[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Won’t Create Thumbnails / Galleries

  • I am running WP2.5 and NGG 0.93. I have been unable to create a gallery through the interface and also unable to upload images and generate thumbs. If I manually create the wp-content/gallery/xxx and wp-content/gallery/xxx/thumbs folders, it will accept the gallery. However through the interface I always get ‘Unable to create directory’ and ‘Check safe mode’ errors.

    Here is what I have done:
    All folders in wp-content set to 777 permissions
    Modified nggallery.php as follows:

    //define('SAFE_MODE', ini_get('safe_mode'));
  // modded by ME
  define('SAFE_MODE', FALSE);

    Created a php.ini file with safe_mode=FALSE

    Here are my server settings – the memory values should be sufficient:

    # Operating System : Linux
# Server : Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_psoft_traffic/0.2 mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_throttle/3.1.2
# Memory usage : 17.07 MByte
# MYSQL Version : 5.0.51
# SQL Mode : Not set
# PHP Version : 5.2.5
# PHP Safe Mode : On
# PHP Allow URL fopen : On
# PHP Memory Limit : 48M
# PHP Max Upload Size : 100M
# PHP Max Post Size : 100M

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been unable to get this popular plugin to work for over a week now, using both the 0.92 and 0.93 versions. Thanks.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

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  • rainyevening

    (@rainyevening)

    hi. as I have the same problem as in the thread′s title, I hope it′s ok to post here…

    newest WP and NG releases, freshly installed,
    my server′s on safe mode, so I created all folders and thumbs tholders manually, as my NextGen plugin told me, they are on the server, set to 777, but still Next Gen ignores them.

    I get this:
    “The server setting Safe-Mode is on !
    If you have problems, please create directory wp-content/gallery/moebelbau and the thumbnails directory wp-content/gallery/xy/thumbs with permission 777 manually
    Unable to create directory wp-content/gallery/xy/thumbs !”
    but I did ! honestly ! ??

    server settings are these:

    Server Settings
    Operating System : Linux
    Server : Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-5 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_ruby/1.2.6 Ruby/1.8.7(2008-08-11) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
    Memory usage : 9.45 MByte
    MYSQL Version : 5.0.51a-12
    SQL Mode : Not set
    PHP Version : 5.2.6-5
    PHP Safe Mode : On
    PHP Allow URL fopen : On
    PHP Memory Limit : 64M
    PHP Max Upload Size : 16M
    PHP Max Post Size : 32M
    PHP Max Script Execute Time : 30s
    PHP Exif support : Yes ( V1.4 )
    PHP IPTC support : Yes
    PHP XML support : Yes
    GD support
    GD Version : 2.0 or higher
    FreeType Support : Yes
    FreeType Linkage : with freetype
    T1Lib Support : Yes
    GIF Read Support : Yes
    GIF Create Support : Yes
    JPG Support : Yes
    PNG Support : Yes
    WBMP Support : Yes
    XPM Support : No
    XBM Support : No
    JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support : No

    I′m so unhappy, I need some damned galleries, really !
    I already tried lazyest gallery which at least worked somewhat, but why did that work with the safe mode on and NG doesn′t ?!

    any tip is appreciated, and – if I can′t get NG to work – could someone please tell me how to use that built-in gallery with the [gallery] shortcode ? When I click Gallery it always takes me to the NG Gallery page and then problems…to upload images from out of a post doesn′t work, neither flash nor browser upload. can I manually create a folder and ftp-upload images and then use them with the [gallery] ? how must I name the gallery then? or does that only work if I deactivate NextGen ?
    *clueless*
    thanks for any help…

    @rainyevening

    If you still cannot resolve your issue with the existing gallery plugins, you may want to try an alternative:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h3a1XXROKk (Demo)
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/picturesurf-gallery/ (Download)

    Disclosure: I’m one of the people who worked on this plugin.

    Hope this solves your problem.

    Alan

    Go under Gallery>Options>Thumbnail

    Find ‘Set fix dimension’ and uncheck ‘Ignore the aspect ratio, no portrait thumbnails’

    Good luck

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