I had a look at your page, using the admin account you PMed me:
You shouldn't have edited "The album directory" and "The directory for user files" in coppermine's config. Changing those settings from the default values is not a bright idea if you have no idea what this actually does. If those folders don't exist, you will of course get error message that say that the folders aren't writable: you can't write files into a folder if the folder doesn't exist.
Setting | Default value | Your value |
The album directory | albums/ | /admu198/albums/ |
The directory for user files | userpics/ | /admu198/userpics/ |
Setting your "funny" settings back to the defaults made the error message go away, but then I discovered that you have made some other serious configuration mistakes:
- In include/config.inc.php, you enabled "silly safe mode" although you don't have silly safe mode on your server. This is of course wrong (looking at PHPINFO would have told you so). I commented out that setting.
- Checking your versions I discovered that you're using cpg1.4.10, while the most recent version is cpg1.4.12. Why did you install an outdated version in the first place, especially when starting from scratch? Probnably the dreaded control panel of your webhost... Those auto-installers suck; never use them again. I updated your coppermine version to cpg1.4.12
One can say that (in an attempt to fix issues you had) you have over-modified your settings in several places. For the future, bear in mind: only change one setting at a time. If this doesn't have the desired impact, go back to default. Don't change several things at once if you have no idea what they're suppossed to be used for.
I'm aware that you tried your best setting up coppermine, and that you got pretty far. Only when problems turned up you tried to fix things on your own (which is good and needs to be encouraged) - the fact that you even tried to fix your issue by using silly safe mode shows that you have done your homework and read some stuff up. So the most important error you made is not undoing the stuff you tried.
Anyway, now everything works as expected. You'll have to look into some things though: the category description on your page for one of the public categories reads
ReunionsThis category includes albums of photos taken during our reunions and get-togethers. Create your own albums within this category, and upload your photos to their respective albums.
This is of course not correct, as non-admin users can not create albums within public categories. You'll need to review your category/album concept. Please read this up in the docs and start a separate thread if you have issues with it.
I turned debug_mode off for you.
As this turned out to be more complicated than I initially thought, what I have done on your site falls into the category "stuff that I usually don't do when supporting". As you initially were ready to hire someone to have coppermine set up for you I guess you could live with a small compensation for me: I want you to read up the thread "
We need your help" and pick one of the possible options listed there. If you have no idea which one to pick, please consider donating a few bucks to
sourceforge.net or the
FSF. Of course I don't want any compensation for me personally.
Additionally, you still have an
open thread - resolve it!
Joachim