Relative newbie here. I've had no trouble uploading photos to my regular weblog, but I'm having a hard time setting up a photoblog. I'm using the quixotic pixels tutorial and having 2 major problems:

1) what is the output supposed to be for the sidebar and littlepicture templates?

2) why can't I see my pictures? I followed the tutorial on quixotic pixels, double-checked the preferences were correct, uploading pictures into the category I created in my local site path, then pasting the URL into the extended entry box, but the pictures don't show up. Here's the site:

www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos

Could my configurations be wrong? Right now, the local site path is:

food.planetmusicfes.com/photos

and the URL is:

www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos

the local archive path is the same as the local site path, and the URL of the archives is:

www.food.planetmusicfes.com/archives
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I tried using Blogstyles tutorial as well, and had the same problem-- no pictures show up. I double checked to make sure I had done all the configurations as the tutorials requested... I think something must be pointing in the wrong direction but I'm not sure what the problem is. Help!

Please help, anyone with photoblog skills! I really can't figure this out. I deleted the new weblog, erased the contents of the related folders on my server, then tried to follow the whole tutorial over from the beginning. Same thing happened. No visible pictures.

Rachelita, please don't panic - we can help you solve your problem, but these forums are staffed by volunteers; just because someone doesn't answer your question overnight doesn't mean it won't get answered, it means people were sleeping

It looks like your photoblog is set up fairly close to what it needs to be - are you putting the main picture URL in the extended entry field? Are you leaving off the file extension?

The reason your pictures may not be showing up is their paths are incorrect, not necessarily your weblog paths. Are you using MT to upload and create your thumbnails?

As for your weblog paths, my understanding of subdomain local site paths is that they work like this:

/home/username/public_html/site_name/subdomain/subdirectory

so your local site path may need some tweaking because it looks incomplete; you'll also want to look at your URL in Weblog Config; MT asks that you enter the http:// too.

Does that help?

Donna

Thanks, Donna!

I'm still not able to get it working. I tried uploading a photo both to the local site path AND the local archive path, just to see if one or the other would work. When I upload the picture as a thumbnail, all the code is there, and the picture shows up in a preview-- it's just when I place the URL for the photo alone, minus the JPG extension, in the extended entry box, nothing shows up.

I checked my site paths, but I can't figure out where I'm making the mistake. I added "archives" to the archive paths, to see if that made a difference. If my local site path is:

www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos

and the URL is the same, and if my archive files are now

www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos/archives

what am I getting wrong? Both URL's do contain http://.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Well, your local site paths should not contain "www" That's the thing that starts with "/home...mentioned above - if you're not sure what it is, your hosting provider can help you figure it out.

As an example, for my photoblog, the local site path is

/home/nammer/public_html/click

and the URL is

http://www.deliriouscool.org/click/

When you upload a photo using MT, it automagically includes your URL in the path (you specified it in Weblog Config), so if you wanted to upload photos into a subdirectory called "images," you wouldn't type http://www.your-site.com/images when uploading, just "/images" That might be the problem...

Does that help?

Donna

The local site paths don't contain www. Sorry about that! I meant that the URL matches the site path in terms of where it seems to be pointing... Local site paths are:

home/nour/food.planetmusicfes.com/photos

and local archive paths are:

/home/nour/food.planetmusicfes.com/photos/archives

The site URL is

http://www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos

and the archive URL is

http://www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos/archives
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This has worked fine for the other weblogs I've created within my own website-- and like I said, when I upload a photo through MT in this new weblog, it gives the proper code and the picture does show up as a preview, but when I cut everything except "html://food.planetmusicfes.com/photos/henna" and paste it into my extended entry, nothing shows up...

I also am not typing the whole address in when uploading-- I 'm just uploading it to either local site path or local directory, though I also tried creating categories and uploading to those as well... and that didn't work, either.

I like your website, by the way. But I'm confused about what you mean by the "public_html" which appears in your path... I don't seem to have that, or understand exactly what that means.

I'm confused now - you can't just paste html://food.planetmusicfes.com/photos/henna into your entry, and expect an image to show up from that.

That address is the URL given me by MT when I upload the photo as a thumbnail... I follow the instructions for the quixotic pixels tutorial, uploading the photos as a thumbnail, entering the dimensions, selecting "embedded," and then I get a new entry opening with the code. (When I preview it thus far, it's like a normal entry-- the photo does appear.) As per the tutorial's instructions, I then select the image source URL from the code MT has given me, (http://www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos/henna) minus JPG and everything else surrounding it, and paste it into the extended entry field. That's when it disappears and doesn't show up on the website...

