I did mean to say "text" instead of "test" in the title.

Thought it might provide some clarification to show the results I'm getting.  Here is an image of my display screen when trying to view an album.  I have checked and there are jpg files in the folder named "upload" that are the ones I think should be displayed.

Stefan, how are the files names spelled ? Give an example of file name for a photo that cannot be displayed.

I've undertaken a few more experiments and discovered something of interest.

First, I installed Piwigo on my hosting service, which uses something called Softaculous (?spelling) to do the installation.  It seems to work fine (as expected).  In that, no problem uploading photos to albums and having them displayed (as pictures).  Then I migrated this instance of Piwigo to my Windows computer used for testing with XAMPP.  The photos previously uploaded continued to be displayed (as pictures).  Next, uploaded some more pictures (i.e., on my Windows test computer) and the problem I previously experienced that triggered this post reappeared.  Note:  My Windows computer was doing this with XAMPP Version 8.2.12.

One reason for using my own computer for testing is that I can run different versions of XAMPP, several of which are readily available.  Therefore, I migrated this instance of Piwigo to XAMPP Version 7.4.33.  Bingo now it works correctly.

One more experiment consisted of taking the original Piwigo installation which was initially installed on my test computer using XAMPP 8.2.12 and moving it to XAMPP 7.4.33.  Without doing anything else it seems to work correctly.  In that, I haven't done any thorough testing but the album created and photos uploaded using XAMPP 8.2.12 now display correctly on XAMPP 7.4.33.

Cannot say what's going on here but it does seem that this is an XAMPP problem.  I will plan to post a topic on the XAMPP forum that references this finding.

Last edited by ajax (2024-08-21 17:11:17)

Does it remain this way on every page load or do the images start to appear after a page refresh? If you click the missing photo does it to take you to the main photo page? Is it just displaying no photo on the main album view?

Last edited by raupie (2024-09-02 02:00:09)

Hej,

i've done some investigation into this issue and found a solution, at least as a workaround.

The problem is the check for characters in the given path in "i.php" (its located in the root directory of piwigo). There's a line "preg_match($conf['sync_chars_regex'], $token) or ierror('Invalid chars in request', 400);". I just commented this line, so it is not executed. After that the upload worked fine and i could add and modify my photos.

The regex in field "sync_chars_rege" in variable $conf is created in "config_default.inc.php" in folder "include". There is the hint that this regex only supports ascii. In my pathes and pictures are only ascii-characters. So i'm not sure what the problem is. Maybe the "/", but in this case a lot of users should encounter this issue...

Nevertheless this solution works for me and i'm looking forward to new versions.

Hope that helps
regards
Stefan

It seems I've got the same problem. Some albums in my gallery, like this http://fotky.kuzbici.cz/index.php?/category/385 for example show the thumbnails, but not the photos. The previously mentioned workaround of commenting out a line in i.php does not work for me.