My Zeninstall works if I leave external_album_folder set to NULL, but I'd really like my photos outside the software directory. I left "album_folder" set to the default "/albums/" and changed external_album_folder to point to a directory writable by the apache user. When I have this set and I upload photos they seem to upload ok, but never show up in the album or gallery, they only show up in the cache. I'm not getting any errors in error_log, it just seems to drop the new albums and images into bit bucket

Specifically the settings I have are:
$conf['album_folder'] = '/albums/';
$conf['external_album_folder'] = '/var/www/data/zenphoto';

And zenphoto is writable.

Thanks,
-pdm

Is it possible to see your site? Might be able to help better if we can look at the error messages from the image processor. Thanks!

Well, it turns out you need a trailing slash at the end of the directory there.

$conf['external_album_folder'] = '/var/www/data/zenphoto';

is invalid (it needs to be $conf['external_album_folder'] = '/var/www/data/zenphoto/' , well it works but it is not what you would expect. It creates zenphototest zenphototesting zenphotofoo folders. Added on a trailing / and it works now. Without the trailing slash the images never showed up on the web page though, so one part of the code must be assuming that is a directory path, and another part, not checking for trailing slash is using it as a prefix.

You may want to add a check for that, I think the without slash behavior is unexpected.

Thanks,

Actually, a simpler solution would be to never assume a trailing slash. E.g. get_image($conf['external_album_folder'].'/'.$image_name). An extra forward slash should be ignored, thus saving a few cycles for a string compare.

It's a couple cycles once per load (since it's cached (or at least it is now)), so shouldn't be a big deal, in favor of making the path more correct.

Done and checked in to SVN.