Problems with Exif Display

[dayo]

Hi Chuck

I have a problem in that I can't display Exif Data.

There is a similar post putup recently and I have followed the instructions you gave there but still no joy.

Here are the steps taken.

1) I set the two switches in admin to "Yes"
2) I set the engine to ImageMagick
3) I confirmed the location of the jhead binary from my host
4) to make sure they gave me the correct path, I set it to another path and checked my error log which read "No such file or directory found" after I tried an upload. Then I put it to the path they gave, cleared the log and checked after trying an upload and there was no error message so I was confident I got the right path. However, still no exif data
5) I checked the {$Globals['pp_db_prefix']}exif table in MySQL and confirmed it was empty.

I am now at my wit's end...can you help? I have got a testaccount setup

Thanks

[Chuck S]

Have you tried compiling your own jhead? Thats the only way I know to get things to work so compile your own copy and use that and you should be fine. The hosts is most likely not working. Make sure to download the source and compile your own. This does require ssh access to the server

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

[dayo]

I have been bugging my host's support and boy, are they clueless!

First one of them gives me paths to jpegtran and jhead. PP finds both binaries but jhead doesn't work so I get back in touch telling them they need to recompile it. Now, another one gets back to me saying they do not support jhead and I need to make a case for them to install it.

Funny, they always did have jhead (I know this) but only recently changed server systems which is when it went kibosh. In any case, checking the error log shows that there is a jhead binary on their server.

Driving me nuts!

[Chuck S]

yeah they need to fix the server