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I have several hundred images in a stage galleria album that's serving as my home page replacement. But it appears that the slideshow doesn't include all of the images (I have verified that they are all uploaded). I'm guessing that there is some kind of page size setting (akin to the number of thumbnails per page in a grid display), but I haven't been able to spot it. Is there such a thing, or perhaps just a limit on the size of galleria slideshows? Thanks.
I've asked my host to change it (I don't think I have access to that). Regardless, you raise a good point about left over data.
Given that I've only now started to build out the site (after a lot of experimentation), I think it's best that I reinstall CE4 and start out with a proverbial clean slate. I'll take your suggestion of creating named collections for my existing albums so that their easy to rebuild if needed.
Thanks again.
Hi Rod/Ben - Thanks so much for the prompt and detailed responses. This forum is really helpful to newcomers!
It is possible that I deleted an album via ftp, and (given the excellent instructions on TTG Tips and Tricks), I think I would be OK deleting records from the database myself (thanks Ben, for offering to do it). However, when I click on the phpLiteAdmin link, I get:
"It appears that the PHP directive, 'register_globals' is enabled. This is bad. You need to disable it before continuing."
Is this something I can fix myself?
Thanks!
I noticed the following problems after installing the new 2.3.0 update (for my in-construction website http://www.jshorephoto.com, but I actually don't know if they existed before:
1. On the Publisher Admin page, if I "update album files", I'm told that 10 Albums were successfully updated, but I think I only have 7 albums (counting the home page album and the replacement album for the home page album).
2. This is probably related: If I search with a liberal search string (e.g., just "a", or even "SOJA", one of the galleries listed under Albums is "Galleries >> Album", but if I don't have an album named Album, and if I click on Album I get {"status":"error","message":"The album could not be found."}" Such an "Album" is not shown in LR as a Publisher album, and it's not listed on the Galleries page. This may be crud left over from earlier test albums, but I can't figure out how to get rid of it.
Two other questions about Publisher:
1. How can I "unpublish" an album - i.e., delete it from the server, but not from LR? In LR, one can delete the album from LR while leaving on the server, but I'm looking for the reverse.
2. Where is the new setting to provide block text for search template?
Thanks!
js
Thanks Rod. Actually, despite what I wrote (copied from the wrong place), I did set "$reversit = true" in all of the places I listed.
But I did not change it yoursite.com/lib/autoindex/autoindex-view.php! Once I did, the reverse sort worked as described.
Many thanks.
The documentation (which you cited and which is what I was working from) just says change it in /lib/autoindex/autoindex-view.php, No doubt CE4 experts know that means to do it in yoursite.com, but for a relative newcomer that's hard to figure out. It's confusing, for example, since the documentation is general for autoindex rather than specific for Pages,. Since there's a /lib/autoindex/autoindex-view.php in ttg-be/admin, I figured that would be most general, which is why I changed it there.
I'm assuming that setting "$reversit = true" in all of the other places I mentioned is harmless - i.e., will just result in a reverse sort in other autoindex uses. If that's not the case, please let me know.
Thanks again for your prompt and helpful response.
js
I have been unable to get a reverse sort of the albums shown on the Galleries page of a site I've started building at http://www.jshorephoto.com. Currently I have three galleries, which I want to have listed in this order:
20150510-border-state-garrett-park
20150422-matt-carly
20141228-gogol-bordello-930
The documentation says to set "$reverseit = false" in the file /lib/autoindex/autoindex-view.php. However, it's not clear which lib folder is meant. I first edited what I thought was meant, namely the lib folder on the server in ttg-be/admin/.
But that didn't work (I did republish everything, and I reset all pages in the Publisher admin page).
So I edited autoindex-view.php in all the other places I found it. One the server at:
ttg-be/templates/gallery/js pages galleria-galleria/lib/autoindex (the template I'm using for CE4 Pages)
ttg-be/templates/gallery/js autoindex/lib/autoindex (the template I created for auto-index, although I don't think it's relevant to Pages/Galleries)
and in these places locally inUsers/js/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Galleries:
CE4-Pages.lrwebengine/lib/resources/autoindex
CE4-Gallery.lrwebengine/lib/resources/autoindex
However, I still get the default sort on my Galleries page (i.e. 20141228-gogol-bordello-930 is shown first)
I'm new at this, so I've likely just overlooked something. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. js
Oh, and to come full circle, GA does now report individual image visits.
OK; thanks again.
That fixed it - after I went through all of the .htaccess edits to test mod_rewrite, I edited ttg-be/publisher/application/skeleton/gallery/htaccess as described and did the "Update Album Files".
I greatly appreciate the help in getting this fixed, but I have to say it's disconcerting that this fix from 9 months ago was not in the CE4 release that I just purchased; I wasted a lot of time chasing this.
