[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] [next-gen plugin] strange events after update

msxfarsa where exactly did you change “755” to “777”could you give a breakdown of the instructions on doing that to a novice?

Itd be really appreciated (as the upgrade also messed with my theme, which is BigFeature btw).

I really hate that I upgraded, and I wish I would have taken note of which NextGen Gallery version I had…. but now I know the true possibility and “realness” of how much an upgrade can mess up things.

@ lavieenrose. I′ll try to break it down.

Changing filepermissions at my webhost is done by ftp, when I log in to my account by ftp i′ll see every folder and file that is in my space. Now I dont now your webhost, but if you have the ability to log in to your account via a ftp program like filezilla or something equal. Then you see folders and files that are in your account.

The path to wordpress if installed in your root is /public_html/

The path to the folder with nextgen gallery could be something like
/public_html/wp_content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

Now if you are able to locate this folder, then you should see wich permissions that are set for that folder, look for numbers like 710, 755, 777 on the right side of folder name. If you use filezilla like I do then you just right click on the folder and choose file attribut and then you can decide permission for the entire folder and make sure that you choose to change permission for all sub folders and files at the same time. After that let the program do the work.

This is how I have to do when changing permission on a file or folder, but it may not look the same for you.

In short: log in by ftp look for the pluginfolder and look for numbers 710, 755, 777 somewhere on the same row.

Hope it helps you a little bit.
Im off to work so it might take awhile to respond.

//mxfarsa

Mxfarsa, it doesn’t make sense that all those directories need to be writable by the public. In my opinion this workaround mau pose a security risk. Also this hasn’t fixed all problems.

Sideshow function still doesn’t work for me.

@ e7 i know it is not good to have it like that but on my webhostingplace this was the only way that I could get it to work, I have e-mailed them with this issue. I will go and test to see if I only need one maybe 2 folders to be in 777 and the rest to be in 755 or something more secure.

Thank you for pointing it out because to be honest with you i did not think of that.

I tested the slideshow function on my site and it worked. But I remember a while back i had another plugin that stopped this plugin from working as it should, so check if you have some conflict with another plugin, so check if you have another slideshow or thickbox plugin or something similar that might cause a conflict.

I will post any progress in this thread after i have tested the permissions again.

update on this permission setting.

I changed the filepermissions for the nextgen-galley folder and sub folder with all files under the nextgen-galley folder to 755, wich means that the public rights are read and execute only. this setup works for me, at the moment.

When it comes to the slideshow that e7 have problems with, im not sure on what may cause this….

Still haven’t resolved the slideshow issue.

If I use a gallery tag the thing works fine and gives me the option to switch to slideshow which works fine. Just using the [ slideshow ] tag doesn’t work anymore at all.