[ansel] Help with Ansel Install
John H. Bennett III
bennettj at thebennetthome.com
Thu Dec 31 22:11:06 UTC 2009
Quoting "Michael J. Rubinsky" <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
> Quoting "John H. Bennett III" <bennettj at thebennetthome.com>:
>
>> Quoting Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting "John H. Bennett III" <bennettj at thebennetthome.com>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting "Michael J. Rubinsky" <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Quoting "John H. Bennett III" <bennettj at thebennetthome.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried installing Ansel today and have run into some issues
>>>>>> trying to get it to work. I'm using horde 3.3.6 with ansel
>>>>>> 1.1, and other current stable horde components. I have php
>>>>>> 4.3.9. This is running under SME Server which runs on CentOS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can get it installed, create a gallery, and upload photos.
>>>>>> When looking at the gallery, I have an image placeholder with
>>>>>> a red X. Looking at my logs, I see a lot of this:
>>>>>> Dec 30 21:31:32 www HORDE[10553]: [ansel] Unable to open VFS
>>>>>> file. [pid 10553 on line 2257 of
>>>>>> "/home/httpd/html/horde/ansel/lib/Ansel.php"]
>>>>>> Dec 30 21:31:32 www HORDE[10553]: [ansel] Unable to open VFS
>>>>>> file. [pid 10553 on line 2736 of
>>>>>> "/home/httpd/html/horde/ansel/lib/Ansel.php"]
>>>>>> Dec 30 21:31:32 www HORDE[10553]: [ansel] Unable to open VFS
>>>>>> file. [pid 10553 on line 45 of
>>>>>> "/home/httpd/html/horde/ansel/img/prettythumb.php"]
>>>>>> Dec 30 21:31:33 www HORDE[10618]: [ansel] Unable to open VFS
>>>>>> file. [pid 10618 on line 2257 of
>>>>>> "/home/httpd/html/horde/ansel/lib/Ansel.php"]
>>>>>> Dec 30 21:31:33 www HORDE[10618]: [ansel] Unable to open VFS
>>>>>> file. [pid 10618 on line 2736 of
>>>>>> "/home/httpd/html/horde/ansel/lib/Ansel.php"]
>>>>>> Dec 30 21:31:33 www HORDE[10618]: [ansel] Unable to open VFS
>>>>>> file. [pid 10618 on line 45 of
>>>>>> "/home/httpd/html/horde/ansel/img/prettythumb.php"]
>>>>>> Dec 30 21:31:33 www HORDE[10538]: [ansel] Unable to open VFS
>>>>>> file. [pid 10538 on line 2257 of
>>>>>> "/home/httpd/html/horde/ansel/lib/Ansel.php"]
>>>>>> Dec 30 21:31:33 www HORDE[10538]: [ansel] Unable to open VFS
>>>>>> file. [pid 10538 on line 2736 of
>>>>>> "/home/httpd/html/horde/ansel/lib/Ansel.php"]
>>>>>> Dec 30 21:31:33 www HORDE[10538]: [ansel] Unable to open VFS
>>>>>> file. [pid 10538 on line 44 of
>>>>>> "/home/httpd/html/horde/ansel/img/mini.php"]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I have missed a step or messed something up. I used this
>>>>>> linke as my reference,
>>>>>> http://www.horde.org/ansel/docs/?f=INSTALL.html. My test.php
>>>>>> info show:
>>>>>> Ansel Version
>>>>>> Ansel: H3 (1.1)
>>>>>> Other Horde Applications
>>>>>> horde: Yes (Version: 3.3.6)
>>>>>> agora: No
>>>>>> Agora provides the ability for users to comment on images.
>>>>>> PHP Version
>>>>>> PHP Version: 4.3.9
>>>>>> PHP Major Version: 4.3
>>>>>> PHP Minor Version: 9
>>>>>> PHP Version Classification: release
>>>>>> You are running a supported version of PHP.
