Posts by tonygamble

tonygamble · Backlight Support

Thanks Ben,

I forgot that it needed Backlight installing on the server.

I have a few jobs that will need my attention over the next couple of weeks. Now is not the time to be learning new techniques.

I'll be back when life gets quieter. I'll also ask my web chaps about PHP and so on.

Tony

tonygamble · Backlight Support

Maybe you could look at those two posts were people seemed to have problems with Litespeed and see if they spoke of a syntax that they thought caused problems.

Then could one of you good souls at The Turning Gate send me a couple of relatively complicated folders that use 'swipe' and I could upload them to the web server I rent space on. We could then see if they work.

I would very much like to return to your system as I find the JuiceBox system degrades my images - but I left you when you were tied to Lightroom and I am not a Lightroom user.

Tony

tonygamble · Backlight Support

Can I flush up this one year old thread and ask the same question regarding Litespeed instead of Apache.

My web provider said ""Our shared servers are LiteSpeed unfortunately rather than Apache, and this CMS seems to reference just Apache. I'd recommend checking with them to see if Litespeed also works for this software."

I have done a search on this site. Two people have mentioned Litespeed since my post. Do you happen to know if they got Backlight 2 working?

tonygamble · Backlight Support

Thanks Ben,

Fully understand about the time pressure.

Tony

tonygamble · Backlight Support

Thanks Ben.

As you sell Backlight 2 on a 'no returns' basis - about which I fully understand - I will leave purchasing it for a while.

As Matthew knows I was a TTG user for a while but got fed up with the overhead created by Lightroom. I have muddled along with JuiceBox in the meantime. Learning Backlight from scratch will be a challenge I am tempted to postpone and maybe by then someone will have tried it on LiteSpeed.

Thanks again.

Tony

tonygamble · Backlight Support

I'm interested in buying the new Backlight that is not reliant on Lightroom.

Your specification about FTP servers refers to Apache and I have enquired with my guys. They came back with the following:-

"Our shared servers are LiteSpeed unfortunately rather than Apache, and this CMS seems to reference just Apache. I'd recommend checking with them to see if Litespeed also works for this software."

Will I be OK or will the software not run?

Many thanks

Tony

tonygamble · General

Brilliant news.

I used TTG for my web folders for quite a while and then moved to another software suite as I hated being reliant on Lightroom. I am using Juicebox which is fast and easy to configure - but it is limited in the variations of folder look so I will be happy to revert to TTG.

As with the previous poster it was the only reason to work with Lightroom. I found it slow and cumbersome.

The thought of being able to move back to TTG and not have to work withing Lightroom is great news. I will be an early convert to Backlight 2.

Tony
London UK

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

Thanks Rod,

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

I have recently moved to new PCs and most of my TTG Lightroom system works as before.

What I have lost is the text that overlaid the bottom left corner of my images as shown here:
http://www.tonygamble.uk/Step_Out_Reh_250218/index.html

What I getting now is:
http://www.tonygamble.uk/SO_Prod_Act1/

Where in the info on the right hand side of my Web tab, using CE4 Gallery do I re-activate that bit of blue text, please?

Many thanks folk.

Tony
London UK

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

I love it Rod. You say:-

"There's a very good chance that the navigation in your legacy galleries and autoindexes won't work as expected. And if you're not using phplugins to manage your CE4 navigation, then it's not easily changed (you'd have to change the navigation then export and upload your galleries and autoindexes again)"

I said to Daniel "My site consists of about 1,450 folders, each containing an average of 75 images.
Half of them were constructed with Gallery so half have two "Return to my index page" links. Using LR to recreate those folders is impossibly time consuming. I'm hoping that the new host has done it using search and replace. We are talking about a site that is just short of 30 gig!!"

That repair work is still not completed and my colleague has spent more hours/days on it than he'd like to admit. It is a slow process when you are working on a 30 gig portfolio offline and uploading time and again to test.

I am sure you are right Rod. Backlight is the solution - but not for a 77 year old Tony with over 100,000 images to reindex.

Thanks for all your help

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

Thanks Rod and Daniel,

I had not spotted your replies as my email notification seems not to work every time.

I'll read them and do some more research.

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

Thanks Rod,

Snag is that moving the work of the last twenty years on to Backlight would be rather time consuming.

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

Thanks Daniel,

My site consists of about 1,450 folders, each containing an average of 75 images.

Half of them were constructed with Gallery so half have two "Return to my index page" links. Using LR to recreate those folders is impossibly time consuming.

I'm hoping that the new host has done it using search and replace. We are talking about a site that is just short of 30 gig!!

They say they are uploading a revised version now but you could look at the old site which was http://www.tonygamble.org/hurllist/

All the gallery folders prior to around 30th June are the ones that got hacked into.

