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Thanks for the responses Alex. I’ll keep trying periodically in the future – I’ve seen that PHP6 has safe mode removed. Perhaps my hosting service will upgrade soon and that will solve my problems. Thanks.

So am I unable to use this plugin at all? I’ve manually created the folders and set the permissions to 777 and the thumbnails are not created:

Follow thumbnails could not created.

      Feb 4-4.jpg (Error : Create Image failed. Check safe mode settings)
      Feb 4-3.jpg (Error : Create Image failed. Check safe mode settings)
      Feb 4-2.jpg (Error : Create Image failed. Check safe mode settings)
      Feb 4-1.jpg (Error : Create Image failed. Check safe mode settings)

Thumbnails successfully created. Please refresh your browser cache.

I have generated my own thumbnails and placed them in the respective thumbs folders, and the thumbnails do not appear. Is there any way for me to use this plugin?

I have no capability to turn safe mode off, as I’m using shared hosting and this is controlled by the hosting service:

Safe_mode
Safe_mode is enabled for all domains, and will not be disabled due to security reasons. Even if the requirements for your application need safe_mode disabled, our implementation of PHP will allow scripts to work with safe_mode enabled.

I just upgraded to NextGen Gallery 0.93 and I still have been unable to generate a single thumbnail or upload an image. I’m creating the gallery folders manually with 777 permissions, and still nothing. I’ve also tried adding a php.ini file with safe_mode = Off, but that hasn’t helped either.

(Error : Create Image failed. Check safe mode settings)

What happens if you try to upload a small-sized image?

Make a new text file with this as the contents:

upload_max_filesize 100M
memory_limit 50M

Save that text file as php.ini and upload it to the root folder of your website.

Also see the FAQ here:
https://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/faq/

You can adjust your memory limits by adding an .htaccess file similar to comment #48 at this link:
https://hqcode.com/working-with-next-gen-gallery/

Note that this does not apply to Windows based servers.

Still nothing?

I also ran the 1&1 test script from this post:
https://alexrabe.boelinger.com/2008/03/21/11-3/
(I’m not using 1&1 for hosting), and it completed successfully – indicating it is not a memory error.

I also tried modifying the .htaccess file to include the following:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

which didn’t work either (probably since I’m already using PHP 5.2.5, but I’m just randomly trying things at this point).

Can anyone help us?

I have the exact same problem and have been unable to find a solution. I too am running 2.5 and have modified nggallery with safe mode = false, and have set permissions to 777 on the gallery folders.

# Operating System : Linux
# Server : Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_psoft_traffic/0.2 mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_throttle/3.1.2
# Memory usage : 17.07 MByte
# MYSQL Version : 5.0.51
# SQL Mode : Not set
# PHP Version : 5.2.5
# PHP Safe Mode : On
# PHP Allow URL fopen : On
# PHP Memory Limit : 48M
# PHP Max Upload Size : 100M
# PHP Max Post Size : 100M