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Thanks Mark,
Your solution worked for me too
John

Thanks Ben, here it is.
http://reynoldsweb.ca/galleries/default-album/

I worry that the original installation of Backlight 2 might have been flawed. It worked as it should but i worry about the directory structure.

/var/www/reynoldsweb.ca/public_html  This contains directories for Backlight and Blog and Galleries

The Backlight directory is Backlight 1 and under it is Backlight 2

Appreciate your advice.

Thanks Ben, this did the trick including the link to Lightroom now works as it should. Also it made me confident enough that I could go back and do an upgrade rather than a fresh install.

The upgrade got me a big part of the way there. The galleries home page is fully restored but clicking on each gallery generates the following error message:

Warning: require_once(./../../backlight/framework/Framework.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/reynoldsweb.ca/public_html/galleries/1981/lib.php on line 48

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required './../../backlight/framework/Framework.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/reynoldsweb.ca/public_html/galleries/1981/lib.php on line 48

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

John

Hi Ben, I am sorry that the wrong message came through. I was following up on your previous comment. "Sorry, but if you're going to run your own server then you need to know what you're doing." My frustration is not with BL-2, it is with me. As someone with no training in IT I have managed to keep up with the needs to get BL and its predecessors operational. Now I take one step forward and two steps back.

Thanks for your suggestions I have confirmed that all are as they should be. However now I am getting an error message trying to connect to http://mywebsite.ca/backlight/ 

This page isn’t working
mywebsite.ca redirected you too many times.
Try clearing your cookies.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Thanks again.

John

Hi Been struggling with the same problem but have the additional problem that I am the administrator of my own server which is Ubuntu 18.04. Dont have the benefit of a C Panel and have been struggling for hours to ensure that PhP Zip 7.2 is installed. I get the same error message over and over.With the new delivery method for Backlight 2 my backlight no longer works. Any suggestions or advice? I realize that this is a server issue but hope there is an alternative way to install

"Your host does not provide support for the ZipArchive PHP package"

Thanks for the link. Have modified the WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL in the wp-config.php file as directed in the link but unfortunately this did not help. The other approaches mentioned require that I can login to my Wordpress account, but I cannot do that. Not sure what I can do perhaps have to recreate the wordpress site from scratch.
Thanks anyway.

Thanks to you both. Will look at the code, but I know that I have not entered any custom code. I only make changes via Backlight.

Rod,
Thanks so much for the comments both here and by email. I have been able to fix the problem. I have taken the liberty of copying the relevant parts of your email. Sorry couldnt paste the image. You guys rock.
John

"Ok, I see what you mean. All of your albums are displaying the masonry layout. The difference between your 2016  albums and your older albums is that the 2016 albums have much larger thumbnails. All albums are using three columns, it appears that the older ones, with the smaller thumbnails, are not filling the space.

You could try republishing the older albums. There’s a setting in Publisher set up that allows for re-rendering thumbnails without having to re-render the large images."

Thanks Ben, I tend to get engrossed in sorting out problems like this and so worked until 3 AM troubleshooting. After a few hours sleep I now see that it is working as expected. I guess sleep fixes everything. No explanation on how this happened but thanks for the feedback. I never did get the Migration tool for CE4 publisher to work. I find these sorts of tools can be unforgiving and find the imperfections in the way the system is configured. Quicker to start with a fresh install. I open up the settings for each existing album set and album and then close it again and then I can publish with the new Backlight settings. If I don't do this then the republishing crashes. So all good. Love the system and it is worth the effort.
John