Anyway, thanks again. I'm noticing some other oddities with single-html albums, but I doubt they're related so I'll see if I can figure them out myself.
js
The provider (www.aplus.net) advises me that mod_rewrite is enabled, and they therefore believe there's a coding issue. Here's the meat of what they sent:
Please be informed that mod_rewrite is enabled on our servers, see the attached screenshot. Since this is a commercial code, it may vary depending on the configuration of the hosting. If it requires certain services (like mod-rewrite), then it may work on your domain with minimal to no changes on its coding. We advise you to check the .htaccess directives on your webspace as it might also affect the whole functionality of your site.
They installed a little test script at http://www.jshorephoto.com/mod_rewrite_test/ (which you can run) - it reports "mod_rewrite works!".
i would appreciate any additional help. Thanks. js
Thanks Rod.
Thank you Rod and Matt.
I've submitted a ticket to my provider asking them to enable mod_rewrite. Meanwhile, I'm puzzled about something that's either a clue or just is an example of my not understanding how CS4 works. When I click on a thumbnail in the gallery http://www.jshorephoto.com/galleries/so … html-html/ , the resulting URL in the browser address bar is (for example) "http://www.jshorephoto.com/galleries/so … single.php", and the browser reports the error I mentioned: "The requested URL /j/s/jshorephoto.com/public/galleries/soja-test-html-html/single.php was not found on this server".
When I look directly (via FTP) at the directory jshorephoto.com/public/galleries/soja-test-html-html, I do see single.php, but I don't see a file 20131229_js_1352-d-s1-single.php (which is in the URL in the browser address bar). Is that to be expected? I had assumed that I could find somewhere a static html page for 20131229_js_1352-d-s1.
js
Ha (and ouch!) - you're right, of course. I was careful to prepare the two templates, but sloppy when I created the albums. Thanks.
But, now, after publishing (correctly) the html-html album (template: js gallery html-html), attempts to view individual images on both desktop and mobile yield the same error as the permalink error: "The requested URL /j/s/jshorephoto.com/public/galleries/soja-test-html-html/single.php was not found on this server". So it appears that whatever is ailing the permalink also causes single-html to fail (which I guess isn't surprising).
js
Hi Rod and Matt - Thank you both for your prompt responses. When I posted, I was very low on the leaning curve, so before replying I wanted to get higher so I understood CE4 better and could do some experiments. Having made a lot of progress, I first want to say "hats off!" to Matt and all involved. I'm super impressed. I got CS4, not to build a fairly-static portfolio site. but to replace a cumbersome system I had for frequently creating and posting shoot albums. CS4 is going to save me a huge amount of time, while also presenting albums in a much more useful (and prettier) way. Thank you.
OK, now for single-image HTML and Google Analytics (GA). So far, I haven't been able to make it work. I've set up a rudimentary site at http://www.jshorephoto.com/ with two test albums. One was created with desktop/mobile as highslide/touch, and the other with single-HTML for both desktop and mobile. The albums themselves work well and present well (as does search, which is fabulous), but GA still doesn't report individual image visits. I do have an important clue, namely that permalinks aren't working.
The first thing I noticed is that both albums appear the same visually and work the same on both desktop and mobile. This surprised me, as I had assumed that on the desktop the highslide and single-html albums would present and work differently. Likewise, I had assumed that on mobile, the touch and single-html would present and work differently. But I don't see any differences (e.g., I can swipe and pinch the mobile single-html album). Is that a misunderstanding on my part, or a clue? I did double check that the template used for the html-html album indeed has single-html selected for both desktop and mobile.
As I mentioned, the main clue is that permalinks don't work. When I click on a permalink icon, I get the error "The requested URL /j/s/jshorephoto.com/public/galleries/soja-test-html-html/single.php was not found on this server." The file single.php is on my site at public/galleries/soja-test-html-html/single.php". I have no idea where the "/j/s/" comes from, and if it's a coincidence that my initials are js.
A related clue has to do with setting up phplugins. When I ping www.jshorephoto.com/phplugins/path.php, it returns "/services/webpages/j/s/jshorephoto.com/public/phplugins" - there's the "j/s/" again.
The site is hosted by www.aplus.net.
I hope you can help me solve this. The permalinks are crucial because my users and I both need to be able to point to specific images. And it's likewise important that I can track image popularity via GA.
Thanks again for the great tools, and for being available to help troubleshoot.
js
I just created and published my first gallery with CE4. Visits to the gallery page itself are tracked OK in Google Analytics. I would like also to see how many times each image was viewed, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm guessing (newbie guess) that this is because the individual images are not loaded from image-specific pages (as is the case for some non-CS4 web galleries I've used). Is that right? Is there a way to create a gallery and track individual image visits? Thanks!
js