Botched install.......

[Rich Z]

Well I thought I would take the time and do the install myself...

BTW, this is an integration with vBulletin 3.5.x.

Everything seemed rather straightforward once I had my ducks lined up as to what to fill in the blanks. So we were running along smoothly and the install seemed to be done. I got to the point where I opened up the admin panel to enter in my name and password (I assume I use the name and password from by vBulletin setup?).

Crashed and burned with the following error messages:

Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/corvette/public_html/photopost/header-inc.php on line 61

Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/corvette/public_html/photopost/header-inc.php on line 61

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/corvette/public_html/photopost/header-inc.php on line 61

OK, I blew it, but WHERE did I blow it? I double checked the entries in the config files and they appear to be correct to me. Permissions seem OK, and everything appears to be where it is supposed to be. But obviously I did something wrong.....

Help?

[Rich Z]

OK, I fixed this first problem. The install routine thought my vBulletin forum was located at www/photopost/forum rather then www/forum.

But things still aren't working right. The header info from vBulletin is not being transported over to the PhotoPost section. Thinking there must be something in the setup I could fix, I tried to go into the Admin section of PhotoPost. Asked me for my login and password, but just takes me back to the main PhotoPost screen.

Plus whenever I go to the PhotoPost main page, it logs me OUT of my forum!

So obviously something is still screwy there.

So much for me wanting to get my hands dirty with this install........

[Rich Z]

Well, I put install.php back and just ran the install again. Seemed to clean up most of the problems. Don't have the problem with logins as I did before.

Only problem I see now (so far) is that the header is not working correctly. Is not showing my logo graphic from the vBulletin forum style.

Here's the forum URl: http://www.CorvetteFlorida.com/forums

And here's the PhotoPost URL: http://www.corvetteflorida.com/photopost

I'm not sure this is significant, but when I am in the admin section and try the option to edit the header, I get this message:

File being edited: /path/to/php/header.htm

Warning: This file does not exist or is not writable; when you submit this form we will attempt to create this file.
If we are unable to do so (check your path and permissions), then we will notify you of the error.

[Rich Z]

Got another error, this time while trying to upload a few photos.......

Error creating thumbnail! Error code: 1

Command:

"/usr/local/bin/mogrify" +profile "*" -size 160x107 -quality 100 -geometry 160x107 -unsharp 10 '/home/corvette/public_html/photopost/data/504/thumbs/z06_01.jpg'

[Chuck S]

Rich

Okay your posting faster that we can respond

First while using the vbulletin header you dont use the photopost header. As far as your header image in vb your using a relative url to that image so photopost can not find it. Try making the url to your header image full url

as far as uploading switch to gd2 if there is an issue with imagemagick or you can try the edit in this post to remove the +profile statement from the mogrify command.

http://www.photopost.com/forum/showp...87&postcount=2

[Rich Z]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Rich

Okay your posting faster that we can respond

Yeah, I know.

I expect responses to be slow, so I post my questions FIRST then dive into them further. Saves on lag time if I hit the brick wall with figuring out the problem.

Originally Posted by Chuck S

First while using the vbulletin header you dont use the photopost header. As far as your header image in vb your using a relative url to that image so photopost can not find it. Try making the url to your header image full url.

Where do I do this at? It appears that the URL prefix for all of the graphics in the header area are trying to pull the images from the photopost folder rather then the vBulletin forums folder. Here's what I am getting:

http://www.corvetteflorida.com/photopost/images/corvettebanner2.jpg[/url]

This should actually be:
http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/images/corvettebanner2.jpg

So where do I change this so the program knows where the images reside?

Originally Posted by Chuck S

as far as uploading switch to gd2 if there is an issue with imagemagick or you can try the edit in this post to remove the +profile statement from the mogrify command.

Yes, that is what I finally did. I enabled GD2 instead of Imagemagick and that seemed to do the trick with the thumbnails.

Unless I hit something else, it looks like the header problem is the only one I still have outstanding, so if you can give me a heads up on how to fix it, I think I may be out of the woods.

Thanks for your help.

[Chuck S]

In your forum styles admin you would place full urls to the banner and not a relative url.

[Rich Z]

Ahh!. Actually I found I could still use a relative call by using "../forums/" instead.

Thanks!

[Chuck S]

Either one

[Rich Z]

Arghhh! Actually you were right in the first place. With my relative URL, it fails when I view an image and can't find those image files again. So I had to go to the direct URL after all.

Rats..........