I had Zenphot 1.1.6 running perfectly under Xubuntu Linux 2.6.24-19. I have all my pictures on an NTFS mount on another disk available to me on the same server running Zenphoto. I had setup symbolic links from my /var/www/zenphoto/albums directory to sub-directories on the NTFS disk. Each one showed up as a seperate album and that was great. Recently, I've accepted some package updates (not sure which ones now). I noticed all my albums on Zenphoto disappeared although I could access my Zenphoto index page and all my links were intact. I had no luck fixing this.

So I decided to pickup a new daily 1.1.7 build (zenphoto-2008-07-07-trunk.tar) and still have the same behavior. I can't create albums by creating symbolic links from my zenpohto/albums directory :-(

Does anyone have any way to fix this, or what might have changes ? Could it be a permissions/Linux-NTFS(fuse)/etc thing ?

Thanks in advance.

One more thing I tried :

Setting

$conf['external_album_folder'] = '/media/sdb1/Albums/';

in zp-config.php errors out saying :

Error: The 'albums' directory (/media/sdb1/Albums/) cannot be found.

These symptoms are indications that zenphoto does not have access to your drives. That is probably a permissions issue.

another thing you can try is disabling mod_rewrite as a possibility too. for example I had an error with mine and it would display the front page fine but will not drill down. try unchecking the Enable mod_rewrite in the gallery configuration of the admin page.

Thanks guys!

The 'external_album_folder' tag in zp-config.php worked after I setup the umask=000 in my fstab entry for the concerned drive. Lucky I didn't even need to setup my links anymore.