Flash uploader does not work

[Chuck S]

Error on Redirect

This is the correct answer for you blue.

[blue6995]

To be honest, I have no idea! How can I correct this?

[Chuck S]

The post I linked shows how to correct the redirect issue

[blue6995]

That fixed it, many thanks

[Chuck S]

No problem glad to help.

[cory_booth]

Line 41...
Comment out: //echo "uploadSuccess event detected";

flashupload.php

[Chuck S]

Can you say what your comment means?

[cory_booth]

flashupload.php
Line 41 says echo "upload......"
Comment that command out and flash uploader will work...

[Chuck S]

Interesting indeed. I will have to see what that is for.

[cory_booth]

Glad I could help - I believe it was ironed out to be the settings of a host. Something about PHP servers being more strict than others and this echo causes problems - but in reality it really doesn't do anything functionally.

One of your other supporters explained this in much more detail than I.

You can have users check their gallery directory for a error_log and you will see the symptoms of this echo. I'd post it, but I already erased it.

[Chuck S]

Well yep thanks we shall see.

[Raptor]

Originally Posted by Regs

Fixed my issue, needed to create an .htaccess file and stick SecFilterScanPOST Off in it.

The flash uploader won't work if you are using apache with mod_security on - the above fixes the issue.

This didnt fix my problem - I still get the No Images To Display

I think its pretty piss poor of Photopost staff to brush this off as a 3rd party issue when they should be busting their humps to find out whats causing the problem as many of their PAYING customers are having these problems.

Just to say "Disable it - its not our problem" is super lame.

[Chuck S]

Raptor

This is third party software which we did not write. We included it in the release because people wanted it. It is really as simple as this. We enabled a switch to enable or disable it. We have stated that to support 3rd party software that support would be from that software's manufacturer. This goes for any third party software. Take Photopost Pro for example we have lightbox and zoom scripts in that gallery we do not support those actual applications. We can not be responsible that software we do not write can work on everyones server. Your only going to see more and more of this as people want third party software flash or java applications included into the software.

These are the known things one must check to see what is happening.

1. To use the flash uploader one must enable in usergroup options that the usergroup is allowed to upload files from the server. what this means is your allowed to process files already existing on the server. Kind of like bulkupload. This is needed to be yes because the flash uploader which is a third party thing dumps files in your uploads directory. The normal upload process uses an http file prompt which is easy to process a file once its uploaded. Bypassing this to do a bulkupload means we need to check a users upload directory for files.

2. The SecFilterScanPOST Off thing is a server related permission which does not let the flash uploader do its job. This is a server issue and not an issue persay with the actual application.

Therefore here is what I would suggest you try to debug the issue. Try uploading with the flash uploader a couple small images. If nothing processes go via ftp to the gallery users directory are there files in there?

If there are no files in the directory this is why you get the issue because there is nothing to process. Therefore I would then ask your host some more indepth questions like are you running mod_security which does lock down certain things? Do they have any errors or information that helps you out. If there are not files in the actual user directory I would be absolutely sure this comes down to a server security permissions issue. Files are normally moved from the php tmp directory on the server to the users directory then we process them and they are moved to there final location in the files directory.

[Raptor]

Permission are correct. I can upload from the server no problem (I did a quick test where I uploaded 89 images to my userid folder and it worked flawlessly.

Ive disabled all mod_security in htaccess - still get No Images To Display on upload.

I will now do some testing with some updated files from swfupload.org - i will work to solve this then hopefully it will help others here who have the same issue.

[Raptor]

The SWFUpload Demos work just fine - here is the debug output

Content visible to verified customers only.

[Raptor]

maybe look at upgrading to SWFUpload v2.2.0.1 as there were a hell of a lot of issues with older versions and newer flash players

[doodsaai]

Originally Posted by cory_booth

flashupload.php
Line 41 says echo "upload......"
Comment that command out and flash uploader will work...

Done! Topic is done for me :-)
Thnx cory!

@raptor,
I agree with your opinion about putting a non supported peach of code in a product where we are paying for.

You also dont buy a new car, and after buying the sales man tels you "sorry the tire is not supported because its made in china!" If you dont support it, don't put it 'directly' in you product! (free-you-have-to-install-it-yout-self plugin that you can download after installation is a better solution than.).

Sorry Chuck for that opinion, don't take it wrong!
But i'm glad it works for me now :-)

[doodsaai]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Interesting indeed. I will have to see what that is for.

Maybe stupid, but for so far I know, my server has problems with sessions on the moment the header is already send out.

echo "uploadSuccess event detected";

session_id($_POST["PHPSESSID"]);
session_start();

after the echo there is are some lines with sessions.....
can that why it wont work with the echo line?

[Chuck S]

echo "uploadSuccess event detected";

That line is all you want to remove.

[doodsaai]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

echo "uploadSuccess event detected";

That line is all you want to remove.

Thnx for replaying. Yes already did that, works like a charm now for me now :-)