Make sure that not only /run/media/smart/richmonds/ but also down to /run/media/smart/richmonds/mainfolder/pictures/upload and /run/media/smart/richmonds/mainfolder/pictures/galleries and further down all directories are accessible to the web server user.

No, not needed as long as directories and files under galleries are at least readable by the web server user (wwwrun for your case?) and also writeable under uploads.

You mentioned you replaced also _data, does that replacement and all entries under it have full access permissions for the web server? rwx for directories and rw for files (note that 777 is almost never needed and likely your rwx for other users in your examples is superfluous, see also [Forum, post 183419 by erAck in topic 31993] What are the correct permissions for Piwigo files and directories ?).

Any feedback about my permissions problems and the fact I cannot add photos with using symbolic Link??

Below means Symbolic link is not working.

The Check Files Integrity PLUGIN

galleries/index.php is missing



lrwxrwxrwx  1 wwwrun www    56 Jan 26 16:10 galleries -> /run/media/smart/richmonds/mainfolder/pictures/galleries

ls /srv/www/htdocs/piwigo/galleries>

-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www 610 Dec 20 12:07 index.php

/srv/www/htdocs/piwigo/galleries> cat index.php

<?php
// +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// | This file is part of Piwigo.                                          |
// |                                                                       |
// | For copyright and license information, please view the COPYING.txt    |
// | file that was distributed with this source code.                      |
// +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

// Recursive call
$url = '../';
header( 'Request-URI: '.$url );
header( 'Content-Location: '.$url );
header( 'Location: '.$url );
exit();
?>

Last edited by linuxisthebom (2025-01-28 06:55:23)

Found my fault within my Opensuse Forum
Lesson Learned . With External Hard Drive Symbolic Link can only work when Hard Drive is mounted in fstab.
With all my searching no one tells you that instruction. Within the fact that's it's a USB connected Drive.