Hi :-)

Administration > Tools > Site manager

Admin > Tools > site manager appears to be no longer there in piwigo 13. can you point me to the place where I can change the directory where piwigo stores its photo's?

and don't say symlinks, because location it needs to use is running exfat, so that's not an option in this case.

Last edited by Eis-T (2022-11-15 13:22:38)

Thanks, I've found the option! I misunderstood the function here, as I was looking for a way to change the folder, and I associate the word "site" with website. But of course I now realise that can be the same thing as we're hosting ourselves here.

Unfortunately I immediately ran into the next probem. I'm getting "Directory does not exist [.media/USER/Seagate/server/foto/]" which is strange, because that folder does exist. Is there something with permissions I need to change?

Thank you for the quick answer. I thought this was a way to workaround the restriction of having to use the installation folder as the folder to keep the photo's.

The only thing I want to do is have the photo's stored on an external harddrive, as diskspace is limited om the internal drive. In my mind this shouldn't be a very hard thing to do. The drive is formatted exfat so the solutions I've found in my hours of research (yes, I'm really trying to figure this out myself but I just can't get it to work) with syslinks don't work.

I already mounted the drive in a less problematic place: /storage so we don't have to worry about permissions in user folders.

Thanks again for the quick response! Still wrapping my head around how piwigo works, thanks for your patience with me!
It seems like piwigo just can't see any of the folders, It gives this error message regardless of the path I choose.


https://imgur.com/a/JPfA57G

What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by Eis-T (2022-11-20 00:45:40)

I'm not yet convinced that mounting the drive the piwigo folder (which seems like a odd solution to me, as the standard seems to be to have drives mounted in mnt/ or storage/ ) is the solution and it wouldn't solve the other two folders that I also want to be on the external harddrive: _data and uploads.

The solution I have in mind is to fully uninstall piwigo and do a clean install on the external harddrive. Is there any reason for that not to work? Just asking before I mess things up even further.

Thanks for the reply. As said earlier: symbolic links not being an option is part of the reason I'm here on the forum asking for help. The drive is formatted exfat so symbolic links are not an option unfortunately, and I doubt blind mount is compatible with that filesystem. I'll go with a clean install on the external drive and see if I can get it to work.