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

Gosh this forum is quiet. A good sign.

As Ben suggested my web site had been hacked into. The people hosting it at the time seem unconcerned and have no backup old enough to recover it. So I have decided to move.

The new host I am using is (a) far faster and (b) far less expensive. That's the good news.

The bad news is that I was on a Microsoft server and I am now on a Linux one.

As you wizards know Linux is case sensitive. So my main index called HurlList does not respond to calls for hurllist or Hurllist. We/I/they are going to have to conduct a huge search and replace to solve that one.

Next it seems that HurlList is not good enough. The URL must be to HurlList/Index.htm That's no problem as we can correct that in the same search and replace.

I have read that it might be possible to set my area on the hosting web server to (a) ignore case and (b) not need the /Index.htm. But the support people don't seem to be offering this as a quicker fix. I am now with SmartHosting. Any suggestions friends?

Question two:-

Can someone explain why the 'Return to' URL that appears at the top of my browser page of thumbnails is then repeated in each single.html file? I don't see the Return to message when I open a large image. Why is the code needed in the .html that holds it?

Thanks in advance for any help that comes.

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

At the moment we are working on replacing all the index files and that seems to work on the few I have done by hand.

I now see that all the template.......php files are dated the 18th July so someone could have had another go at the site.

Would you advise me to copy clean copies of these as well?

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

Thanks Ben,

No Wordpress on my site - but it could be on someone else's on the server of course.

The hacking suggestion makes sense. All the indexes on every one of the 1,400 folders is dated 12/07/16 - but with slightly different timings. The ones created by BreezBrowser, before I came to TTG, contain no 'scripts' or java and have not been changed. All yours have had the middle removed and that presumably was where the hacker planned to add some new content.

It seems that my web host has no backup old enough to hold the undamaged indexes but I have been offered assistance by some nearby IT folk and we will attempt to reload them from my local source over extra fast fibre.

Thanks again.

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

"What's weird is that it seems to be all the body code (the stuff of the actual site) that seems to be missing. "

That's what amazed me. A normal 'copy' does not do that and there is no way I could do that in Filezilla.

It is almost as if they tried to recreate the web folder from a version of the web site.

What 'copy' software would rip out the middle of each index file like that?

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

Rod,

I don't even need to re-upload the offending folders. All I need to do is to re-upload the index.html and the mobile.html. The makes the folder usable again.

Snag is that about half the site is faulty. A site of 1,400 folders so that could be around 700 that need correcting. Imagine how long that would take using consumer software and broadband?

Since posting my problem I have spoken to some IT contacts and they say there is no way I could have corrupted all those index files with my Filezilla access. The web hosting site must have had a problem and created the corruption when they tried to recover from it.

Would you not agree?

The reason I asked the question here is in the hope that you or someone would know why a perfectly good index can get copied across with a chunk of information (after that bit of script) missing. If we knew the answer to that there is a chance that I could get the hosting company to do the operation again without the action that caused the problem.

My IT buddies think there is a way they can do the correction using some batch scripts. However I do now question whether that is worth the effort and that the time would be spent moving to a new web host that takes backups!

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

Another clue - I Hope.

The uploaded html file seems to go wrong and have lots missing after this sequence.

<!--[if (lte IE 10)]>

<![endif]-->

Does this help suggest what might have changed at my hosting site?

Tony

tonygamble · CE4 Gallery

I have looked at the embroidery html on my PC and I can see that a lot of the middle is missing. Does this suggest what might have happened at the web host? I'll paste it below:-

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html class="ce4 gt-ie8 js rgba multiplebgs backgroundsize borderradius boxshadow textshadow opacity cssanimations csscolumns cssgradients cssreflections csstransitions fontface generatedcontent video audio" dir="ltr" lang="en" xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">


<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">

<title>Tony Gamble Photography</title>

<div class="fit-vids-style"><style> .fluid-width-video-wrapper { width: 100%; position: relative; padding: 0; } .fluid-width-video-wrapper iframe, .fluid-width-video-wrapper object, .fluid-width-video-wrapper embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } </style></div><script>
if (screen.width < 768 || navigator.userAgent.match(/Android|Blackberry|SymbianOS|iPhone|iPod|iPad/i)){
window.location.replace('mobile.html'); }
</script>

<!--[if (lte IE 10)]>

<![endif]-->

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<li id="open-nav"><a href="file:///C:/My%20Web%20Site/Embroidery_stool/index.html#r2d2-menu"><span style="display:block;font-size:14px;">Return to:-</span></a></li>
<li id="close-nav"><a href="file:///C:/My%20Web%20Site/Embroidery_stool/index.html#"><span style="display:block;font-size:14px;">Return to:-</span></a></li>
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<span><a href="file:///C:/hurllist/">Return to lots more Hurlingham Memories</a></span>

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