PP5.5 : errors with friendly URL, fix suggestion

flat · September 29th, 2006, 04:56 PM

Hi,

I upgraded to PP5.5 (thanks for this great release!) and everything seems to work fine except with friendly URLs.

1) FriendlyURL doesn't work with PHP5 : showphoto.php always says "picture not found in database"
This is due to the fact that PHP5 doesn't support longer $_SERVER["PATH_INFO"], that is used in showphoto.php, so photopost can't set correctly $photo.

Here is a quick fix that I would like to see applied in pp-inc.php :

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2) The new ajax previous / next filmstrip thumbnails doesn't work with FriendlyURLs
This is due to the fact that in your javascript, paths are relative to the showframe.php file. When you are using friendly URLs, you are not in the root directory (you are browsing an adress such as showphoto.php/photo/1447/cat/500/ppuser/2).
That's why Javascript can't find showframe.php in the relative directory.

I don't know how you could fix it in a generic way, but in my configuration, galeries are installed on the root folder so I just added a "/" before showframe.php in the .js file and it did the trick :

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Oh, another bug, the forum profile link doesn't show up in the profile (I didn't try to fix it...)

Michael P · September 29th, 2006, 05:49 PM

I can't duplicate #2 with Spider URLs on:

http://www.viperalley.com/gallery/sh.../24442/cat/505

I can add #1, no problem.

line 262 in the languages/english.php script should read 'forumclick', not 'forumpclick'.

I'll update the build.

flat · September 29th, 2006, 06:14 PM

Thanks for your answer Michael.
About #2, it's very strange. Our servers are maybe configured differently ? (mine is running apache2 / php5 @ linux)
I reverted my changes to pputils.js so you can view the error when you click on previous/next filmstrip on this page.
I made a minor change in pputils.js so you can view the response value, rendered below the photo :

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It seems that the response value is the source of the showphoto page itself. I think it tries to load /showphoto.php/photo/3017/cat/showframe.php?... that falls to showphoto.php

Chuck S · September 29th, 2006, 07:23 PM

Does you server setup have AcceptPathInfo On in the httpd.conf file for apache? Thats what is really needed to support the spider urls

flat · September 30th, 2006, 04:16 AM

Ok, I turned on AcceptPathInfo in apache2 configuration.
But I still get the same problem

About the fix for 1), I just noticed that PHP5 have introduced $_SERVER["ORIG_PATH_INFO"], so we can use the following lines for findenv() in pp-inc.php :

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P.S : I don't know if it can help, but PHP was installed using php5.0-cgi. You can view $_SERVER and phpinfo() here

P.P.S : I added a RewriteRule that temporarily fixed the problem :

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Chuck S · September 30th, 2006, 08:42 AM

I run PHP5 and have no issues with spider friendly urls. I think your issue is with the server setup. Obviously something in your specific setup is different than the norm. For one no one I know of uses PHP as a CGI on Linux. Usually PHP uses the Apache module not CGI in Linux. I think if you find out that you configure PHP NOT as CGI and apache has the line noted things will work just fine. Windows servers where PHP is always a CGI never work with spider urls