1 Reply by dave

(93 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Please consider adding comments and photo ratings (1-5 stars).

I use Showkase for my higher end work, but I am planning a new site for the lower end work that I had on Flickr.  Now that Flickr has been bought from Yahoo by SmugMug, I will be closing my account there.

I want comments and ratings, so Showkase is out of the question, although it is my preferred choice for photo  hosting software.  Piwigo, Zenphoto, and Coppermine all have comments and ratings. 

Showkase is great as is and I assume this would be a major undertaking, but I just thought I'd share my thoughts on this since it was a factor in my deciding to use a different CMS.

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2 Reply by dave

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I think I just now figured it out.

I noticed the date of the showkaseconfig.ini was old, so I must have pulled the wrong one when I copied it into the web root directory or maybe I copied it over before I ran the setup again.  Anyway, I copied over the showkaseconfig.ini file again, this one with today's timestamp, and that fixed it.  I just knew it would be because of some dumb mistake I made. 

Anyway, sorry to put you through this.  Obviously, when I was running setup, I wasn't updating the showkase config file in the web root directory, so I wasn't solving the problem.  Also, the original server DOES have the showcaseconfig file in the web root directory, so I was wrong about that as well.

Bottom line is that I am now up and running and apologize again for wasting your time on a rather dumb mistake.

I will update to the latest version after I verify that everything is good.  I do love this software.  It's been very good to me.

My main site will continue to use Showkase, but I am about to create a new gallery site to host the more amateur-ish pictures that I currently have on Flickr (which was just sold to Smug Mug).  I had even run the sktest on it to prep it for Showkase, but then decided I wanted comments and possibly ratings.  From what I gather, that is not a capability that Showkase has.  If I'm wrong on that, please let me know.  Otherwise, thanks again and best wishes going forward.

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3 Topic by dave

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I just had my webhost move a fucntioning showkase site to a new server and all I get when I browse to the domain is the Showkase login as if it's a new showkase installation (Welcome to your New Showkase Web Site).

Everything works if I browse to the subdirectory (KPMain2) where the showkase software is located: 
(Well, I guess I can't post the link here after all)

The showkase index.php is located in the web root directory, but there was no copy of the showkaseconfig.ini file there so I copied one over per the instructions on the Showkase quick tour under "Showkase Home Page".  That didn't help.  By the way, I don't see a copy the ini file in the original website web root directory either and it worked fine.  There are no other index.xxx files in the web root directory.

The showkaseconfig.ini shows the absolute path correctly for the new server (domain address + /KPMain2).  I checked the site System/Setup menu under showkase and it has the correct path.

I also did a "Repair" under the System/Repairs menu, but that didn't fix the issue, either.

The only issue I see is that, when I did the "Publish", I got a number of errors that say: "Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered".  I went ahead and published anyway.  The green Publish button is now gray and the pages show up when I browse to them directly.

I have Showkase-Pro 1.6.1 | Build: 2016.06.07.09.32.46, 

The IP address of the website has changed and the name servers have been updated.  When you browse to kruegerphoto.com you will get the new site, not the old one.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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4 Reply by dave

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Thanks for taking the time to help me with this.  I think I figured it out and now I'm embarrassed for not thinking of this.

I have KeePass Helper installed on my browser which modifies the page title to make sure my KeePass password safe recognizes what website I'm visiting so it knows what password to use.  It apparently interferes with the way the favicon displays on the tab.  After I disabled it, the icon displayed correctly.   I installed that app so long ago I forgot about it.

My apologies for dragging you down this rabbit hole.  I was afraid it might turn out to be something stupid like this.

By the way, so far I have been extremely impressed with ShowKase.  It works perfectly for me and I love all the config options.  I also like that it doesn't break whenever there's a Wordpress update like my last web gallery experiment.

Thanks again for your help.

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5 Reply by dave

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Still not working. 

I can see the icon on the screen (not the tab) when I go to  kruegerphoto.com/favicon.ico
so I know it's there in the root directory. 

I'm not entirely sure this isn't a Firefox issue, but it displays other favicons correctly, including the one from my other site: cityshadows.org

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6 Reply by dave

(11 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Thank you for the reply Steven.

I found the file and code.  It was just as you described.  I have v1.6.1.
I pasted in the line of code using Notepad++ and dropped the ico file into the web root directory, but it doesn't seem to work.  I also tried dropping the ICO file into the main showcase directory), but that didn't help either.

I'll keep working at it to try and figure out what I'm doing wrong.

{block "stylelinks"}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$ss_themeUrl}/css/styles.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$ss_themeUrl}/css/custom.css">
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
{/block}

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7 Topic by dave

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I have Showkase installed in a subdirectory from the root directory.  Everything works fine, but I'd like to use my old favicon.  I placed it in both the root directory and in the Showkase directory, but it still isn't being picked up.

A forum search gave me one result, but its from 2014 (this forum won't let me post the link) and the file and code don't match my Showkase Pro 1.6.1, so I was hesitant to proceed with any experimentation. 

Can someone please tell me where to put my favicon and what code insertions/changes are necessary to make it work?

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