Okay I see now.

If you FTP to your site and look in the "photos" folder, do you see any of these images there?

Thanks for helping, girlie.

At the moment, I'm just trying to upload one photo, "henna," to the new site. When I FTP to my site, the photo I've uploaded is there, along with a thumbnail. It's in several places, I guess because I keep trying to upload it to a different place in the hopes one will work. As I said, it shows up when I leave the code just as MT has uploaded it, but when I move just the URL down to Extended Entry, removing its JPG extension, it disappears.

My photoblog folder, "photos," is within my main weblog folder, food.planetmusicfes.com. Both the henna.jpg photo and its thumbnail are in the "photos" folder, and within that, they're also in a "categories" folder as well as in an "archives" folder. (since I've tried uploading both to local site path and local archive path).

I had the same problem with the blogstyles tutorial as well-- everything goes fine until the final step, and then suddenly, no photo.

Thanks for helping, girlie.

At the moment, I'm just trying to upload one photo, "henna," to the new site. When I FTP to my site, the photo I've uploaded is there, along with a thumbnail. It's in several places, I guess because I keep trying to upload it to a different place in the hopes one will work. As I said, it shows up when I leave the code just as MT has uploaded it, but when I move just the URL down to Extended Entry, removing its JPG extension, it disappears.

My photoblog folder, "photos," is within my main weblog folder, food.planetmusicfes.com. Both the henna.jpg photo and its thumbnail are in the "photos" folder, and within that, they're also in a "categories" folder as well as in an "archives" folder. (since I've tried uploading both to local site path and local archive path).

I had the same problem with the blogstyles tutorial as well-- everything goes fine until the final step, and then suddenly, no photo.

There has to be some reason why the URLs give 404 errors:

http://www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos/...henna-thumb.jpg

http://www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos/henna.jpg

If you manually upload the jpgs via FTP in BINARY mode to the photos folder, can you see them then?

Thanks! "public_html" is the public folder of my web directory; some hosting providers call it "www" - you can think of it as "the directory that's visible to the world at large".

I'm curious to hear the answer to girlie's question...

I tried manually uploading the photo from my hard drive via FTP into the photos folder, switching from auto to binary. The FTP program recognized the existing "henna.jpg" already there and asked if I wanted to overwrite it. I did so, but still got the 404 error on the site.

Could there be a problem with my archives needing to be somewhere else? Currently they're within the "photos" folder as well.

No, it shouldn't matter where your archives folder is.

I found one instance of the picture here:

http://www.food.planetmusicfes.com/henna.JPG

No 404 error on that one.

I can't figure this one out at all.

There's no 404 error on that one because it's on my main website, where it seems to work!

Hmm, I wonder if I should just delete the whole weblog along with its folders, and start again from zero...

Thanks for your input!

Rachelita, how about the permissions on those directories, "photos" and "archives" - are they set to 777? I'm stumped, but I'm not giving up!

Donna

aha! Actually, they were set to 755. I changed them all to 777 from the FTP. I then tried to upload the picture again but the same thing happened!

Does your image actually have an uppercase extension of .JPG instead of .jpg? Browsers might not be recognizing it because the templates for both blogstyles and qp's photoblogs are <$MTEntryMore$>.jpg to display the image.

Kristine

YAY KRISTINE!!!

You so rock:

http://www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos/henna.JPG

Whoomp, there it is!!

Heh. I'll bet a million dollars, that's it! You rock, Kristine. So, Rachelita....how's it look?

Donna

Wooo!!! I suppose I should have hunted around to see if I could find the images with .JPG to know for sure, huh?!! Thanks, G, I'm glad it really is there!

~she who rocks

Yay! That was the problem!

Thank you so much, Kristine! I never in a million years would have been able to figure that out.

I looked through all the templates and changed .jpg to JPG, and then my first picture on the photoblog became visible. Voila: www.food.planetmusicfes.com/photos. I'm thrilled! A million thanks!!!

Thanks to all who helped to solve this problem! I'm surprised it hasn't come up before, for users of MT... Thank you thank you thank you!

I'm glad that worked!

You might double check that images with .JPG work in all browsers -- I know that the more recent ones work, but older ones might only display .jpg and .gif rather than there uppercase versions.

Kristine

I should have wandered in here yesterday - I had this same problem with the photoblog and spent a bit of hairpulling before figuring it out. When I saw this post that uppercase JPG was the first thing I thought of. My camera defaults to uppercase when taking pics, so I have to change that before uploading.

Well done you guys!