Need Help With Gallery Install

[webgyrl]

Hi,

 

I just did a first time install of Gallery via Fantastico in cPanel.

 

I can not see any Thumbnails at all in the gallery I created: http://www.natalie-brown.com/*holiday (please remove * to make URL work). I have ImageMagick configured to deal with the thumbnails. I went to "maintenance" in Site Admin and ran all the tools. The strange thing is that when I run the " Build all thumbnails/resizes" tool the window hangs and it does not finish the building. This is what the diagnostic says:

nsure data files for all derivatives (thumbnails, etc) have been built and rebuild broken ones.

 

Last Run Details:

 

Checked 785 items

785 items built

785 items failed

 

But it says "success" in green.

 

I am not sure what to do to make the gallery thumbs work.

 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

Gallery version = 2.0.2 core 1.0.0.2

PHP version = 4.4.2 apache

Webserver = Apache

Database = mysql 4.1.19-standard

Toolkits = ArchiveUpload, Exif, ImageMagick, NetPBM, SquareThumb, Thumbnail, Gd

Operating system = Linux server329.tchmachines.com 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Mar 8 00:27:03 CST 2006 i686

Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

 

The only other thing I can think that might be wrong is my path to ImageMagick for the thumbnail and resizing. The path I have is: /usr/local/bin/

The other options for image thumbnailing and resizing are:

GD and netPBM

I am not sure what the paths are for these resizing tools or if they are even installed on TCH servers.

 

Thank you for any help you can give to get this gallery working.

 

Edited June 9, 2006 by webgyrl

[wampthing]

While this not be the answer, it may help narrow down the problem.

Try rebuiling thumbnails in a smaller batch as aposed to all at once. I know i get a failure if I do them all at once.

 

I dont remember what the magic number was, but you might try 20 or so to make sure your not bighting off more than the server can chew.

[webgyrl]

While this not be the answer, it may help narrow down the problem.

Try rebuiling thumbnails in a smaller batch as aposed to all at once. I know i get a failure if I do them all at once.

 

I dont remember what the magic number was, but you might try 20 or so to make sure your not bighting off more than the server can chew.

 

Hi Dave!

 

Thanks for the advice. How do I limit the number of thumbnails I can rebuild? I can not see a tool to do that. I actually just deleted a whole bunch of sub-albums to try the rebuild to see if it would work with a smaller number of files.

Where in the Gallery Admin can I set the batch limit?

 

Thanks so much.

 

PS... I also emailed Tech Support and they say /usr/local/bin/ is the correct path for ImageMagick.

[wampthing]

Also, how are you uploading the pictures? Are you using the publish from XP utility or are you FTPing them, or selecting them one web based upload page?

[webgyrl]

Also, how are you uploading the pictures? Are you using the publish from XP utility or are you FTPing them, or selecting them one web based upload page?

 

Dave,

 

I am using the XP utility.

 

Thanks

[wampthing]

I was able to update the thumbnails by

-ADMIN TOOLS

-Update thumbs and/or resized photos

-Number of processed images per click

[wampthing]

I take it all back!

I use coppermine. It didnt click that you are using Gallery. Boy, do I feel stupid. I dont know what to tell you in that case.

 

(is there a way to delete all of these posts before someone else sees them?)

 

Sorry.

 

(if you have any questions about my ability to help, just check out my signature)

Edited June 9, 2006 by wampthing

[webgyrl]

I was able to update the thumbnails by

-ADMIN TOOLS

-Update thumbs and/or resized photos

-Number of processed images per click

 

 

Dave,

 

I am running Gallery 2 and in the "Admin Options" I see "Maintenance" and my only option for running the task "Build all thumbnails/resizes" is the "run now" option. When I click the plus sign to extend that task category, all it gives me is the resuslts from the last time I ran the task.

 

When I click "Run Now" it just runs the task and does not allow me task options.

 

Is there another place I can look to do the batch process?

 

Thanks so much!

[webgyrl]

OK I just ran the rebuild utility with 96 images and that worked.

 

The thumbs are showing fine.

 

What will happen now when I add more images? Do I have to keep rebuilding, and if so... there seems to be a drag on the server when I upload over 100 images. The gallery will end up having about 500 images in total.

[webgyrl]

I take it all back!

I use coppermine. It didnt click that you are using Gallery. Boy, do I feel stupid. I dont know what to tell you in that case.

 

(is there a way to delete all of these posts before someone else sees them?)

 

Sorry.

 

(if you have any questions about my ability to help, just check out my signature)

 

Dave! No problem. You did get me thinking that the image load was too much. As you can see from my reply above, deleting a bunch of images did help with the processing. Now I just wonder what will happen as I add albums to the gallery.

 

If anyone has experience with Gallery 2, please let me know how you process thumbs with larger amounts of images.

 

Thanks

[webgyrl]

Just in case anyone runs into this topic. I think what I did wrong was that I did not have the path to ImageMagick set up correctly when I first installed the Gallery script. This may have messed things up.

 

Be sure to have the correct path in first before you upload a bunch of images. All is working fine now.

 

Thanks again Dave... if you had not mentioned the amount of images I would not have tried deleting some and running the resize/thumbnail tool with a lower amount of images.

 

You helped and I thank you!

[flashram]

webgyrl,

 

Just had a look at your site, one minitue it is white, next click it is green, then select a photo it is white again. Certainly is GREEN on one page, did I mention it was GREEN on one page. Also the last two images seem to have no thumbnails there.

[TCH-Bruce]

I see all the thumbnails with the exception of the two albums with no photos.