>>>>>> PHP Module Capabilities
>>>>>> GD Support: Yes
>>>>>> Imagick Library: No
>>>>>> Ansel can make use of the Imagick Library, if it is installed
>>>>>> on your system. It is highly recommended to use either
>>>>>> ImageMagick's convert utility or the Imagick php library for
>>>>>> faster results.
>>>>>> Zip Support: No
>>>>>> Ansel can make use of PHP's Zip extension for more efficiently
>>>>>> processing uploaded ZIP files..
>>>>>> OpenCV Library: No
>>>>>> Ansel can make use of the OpenCV PHP extension for
>>>>>> automatically detecting human faces in images. You need
>>>>>> either this library or the one immediately below to detect
>>>>>> human faces.
>>>>>> Facedetect Face Detection Library: No
>>>>>> Ansel can make use of the Facedetect PHP extension for
>>>>>> automatically detecting human faces in images. You need either
>>>>>> OpenCV (above) or Facedetect to detect human faces.
>>>>>> Puzzle Library: No
>>>>>> Ansel can make use of the libpuzzle PHP extension for finding
>>>>>> similar images based on image content.
>>>>>> Ansel Configuration Files
>>>>>> config/conf.php: Yes
>>>>>> config/prefs.php: Yes
>>>>>> PEAR Modules
>>>>>> PEAR Search Path (PHP's include_path):
>>>>>> /home/httpd/html/horde/lib:/usr/share/pear-addons:/usr/share/pear
>>>>>> PEAR: Yes
>>>>>> Recent PEAR: Yes
>>>>>> MDB2: Yes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My conf.php:
>>>>>> <?php
>>>>>> /* CONFIG START. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN OR AFTER THIS LINE. */
>>>>>> // $Horde: ansel/config/conf.xml,v 1.49.2.11 2009-06-15
>>>>>> 17:13:38 mrubinsk Exp $
>>>>>> $conf['gallery']['downloadzip'] = false;
>>>>>> $conf['gallery']['customlabel'] = true;
>>>>>> $conf['menu']['print'] = true;
>>>>>> $conf['menu']['apps'] = array();
>>>>>> $conf['images']['type'] = 'horde';
>>>>>> $conf['vfs']['src'] = 'php';
>>>>>> $conf['image']['type'] = 'jpeg';
>>>>>> $conf['image']['autogen'] = '1';
>>>>>> $conf['image']['prettythumbs'] = true;
>>>>>> $conf['image']['num_uploads'] = '5';
>>>>>> $conf['thumbnail']['perpage'] = '30';
>>>>>> $conf['thumbnail']['width'] = '150';
>>>>>> $conf['thumbnail']['height'] = '150';
>>>>>> $conf['screen']['width'] = '800';
>>>>>> $conf['screen']['height'] = '600';
>>>>>> $conf['ecard']['enable'] = true;
>>>>>> $conf['comments']['allow'] = 'never';
>>>>>> $conf['ansel_cache']['usecache'] = false;
>>>>>> $conf['tags']['relatedtags'] = false;
>>>>>> $conf['report_content']['driver'] = false;
>>>>>> $conf['ages']['limits'] = array();
>>>>>> $conf['ages']['hook'] = false;
>>>>>> $conf['faces']['driver'] = 'user';
>>>>>> $conf['faces']['search'] = '7';
>>>>>> /* CONFIG END. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN OR BEFORE THIS LINE. */
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> According to your settings, you've told Ansel to use the same
>>>>> VFS settings that you have setup for Horde overall. What
>>>>> driver did you choose to use for VFS in Horde's config?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> mike
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> The Horde Project (www.horde.org)
>>>>> mrubinsk at horde.org
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have it set to /tmp.
