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Hi Tony, I haven't tested it, but Backlight 2 should work on Litespeed, as long as the PHP requirements are met: PHP 5.4 or higher, support for SQLite, and XML, which are pretty much standard for PHP installs.
Backlight 2 removes all requirements for Apache's rewrite, which was the biggest issue on non-Apache environments, but Litespeed supports mod_rewrite anyway, so that shouldn't be an issue.

I haven't had a chance to test Backlight 2 on Litespeed; my attempts to install it have failed.  Your suggestion of taking some swipe folders won't work, as Backlight 2 needs a full installation to function.  I'll be happy to help with any support issues you might encounter.

In that case then install or enable the PHP zip module on your machine

Thanks for sharing your success story with us Moving sites like this seems to be a lot easier than it did a few years ago.  We'd often encounter a conflict of permissions between the files that are uploaded via FTP and those that are created or modified by the web server (image uploads, album files, database files).  Many (or most?) hosts now have configured their web servers to give server-created or modified files the same ownership and permissions as user-created/uploaded files via FTP.

This looks to be a performance issue with your host.  Backlight does a lot of work for each page load, but that work should be done in 1/10th of a second or so.  A host with poor performance could blow that out to seconds, as you're seeing.  It also looks like the various requests are slowing it down further.  A single request in isolation may take a few seconds on your host, but when combined with half a dozen requests at the same time, that's blowing out to 30-90 seconds.

Hi Dave, I can't see anything like that in the browser 'view page source'.  Are you still seeing it?  Can you provide a specific URL where it's coming up?

My guess is that it's being injected either by your host or your ISP.  If you're able to see it, try browsing from a different network connection, such as tethering to your phone, and see if it's there as well.

Hi Mark, Backlight won’t let you reparent Lightroom-created albums because there isn’t a way for that change to be propagated back to Lightroom, and the structure would get out of sync and cause further problems when attempting to update the album from Lightroom.
Is this just a single album? Do you no longer plan to update it from Lightroom?

It can be changed through the database interface if needed. I should look into a way of changing an album from Lightroom to Backlight, accompanied with warnings about the above.

Please check your email.  This was a combination of three things.  1. having mod_rewrite set to off in the album .htaccess files, 2. having a site in a subdirectory and 3. a bug where URLs aren't being set correctly when both 1. and 2. have occurred.
The bug was introduced when changing Backlight to not require URL rewriting, especially so that it could work on non-Apache web servers.

Can you log in to the Backlight admin, and visit the link "Update Backlight Index Files" under Special Links on the main admin page.
Does that solve it?  If not, please provide me with a Backlight admin login, and FTP access via email, so I can look further into it.

Hi Robert, I've replied to your email.  For anybody else reading this, the problem is a strange one:

There is a language setting available in the Publisher settings available at a URL like this

https://www.yoursite.com/backlight/publisher/?c=admin&a=list_settings

If the setting for Language is changed, then the translations won't be able to be found.  The value needs to be left untouched, which keeps it as "1", which in turn links to the default set of localisations.  The 'error' here is in having the field available for editing.  This is a mistake on my part, when I marked the setting as hidden, thinking that it would not be made available at all.  In Backlight, hidden actually means to hide the value from display when viewing settings, not to remove the field from view completely.

What was the resolution?

I've released Matt's fix.  To receive the update, visit Backlight Modules and reinstall WP Theme.  You'll then need to re-export your theme to Wordpress within the Designer module.

Thanks for raising this. The automatic process for updating our SSL certificate on get.theturninggate.net seems to fail now and then. I've updated the certificate manually. It should now be working again.