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[extension by ddtddt] Metadata Open Graph

Hi,

piwigo release ?

Another week of trying and still getting nowhere.
In desperation I decided to update to version  16.1.0 but this hasn't helped and I've run out of ideas.
I assume I should be looking at logs but I have no idea where to look or what to do when I find them.

As my last posting, I looked for meta_og but all I could find was meta, which I added and which activated OK but didn't solve my problem. Over the last few weeks I have added 12 plugins (now deactivated) and had no issues with any of them, only Meta Open Graph.

AI has suggested the issue is within the plugin itself, it suggested the following, but it's beyond my capabilities:
"To resolve this, ensure that any descriptions used within the plugin do not contain unescaped HTML tags or quotes. If the issue persists, check the plugin's source code, particularly in main.inc.php, for potential fixes related to handling data types."

ddtddt wrote:

Hi

php release ?

Environment:
Piwigo 16.1.0 Check for upgrade
Installed on 8 July 2023, 2 years 4 months 4 weeks ago
Operating system: Linux
PHP: 8.3.6 (Show info) [2025-12-05 18:28:14]
MySQL: 8.0.44-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 [2025-12-05 18:28:14]
Graphics Library: External ImageMagick 6.9.12-98
Cache size 13144.04 MB   calculated right now Refresh

1) Filezilla will not connect with FTP, it times out. (It does connect to other machines OK). Do I need to install something on the piwigo machine to get ftp working? (I tried installing vsftpd but no change)
2) So I logged in locally to the piwigo machine and at the cmd prompt typed "sudo rm -r meta_og" (it deleted OK).
3) On my main PC, I downloaded and unzipped the file from this page "https://piwigo.org/ext/index.php?eid=889", is it the right one?
4) but without a GUI and FTP I don't know how to copy it to /var/www/piwigo/plugins
5) so I re-installed it using the piwigo plugins page, but it still gives me the same error if I try to activate it
6) there is also a "meta" plugin available, do I need both (I tried but no change)

I apologise for my lack of Linux and commands, it's hard.

-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 15193 Dec  7 16:47 admin.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 12314 Dec  7 16:47 admin.tpl
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec  7 17:21 include
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   146 Dec  7 16:47 index.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  9460 Dec  7 16:47 initadmin.php
drwxr-xr-x 28 www-data www-data  4096 Dec  7 17:21 language
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 11983 Dec  7 16:47 main.inc.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  4189 Dec  7 16:47 maintain.class.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  4010 Dec  7 16:47 mog_adminphoto.tpl
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data    18 Dec  7 16:47 obsolete.list
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   118 Dec  7 16:47 pem_metadata.txt

./include:
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 2006 Dec  7 16:47 function.mog.inc.php

More attempts, but not really knowing what I'm doing,
I tried to enable logs by adding these lines using the LocalFiles Editor plugin:
$conf['log_level'] = 'DEBUG';
$conf['show_php_errors'] = E_ALL;
$conf['show_php_errors_on_frontend'] = true;

But nothing showed up on the front end, and the log file meant nothing to me.
The log.txt file did include these strange lines,
[2025-12-09 23:03:33][exec=S9MOLCJu3I]  [DEBUG] get_regular_search_results 0 items in $unsorted_items
[2025-12-09 23:03:33][exec=ai9AOvAEhw]  [INFO]  attempt to see the name of the tag #216, #286, #803, #3158 from the address : 192.168.1.201
[2025-12-09 23:03:38][exec=XQmTKny8LA]  [DEBUG] [search]        get_regular_search_results

I say "strange" because 192.168.1.201 is the address of my self-hosted DNS server!
Is the plugin trying to do a DNS lookup and failing?