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/backlight/installer is only part of Backlight 2 and 3. The installer files should be interchangeable. For example, the installer that ships with Backlight 3 will install a Backlight 2 site if you haven't purchased Backlight 3. We don't notify users of updates to the installer files, as any changes are only minor improvements that aren't of general interest once you have a site up-and-running.
The installer files aren't redundant after installation is complete. They also provides a way of making emergency recoveries should any of our updates through Backlight Modules break your admin in your environment. If you visit /backlight/installer/ and go through the installation on a working site, it will replace all of the core files without resetting any settings. I have not tested normal upgrades with the /backlight/installer directory removed, so can't guarantee that the site will function without it.
I have put a workaround for this. Either approach to upgrading should work now.
Thanks, Mark. I can see the problem on my test server and will work on a fix for this. In the mean time, is there a button at the bottom of the page called "'Update All Modules"? Can you try that and see whether it completes the upgrade?
It looks like an edge case in matching order IDs and emails. Can you email me your order number and email used? Have you used another email with previous orders?
I'm not sure how that would have come about. Can you visit Designer > Pages, click on the name of the page you want to load on your home page. Click Edit Properties and set Index Page to 'yes'.
Hi Mark, I'm not sure what's going wrong. I can see the error on the get-theturninggate server. I'll need to dig further into this later today. Is your site still functional?
Hi Nico, thanks for pointing that out. Assuming Backlight is actually immediately under the top of your site, then the double slash is nothing but a superfluous slash. I'll look into it.
Hi Don, can you provide a link to an album where Carr is no longer working?
Hi Jan, his is another issue for your host to fix. When files are uploaded they are initially saved at a location configured by your host. It is that location or the permissions configured by your host that is causing the error. We have no control over this. All Publisher does is take those files and move them to a location within your website.
Hi Mike, we can let this one drop if you think it's working correctly. The current version of LR Publisher is 5.0.1. Please update it. While the change from 4.* to 5.0.1 is not consequential from a functionality point of view, you need to use 5.0.1 in order to have the right fields presented in album editing. 4.* checks for Backlight 2 on the server whereas 5.* checks for either Backlight 2 or Backlight 3 in order to present the right fields.
As the developer of the LR plugin, I think it’s a limitation in how our code works with the Lightroom SDK (software development kit). It’s been a long time since I looked into it so I’m not completely sure of the following cause. Lightroom’s publishing system wants to create one rendition per photo, and when it does it that way, the chain of other plugins get called. Our Publisher creates its own order of doing things so that we can generate multiple renditions per photo. That breaks the way that Lightroom would then interact with other plugins.
It was necessary to build it that way so that all the renditions of each photo could complete before moving to the next one. Otherwise we’d have the case where all the rendition types for all photos in the collection would need to be created before doing that again for each rendition type. That makes for a poor user experience as there would be a long delay before any photos started to be marked as published, and also creates issues if publishing stops for whatever reason. You could end up with the situation of all of your photos only having some of their renditions published.
Moving this to Backlight 3 Customization.
Hi Markus, v3 does not present the user with the “I’m not a robot” field. It determines whether the user is a robot by other means. If you do want that field then set up v2 instead.
We’ll be looking at an alternative to the small icon (a label and link to terms instead), but for now that icon needs to be there as part of the service agreement with Google. It’s added automatically.
Hi Jan, as I said above, this error is caused by an issue outside of Backlight. See how your host's technical support responds.
Hi Jan, in case the problem as already been resolved on your server, with the error cached, can you try visiting Designer > Templates > Clear Template Cache ?
Hi Jan, there isn't. This error happens during the bootstrap process of PHP before our code even starts to run.
Hi Jan, there is a misconfiguration on your host. The configuration is set up to try to write to a directory that the web server is not allowed to. This is not related to our code. Can you try talking to your host's technical support to resolve this. Specifically, the error is:
open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/ucvhprxm/.php/php-mail.log) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/ucvhprxm/domains/jcfotosite.nl/:/home/ucvhprxm/domains/include/:/etc/pki/tls/certs:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/:/usr/local/php55/lib/php/:/usr/local/php0/lib/php/) in Unknown on line 0
Hi Sol, perhaps something has gone awry with the different changes you made with FTP interfering with the Backlight database. Can you share FTP access and a Backlight admin login via Email so that I can look into it?
Your objective should be achievable by creating album sets within a single top-level gallery. e.g. with a top-level gallery called 'clients' you could have:
clients/client-one-album-set/ [set as hidden from parent album set]
clients/client-one-album-set/album-one
clients/client-one-album-set/album-two
clients/client-two-album-set/ [set as hidden from parent album set]
clients/client-two-album-set/album-one
clients/client-two-album-set/album-two
Neither client will be able to see each-other's album set when browsing to /clients/
Then use access codes on the two album sets as needed to allow or block access to the respective clients.
It would be good if anybody experiencing this could check the network traffic via the Developer tools to see whether the images are being fully downloaded from the server.
That would be because the API key is now coming from the Backlight Admin settings, as it is meant to. Can you set it again in the Backlight admin settings and if needed update the same value in LR Publisher.
Not what you are looking for, but I have put in a fix in our working code to stop the Hero section from displaying when a cover image is not set. With the current behaviour, that means it will be disabled entirely in Search.
Nothing of consequence has changed in LR publisher between BL2 and BL3.
I'm glad to hear that. Errors in something your host had set in the.htaccess?
Can you share a screenshot of what you're seeing? To do so, you'll need to upload an image somewhere, then link it with the img tag, e.g.
[img]http://yoursite.com/screenshot.png[/img]
Hi Mark, thanks for the suggestion. This is something we're looking into. We'll need to see if it's possible without running into memory limits during the zipping process.