[support] switching away from image module

[Cog Rusty]

On 8/30/07, Jean Gazis <jgazis at gmail.com> wrote:
> These are the problems I'm having with images on one site: the images,
> thumbnails, and previews are in the files/images directory. They are in a
> gallery, but in the gallery view it shows all the info, but does not show
> the actual image at any size. The individual image node view is the same.
> When I inserted the images into other page nodes, some appear and some
> don't, but I can't see any difference between them.
>
> http://urbanorganic.jeangazis.com/node/2 contains:
>  <img src="/files/ur1/images/red-williams-pears.jpg" class="framert"
> alt="red pears">
>
> http://urbanorganic.jeangazis.com/node/1 contains:
> <img src="/files/ur1/images/1-basil.jpg" class="framert" alt="fresh basil">
>
> The first image is visible, the second shows the alt text or a missing icon
> depending on the browser. I can't figure out what's different. I did not
> change any settings in the image module, and resetting to defaults just in
> case didn't do anything.

When opening the images directly with the browser, the first one works
but the second one gives a Drupal "page not found" page.

The latter means that the RewriteCond in Drupal's .htaccess was unable
to find a real file there and proceeded to let Drupal handle that URL.

So, apache can't read the 1-basil.jpg file. If the file is there, then
it is probably a file permissions problem.


> In addition, when I tried to use the "image import" feature, it made
> duplicate copies of the thumbnail and preview and put them back in the
> original directory where it was importing _from_.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jean
>
> On 8/28/07, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail at webthatworks.it> wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:23:20 -0400
> > "Jean Gazis" <jgazis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I also have a site where I really need it to be easy for users to
> > > upload photos, and it doesn't look like imagefield and imagecache
> > > are the answer to that, either. I might try one of the gallery
> > > mods. I've only used the gallery that comes with image.
> >
> > I'm using it with 5.2... I used it with 4.5 or 4.7 and uploaded some
> > hundreds of images with no problem.
> > Yep... the upload part is hard to fine tune (permissions? quota?
> > taxonomy?)
> > So your main problem was uploads and erratic behaviour, is it?
> >
> > > So it seems like the module has a reputation for being buggy, and
> > > is going wrong for me in more than one way, so I'm interested in
> > > alternatives. I'd prefer that they don't require custome theming,
> > > though, because I haven't gotten into that yet.
> >
> > Well my problem was css were scattered in gallery2, block, gallery
> > etc... and having something that look good in drupal *and* in gallery
> > as a stand alone app was not that fun + some repetition not perfect
> > integration in "messages".
> > I'm not saying that it was terribly hard or impossible... just it was
> > boring and I think hard to maintain.
> >
> > My concern is that while I find positive Image module looks like a
> > page node... maybe it looks like a page node too much, users should
> > have "less" freedom.
> >
> > Just first impression... actually I was interested in your opinion to
> > standarize/invest in one module to build up galleries.
> >
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> > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
> > http://www.webthatworks.it
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