>>>>
>>>> horde's conf.php
>>>> $conf['vfs']['params']['vfsroot'] = '/tmp';
>>>> $conf['vfs']['type'] = 'file';
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Check to be sure that /tmp is readable and writable by the
>>> webserver user. Also, check inside the /tmp directory and see if
>>> you can find /tmp/.horde/ansel/, this should contain lots of
>>> numbered directories, which in turn contain the images. If that
>>> fails, watch the webserver and/or horde log while you are
>>> *uploading* the images to be sure they are saved correctly.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> mike
>>>
>>> --
>>> The Horde Project (www.horde.org)
>>> mrubinsk at horde.org
>>>
>>> "Time just hates me. That's why it made me an adult." - Josh Joplin
>>>
>>
>> Yes, /tmp is writeabe by the webserver user. I see other files
>> there with the webserver users name. Would /tmp be the place where
>> all of my photos would be stored?
>
> Yes. The VFS (Virtual File System) is what ansel uses to store the
> uploaded, original images, as well as all the server-generated
> images used for thumbnails, previews, etc... If you don't want those
> to be stored under /tmp then you should change that setting to a
> more appropriate place.
>
> If so, I don't think I want that. I also
>> don't have a /tmp/.horde/ansel directory. I only a directory
>> called scheduler.
>
> If you don't have .horde under the /tmp directory, then there *is* a
> problem with the webserver creating a directory and/or file under
> /tmp. Possibly a permissions error, or maybe safe_mode or
> open_basedir or similar restriction?
>
>>
>> My webserver logs show:
>> [Thu Dec 31 09:25:52 2009] [error] [client 10.10.10.125] File does
>> not exist: /.../horde/ansel/themes/graphics/arrow_switch.png,
>> referer:
>> https://www.thebennetthome2.com/horde/ansel/view.php?gallery=3&view=Gallery&havesearch=0&slug=
>> [Thu Dec 31 09:25:52 2009] [error] [client 10.10.10.125] File does
>> not exist: /.../horde/ansel/themes/graphics/loading.gif, referer:
>> https://www.thebennetthome2.com/horde/ansel/view.php?gallery=3&view=Gallery&havesearch=0&slug=
>>
>> Those two files really don't exist
>
> Those paths don't look right to me. Those files exist in CVS, not
> sure why you have those extra /../ in front of your path. If you
> look at /horde/ansel/themes/graphics you should see those images. If
> not, you can obtain them from cvs.horde.org or from the tarball.
>
I put in the extra ... to hide my true path, thinking that it wasn't
really needed. Sorry for the confustion.
>> I just changed the Ansel VFS to SQL and my file upload was
>> successfull and I can see my photos, so that will give me the
>> ability to play around with this.
>>
>> The only other thing I see is when I click on my gallery, the sort
>> photos button has a red X instead of the icon.
>
> The 'sort' image is the arrow_switch.png file listed above as not
> found, yes, it isn't being displayed since the webserver cannot find
> it. You can try changing Horde themes to Silver Surfer or Tango, as
> those themes also have separate graphics as well.
>
>> Mike, thanks for taking the time to help me. I'll have to work out
>> the VFS file setting and see if I can get that to work and if that
>> is a better solution than using SQL. Anyother tips, tricks, hints,
>> for taking advantage and using Ansel?
>
> Well, since you asked.... I noticed that you are using GD for image
> generation. You will get *much* better looking results by using
> either convert (from ImageMagick) or by using the Imagick PHP
> extension (which is actually built against the Imagemagick
> libraries). Most of the fancy thumbnail effects like drop-shadows,
> polaroid looking images and image "stacks" etc... will either not
> work at all under GD or not look as good. Just make sure you have
> the Imagemagick package installed on your server, then put the path
> to the "convert" utility in Horde's "Image Handling" config tab.
I will do that and start a new thread if I run into other issues or
neeed more assistance.
I did change my VFS back to a file location and am now at least
getting the .horde/ansel directories created, so there appears to be
some permission problems with my /tmp directory. From the things I
run on the server, the current permissions only seem to mess up Ansel.
> --
> Thanks,
> mike
>
> --
Again thanks,
John Bennett
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