaded my pictures to my gallery on the server at 8megapixel and let it resize them and had no issues. I do not remember if I FTP'd the files or if I used the uploader.

If you can determine that there is a server limitation by all means I can have adjustments made for you but until we know what the real issue is behind the broken thumbnails there isn't much that can be done.

I just know that mine has always worked just as I had expected.

[MjrNuT]

Sorry for the bump, but I think its worth mentioning at least...

1. I'd like to know what you (OP) ended up doing. Fixing, scraping, or limping along.

2. I just ran Mike and his staff through the gauntlet on getting IMagick working. It is by far operating over and above GD. I have give my sincerest compliments to him and his Staff to enable it. I'm on basic shared plan account, if that makes a difference.

3. i will be flogging Gallery2 and will gladly share my experience here as hosting is different from place to place for configuration.

4. Don't mean to go Off topic, but was wondering if the OP or Mike have enabled FFMpeg for video streaming? Figured my question would be partially relevant here.

Thanks!

[MikeDVB]

MjrNuT, on Aug 15 2009, 02:09 PM, said:

2. I just ran Mike and his staff through the gauntlet on getting IMagick working. It is by far operating over and above GD. I have give my sincerest compliments to him and his Staff to enable it. I'm on basic shared plan account, if that makes a difference.

It ended up in an over-all positive change on all servers allowing php access to ImageMagic

MjrNuT, on Aug 15 2009, 02:09 PM, said:

4. Don't mean to go Off topic, but was wondering if the OP or Mike have enabled FFMpeg for video streaming? Figured my question would be partially relevant here.

We only allow FFMPEG on our semi-dedicated solutions simply due to how resource intensive FFMPEG can be especially for a busy video type of site. As for video streaming - I've never messed with it so I'm not sure if you would need anything special server-side to do it. I know for "live" streaming you would but for things like WMV and such it should be pretty automatic.

[MjrNuT]

MikeDVB, on Aug 15 2009, 11:36 AM, said:

It ended up in an over-all positive change on all servers allowing php access to ImageMagic

We only allow FFMPEG on our semi-dedicated solutions simply due to how resource intensive FFMPEG can be especially for a busy video type of site. As for video streaming - I've never messed with it so I'm not sure if you would need anything special server-side to do it. I know for "live" streaming you would but for things like WMV and such it should be pretty automatic.

Thanks for the reply Mike.

I think I used the wrong wording for ffmpeg. What I meant to say is to upload video files like avi I guess, which would be viewed from Gallyer2. Please correct me still though. I was not meaning to like watch a full featured movie akin to hulu, which would be streaming...right?

[MikeDVB]

FFMPEG is just an encoding appliance that will convert a file from one video format to another such as from .avi to .flv for viewing online etc...

You can upload a .avi and have people watch it but you won't be able to convert it on-server so if you wanted it as .flv instead of .avi you would have to do this on your PC (you can get a copy of FFMPEG for your desktop even!)

[supernix]

FFMPEG is such a small file why not install it for everyone can't hurt. Gallery needs the file to be able to work with videos that you can upload for people to view.

[MikeDVB]

supernix, on Mar 15 2010, 10:26 PM, said:

FFMPEG is such a small file why not install it for everyone can't hurt. Gallery needs the file to be able to work with videos that you can upload for people to view.

It's not the size of the library but the CPU/RAM implications of it's use in a standard shared environment. If you want FFMPEG it is available on all of our semi-dedicated plans and can be installed upon request on any VPS or Dedicated server we offer :-)