Problemms with thumbnails creating

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drotik
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Problemms with thumbnails creating

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Hi all,
I have a problem with Phoca Gallery 2.5.4 and 2.5.2 too...
When I want to create thumbnails from original photo, i give allways this report:
Error Message: Phoca Gallery cannot save files on your server
What to do now : » If you have fixed the problem caused by

* Image (wrong type or broken image) - remove the image or upload new image via e.g. FTP
* GD Library (not correctly working GD library, not working GD functions) - install or reinstall GD library
* Permissions (no rights to write files or folders) - change the permissions of image/phocagallery folders on your server,
I give up. I have changed FTP rights to 777 or 755 or another. I have turned the FTP layer ON/OFF. No change. GD library is ON on my hosting server. My hosting says that the folder images/phocagallery on their server is writable only by chmod 777.
When I installed previous ver. 2.0.2. (at the same hosting- http://www.gigahosting.sk) - there was no problem with creating thumbnails from these same photos.
I have tested the Phoca Gallery 2.5.4 on my local ver. of Joomla (XAMP server) - there was no problem.

I don´t understand where the problem is. Please help me.

Thanks, Peter
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Re: Problemms with thumbnails creating

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Same Problem... :(

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Re: Problemms with thumbnails creating

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i do what you write. -> Same Error! Can't create Thumbnails. The Thumbnailcreation option turn automatically of... every time...
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Re: Problemms with thumbnails creating

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Thanks to Jan
Your advice helped me very well. When I changed Security Settings » Folder Permissions from 755 to 777 it began to go right...
My hosting provider said that for write perrmissions only 777 can be, because the server sees me (owner of domain) as "the world"....
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Re: Problemms with thumbnails creating

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Hi there,
I have the same problem and my error msg is:

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Phoca Gallery is creating thumbnail(s) now. Please wait...

Creating of thumbnail 20-new.gif ... Error
(/20-new.gif)

(Re)creating of thumbnails is running now, please wait...
Error Message:	Error while Creating Thumbnails (ThumbnailExists)
What to do now :	» If you have fixed the problem caused by

    * Image (wrong type or broken image) - remove the image or upload new image via e.g. FTP
    * GD Library (not correctly working GD library, not working GD functions) - install or reinstall GD library
    * Permissions (no rights to write files or folders) - change the permissions of image/phocagallery folders on your server,

you can go back to Phoca Gallery. Phoca Gallery will try to create the thumbnails again.
Go to the Phoca Gallery
» You can close this box and solve the problem e.g. in Media Manager or via FTP.
Go to the Phoca Gallery
Is there anyone who can help me?thanks in advance :)

Thanks & Regards
Naved Mohammad
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Re: Problemms with thumbnails creating

Post by naved_pasha06 »

Hi there,
Now there is another error,this time i tried to upload the image by using MULTIPLE ADD but it gave the erroe as given below..

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Phoca Gallery is creating thumbnail(s) now. Please wait...

    Creating of thumbnail 15_07-71.gif ... Error
   (Insulation/15_07-71.gif)

   Creating: 1 from 2 Thumbnail(s)
                (this is an progress bar  image showing has been done) 50 %
Error Message:	The GD function ImageCreateFromGIF doesn't work on your server
What to do now :	» If you have fixed the problem caused by

    * Image (wrong type or broken image) - remove the image or upload new image via e.g. FTP
    * GD Library (not correctly working GD library, not working GD functions) - install or reinstall GD library
    * Permissions (no rights to write files or folders) - change the permissions of image/phocagallery folders on your server,

you can go back to Phoca Gallery. Phoca Gallery will try to create the thumbnails again.
Go to the Phoca Gallery
» If you want to go back to Phoca Gallery and you want that Phoca Gallery will not try to create thumbnails, click on
Go to the Phoca Gallery with disabling the automatic thumbnails creation
You can enable Thumbnails Creating in Default Settings again.
» If you want to fix the problem with help of Media Manager (remove the original image or upload new original image), you can go to the Media Manager.
Go to the Media Manager
» Go to Phoca Gallery User Manual
hoping for a quick and perfect rply...

Thanks & Regards
Naved Mohammad
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Re: Problemms with thumbnails creating

Post by Jan »

Hi, on your server, it seems that the function ImageCreateFromGIF is disabled
The GD function ImageCreateFromGIF doesn't work on your server

It needs to be enabled there.

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Re: Problemms with thumbnails creating

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Error Message:	Phoca Gallery cannot save files on your server
What to do now :	» If you have fixed the problem caused by

    * Image (wrong type or broken image) - remove the image or upload new image via e.g. FTP
    * GD Library (not correctly working GD library, not working GD functions) - install or reinstall GD library
    * Permissions (no rights to write files or folders) - change the permissions of image/phocagallery folders on your server,
I've tried different images. JPG and PNG.
Ive tried chmodding phocagallery/thumbs and found out its set to CHMOD 0 which i cant change using the FTP client as it gives me 550: permissions denied.
I have tried installing phoca galley on the same server in a different joomla and ive walked into the same problem.

This sounds like a server issue. the question is what do i tell my host. i remember having older versions of phoca gallery working fine on the same host.

P.S ive also tried setting the permission parameteer in phoca backend to 777.
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Re: Problemms with thumbnails creating

Post by Jan »

You or your webhoster should:

- check permissions
- check ownership of files and folders (if ftp layer is enabled, then they should have the ownership of ftp)
- check GD settings
- Not recommended but you can try to set 777 (only for testing) for parameters and the main folder, see:
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... ersion-252

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