Albums not showing old galleries correctly

A bit more information, based on tests with a local copy of my personal site https://www.tiirikainen.fi – and also the live site. Hope these help to solve this puzzle.

Both my local copy of the site and the live site always seem to end up not showing any galleries included in the album, and regardless of whether the page tries to show them with a classic NGG shortcode like [album id=23 template=”extend”]. The page shows the gallery summaries, but not the actual gallery contents ie. images. What the browser shows is a message:
“Not Found

The requested URL /wordpress/nggallery/elamaa-palm-springsissa/anza-borrego-desert-state-parkissa was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”. The URL is excactly like this: https://www.tiirikainen.fi/wordpress/nggallery/elamaa-palm-springsissa/anza-borrego-desert-state-parkissa?page_id=8857

I do not know if it helps you in any way, but for information:
If I switch from NextGEN Gallery to NextCellent Gallery (the fork of NGG 1.9.13) the classic shortcodes work perfectly. I have this plugin at my local site for testing, but the database and …/gallery folder area few days old copies of the live site.

I do not wish to switch permanently into NextCellent Gallery as it lacks many features of current NGG and does not work with NGG Pro whose display styles is use a lot. I would also need to go through al my few hundred posts and pages to guarantee some kind of display of images ??

A bit of more info. I tried NextGEN Gallery Reset plugin at my testsite, but no help. Albums only show new galleries made with NGG 2.1.46, possibly also some that are a bit older.

@vesat – Following your test link I am not seeing these issues as I am understanding your description … are you still seeing gate problem?

– Cais.

@photocrati – Cais, I still see the same result. If you go to the NGG album testpage using that link, click first the “0ld” gallery labeled “test gallery” (result is the same regardless of whether you click the above album displayed with classic NGG shortcode or the newer NGG media insert album / test gallery) and at least for me on a couple of browsers and using Windows 10 Computers the system reverts to the front page. But if you click on the second gallery labeled “test gallery for albums” (created using NGG 2.1.46 just a day or two ago), the gallery shows up as it should – both on the shortcode display (above) or NGG media insert (below).
The resúlt seems to be the same when looking at the test page in my Android phone.

@vesat – I’m still not either seeing the issue or understanding the problem you are describing.

You have two albums inserted into the page and when clicking on the “test gallery for albums” I see two instances of the gallery (an expected and known issue we are still looking into … we do not currently recommend multiple albums in the same post/page for this reason).

If you click on “test gallery” it appears to be linked to an “example page” and as such is opening that page correctly or appears to be doing so, again I would see this as expected behavior.

This is happening for both albums in your example. There is a small difference in the two gallery displays as you have breadcrumbs active for one (likely from the IGW defaults) whereas the shortcode template version does not support breadcrumbs at this time.

Thanks!

– Cais.

@photocrati – the problem here is that “test gallery” is a normal gallery within an album and should show up as gallery thumbnail It has been uploaded about two yearsago with and o?d NGG. It is NOT linked to any page, shoud show up pn the same page, and showed up pk only a short time ago.
Looks like NGG 2.1.46 is generating some odd linking code. On my personal site wwww.tiirikainen.fi all galleries uploaded some time ago and shown through albums end up in an error 404, not even showing my error page. See the first post in this thread.

@photocrati – Cais, first: thanks for the check of a linked gallery; at my testpage the older gallery was (automatically By NGG at the creation time!) linked to the FrontPage. When I removed the link from the old gallery, this album now shows both two galleries perfectly – like NGG should ??

But, on my live personal site, have a look e.g. at this page:

This page is very simple, using several albums, which contain one to six galleries each. The galleries very uploaded in August 2012 and I haven’t touched the page since. None of will show from any of these albums, the result is just an error message 404 (not even on my site’s 404-page!). If you hover over any gallery (none them linked to any page), the URL you see is like this one:
https://www.tiirikainen.fi/wordpress/nggallery/city-of-helsinki/helsinki-city-summer-shots?page_id=1677 – and this does not show.
When I switched a local test copy of this site to use NGG 1.9.13, the URL shown is very different – and it works:
https://localhost/wordpress/?page_id=1677&album=17&gallery=76

Page content here in text mode for reference, just text and shortcodes is as follows:

Some time ago I moved all my photos from Facebook into these galleries, with English captions. Main reason for doing so are some copyright issues that I’m not fond with in Facebook.

Currently the following albums contain photos with English texts:

[album id=16 template=compact]
<hr />
[album id=17 template=compact]
<hr />
[album id=18 template=compact]
<hr />
[album id=19 template=compact]
<hr />
[album id=20 template=compact]

@vesat – Have you tried changing your WordPress Permalinks from the “Default” to something like “Post name” or “Month and name” as better alternatives? You may also need to clear the image cache under Gallery > Other Options > Miscellaneous afterward.

Thanks!

– Cais.

@cais – thanks a lot again! Your suggestion to use “post name” as WP permalink structure seems to solve this, and all albums I’ve tested so far show galleries as planned.

But, I still think NGG should also work on WP permalink default setting ?? Maybe you can have a look at that sometime.

@vesat – NextGEN Gallery does work with the WordPress “Default” Permalinks setting but unfortunately there are some hosts where it does not work … it would appear your web host may be one of those.

Thanks!

– Cais.

@cais, could be something in web hosting, even though “Default” does not seem to work at two different local test platforms either (AMMPS and Wampserver) on Windows 10, and occasionally also XAMPP on Mac/OS X.

For on-line web sites I use one single hosting company who also provide linux-based WordPress environments as a service. I always have installed WP personally there, as it is so easy ?? All other sites but my personal site have been using “Post Name” setting in WP.

If it helps you think about why those errors with WP default setting of permalinks in any way: NGG shows this host currently running PHP 5.4.45 and MySQL 5.5.48-cll, so should be about uptodate.

@vesat – The issue with “Default” Permalinks has been ongoing with at least two significant hosting services for a very long time. Fortunately WordPress itself no longer uses the “Plain” Permalinks in default installations now so the issue is becoming less of an inconvenience for subscribers to these services.

Thanks!

– Cais.