Phoca Forum

I have Joomla 1.5 and Phoca Gallery 2 installed.
I have followed the installation instructions to the letter, and have have received notification that the installation worked correctly and that the GD library was working. (I have also checked on the site's control panel that the GD libraries are enabled in php and have tested them with PhotoGallery (Standalone photo system).
I have created menu links in Joomla, I have uploaded images successfully to the /phocagallery/ directory and sub diretories using the frontend, the backend from the PhocalGallery CP and also using FTP. I have created categories successfully and loaded images to those categories.

However, I cannot ever see / view / look at any of the images I have uploaded using PhocaGallery.
When I press the delete / recreate thumnail for any image under the Images menu - it says that is has done so.
When I click on any image in a category or from the frontend menu items - I do not see any images. The thumbnails are also blank.
I have set all directory permissions to 777.
Any ideas?

Check out your global parameters to see whether or not 'automatic thumbnail creation' is on.

Check out your on your server if there's a folder 'thumbs' in the folder of your phocagallery images.

You could try to set the automatic thumbnail creation to on and delete the 'thumbs' folder. Then PhocaGallery should automatically create the new thumbs

I hope this helps,

Carolien

I think I found the root casue of this.
During the installation process the phocagallery directory was properly created in the images directory of the website.
It also appears to have created a sub-directory off that called --7d5d into which pictures were being loaded.
I am pretty sure I did not create such a directory however (this is a meaningless / random sort of name for a photogallery!!).
Although the Phocagallery application was able to manipulate files in those directories and correctly display their details etc in images, the webserver itself could not serve files in those directories to http clients.
Furthermore the thumbs directory was created but only had an index.htm in it and no thumbnail images.
I tracked this error down by trying to load the images directly into the browser using the full url to the actual .jpg images.