Jowett Gallery problems again

[Forumadmin]

Received a message today that the Jowett website had been at a high level of php activity and was moved to a probation server to prevent affecting other services. So you may experience degradation of service. Needless to say I have sent the web hosting company a strong reply! We will see what happens.

Thanks to Alistair and Drummond who warned me.

Indeed Jowett Gallery does not work at all as the link is broken in the move.

[Keith Andrews]

Received a message today that the Jowett website had been at a high level of php activity and was moved to a probation server to prevent affecting other services.

Thats is strange, considering jowett is such a niche subject around the world....

Mind you my and other servers are showing a very marked increase in spam, bots and =http kiddie script requests in accesslogs.

[Forumadmin]

I have rebuilt JowettGallery with latest version, just to convince the host admin that I have done something. However although all pictures are there the user login module is not working properly. It does not display your album page. You can get to it if you search for a known item; but that is no good. So until I fix it please refrain from trying.

[Forumadmin]

I think Jowett Gallery is just about working having been rebuilt twice. However there is still a problem with user administration. So it would be best not to add any new material. You can view I hope. Let me know of any problems.

[Keith Andrews]

What are you like at php?
Im stuck on some real basic code in a web mail....
In below

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 if (!empty($paginator) && !empty($msg_cnt_str)) {

        echo html_tag( 'table' ,
            html_tag( 'tr',
                html_tag( 'td' ,
                    html_tag( 'table' ,
                        html_tag( 'tr',
                            html_tag( 'td', $paginator, 'left' ) .
                            html_tag( 'td', $msg_cnt_str, 'right' )
                        )
 //// bar  toggle all  veiwing messages   when there is email                       
                    , '', $color[4], 'border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="1"  cellspacing="0"' )
                , 'left', '', '' )
/// border around the above               
            , '', $color[4] )
         , '', '', 'border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="1"  cellspacing="0"' );
    }

Change this to $color[4] to a image? " /mail/images/bg/blockbground.jpg "

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 //// bar  toggle all  veiwing messages   when there is email                       
                    , '', $color[4], 'border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="1"  cellspacing="0"' )

AND do same below here with $color[4] to a image? " /mail/images/bg/blockbground.jpg "

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 /////changes the raskbar under the banner 
     . html_tag( 'table', '', '', $color[4], 'border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"' ) ."\n"

        . html_tag( 'td', '', 'left' ) ."\n";
    if ( $shortBoxName <> '' && strtolower( $shortBoxName ) <> 'none' ) {
        echo '         ' . _("<b>Current Folder</b>") . ": <b>$shortBoxName&nbsp;</b>\n";
    } else {
        echo '&nbsp;';
    }  

[Alastair Gregg]

Yay the gallery works again. Thanks Keith.

With regards to the other Keiths PHP problem, I can't help. Give me good old HTML any time. Have just finshed www.jowettnorthwest.co.uk and with the aid of a little bit of Java but mostly HTML got it up and running.

[Keith Andrews]

I have upgraded to mail server to open source hmailler, and very impessed for low level use and reasonably large commercial use a a replacement for exchange...
And squirrel mail for wen mail, again very impressed....except for the themes and being ble to match to a site/company background images.
#Colour changes is easy.

Al nice simple...
Jowett nz link have upgraded the domain url now own jowettnz.net
the old jowettnz.sytes.net will continue to work for a while...a yr or so.

[Forumadmin]

IP address 219.88.83.29 had ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_FILE_TYPE, ERROR_TOOLKIT_FAILURE

Mon 11 May 2009 06:29:25 BST Image Error Link 219.88.83.29 Unable to build image

This was somebody in NZ.

I have tried building images of various sizes this evening. 256kB worked ok, 906kB did not and sat with processing image screen. When I ysed back arrow and displayed the album I was adding into, it showed a square with red cross indicating the thumbnail had not been built correctly.

No error was recorded in error log.

Clearly the site is suffering from the hosting admin having moved the site. I am becoming very frustrated!

[Keith Andrews]

A thought

Jowett website had been at a high level of php activity

I used to get over 4000 hits a day on my site I host....
most was just spam bots and =http script kiddie type hacks.

Took put most of the countries where these come from in .htaccess brazil, turkey, china, eastern block, korea and a few others..countries that are very unlikely to have kakariki parrots..
hits dropped to 1700 to 2200.

[Forumadmin]

Our engineers have reviewed the performance of the site again and can confirm there are still performance issues being caused.

A search was carried out for fig in the gallery and this was found to initiate at least 3 php processes, using 40% cpu usage each. Although this impact was temporary (the processes lasting for only a couple of seconds each), it is still considered to be an unacceptable level of resource consumed for a site on our shared hosting platform.

Although we are unable to recommend third-party products (and this is not to be taken as such a recommendation), you could look for a similar solution such as Coppermine.

I am now reviewing Coppermine to see if it will do for JowettGallery. There is a migration tool available.[/b]

[Keith Andrews]

I run 2 gallery web sites since 2003 on my home server....and it is only an old p4 2g with 1 g of ram I built around 2000.
I can have an issue when more than 4 pics of several megs are being uploaded at the same time and netpbm edits these down.
Regardless of what gallery one uses large pics editing is going to cause short cpu usage issues, if servers are overloaded.