erAck,
Thanks for your reply. I thought that this would lead me to my fix. But not so far. I had interpreted the Directory to be the the Target Directory inside Piwigo. There are several terms in their documentation as I copied below. Its states the Path Name to the top of the Album Tree. I assume Album Tree is my Albums within Piwigo or the Target Directory. The pictures and Albums are stored in MySQL database. Not sure in my Ubuntu OS, using SQL that you refer to the actual file.


–directory=“my photos directory” is the full or relative Path Name to the top of the Album Tree. (If the top directory contains spaces, surround it in double quotes)

In my piwigo.conf file, I found the entry: DocumentRoot: /var/www/html/piwigo. I figured this is what I needed for the target directory.  This did not work.

Going back to their documentation it states:'
Starting with a specified directory, this and all the sub-directories in the tree structure are written as albums in Piwigo with all their JPEG images and Descriptions. And then for Windows, Use “cd” to change to an appropriate directory

I made a folder at my root or C:\FamilyHome that has 2 sub folders containing my sample pictures to import to Piwigo. So I change to that Windows folder.  See my sample script and its execution:

C:\FamilyHome>perl piwigo_import_tree.pl --base_url=http://marisfamily.ddns.net:3080/piwigo/ --user=DaleMaris --password=????????? --directory=FamilyHome
Can't stat FamilyHome: No such file or directory
at piwigo_import_tree.pl line 121.

I did cover up my password not to expose my password on this form. In the perl code at line 121I found the statement: find({wanted => \&add_to_piwigo, no_chdir => 1}, $album_dir);

I do not know perl and how to interpret this statement, but assume the variable $album_dir is what I do not have defined correctly. I wonder if the error message, "Can't stat" should be can't start?

I also noted If your Piwigo gallery is hosted on Piwigo.com, use settings: --directory="my photos directory"
That sure does not look like a path.

Appreciate any and all help.  Thank You

Dale Maris

Sorry, you did not say it was the target, that is my assumptions from me reading the statement in the documentation.  I did run my script with your suggestion and here is the results:

C:\FamilyHome>perl piwigo_import_tree.pl --base_url=http://marisfamily.ddns.net:3080/piwigo/ --user=DaleMaris --password=?????? --directory=/home/user/Pictures
Can't stat /home/user/Pictures: No such file or directory
at piwigo_import_tree.pl line 121.

Next, since my photo to load to Piwigo is located at C:FamilyHome I also tried, first --directory=FamilyHome which didn't work so tonight I used:


C:\FamilyHome>perl piwigo_import_tree.pl --base_url=http://marisfamily.ddns.net:3080/piwigo/ --user=DaleMaris --password=?????? --directory=/FamilyHome
album "" must be created
cannot open file "/.piwigo_import_tree.txt" for writing at piwigo_import_tree.pl line 515.

Thanks, I got through one more issue. I have an album at the root level named FamilyHome that I  thought might be used for people to load pictures. I don't see and number for the "-–parent_album_id=NN" I used the Album name "FamilyHome" but that did not work.

Don't know how to determine the Parent Album ID?

erAck, I do appreciate your help.  Dale

Here is the ink to my Piwigo website: http://marisfamily.ddns.net:3080/piwigo

Sorry I am so slow. Thank you for all your help. As you can see I have a lot to learn. I am an old Database Admin from the IBM mainframe days, so much of this is new to me.

Thanks  Dale