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SV works fine locally with WP, but not online

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  1. FredT78
    Member

    Hi there,

    I use Wordpress 2.5.1 and Simpleviewer for my blog.
    Before placing it online, I've created it locally and it works fine there.

    But I've now transferred it online and the galleries don't show. I've got the famous "Simpleviewer requires Macromedia flash" message.

    I had no problems creating the .xml file & the 'reg' & 'th' folders for each gallery.
    I can see the thumbnails of the pictures for each gallery in the relevant menu of the Wordpress dashboard.
    All my folders on my site are in 705 mode.

    What could the problem be ?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. Markus
    Administrator

    I just checked your page - looks like you have removed the gallery for now. One thin I noticed is that you have the script swfobject loaded twice:

    <script type='text/javascript' src='http://airfred.ovh.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-simpleviewer/swfobject.js?ver=7796'></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://airfred.ovh.org/wp-content/plugins/1bit/swfobject.js"></script>

    However I assume that it still does not work when you deactivate the 1bit plugin because the script is not available via browser: http://airfred.ovh.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-simpleviewer/swfobject.js It says something about 705 permissions - you should change it to something like 755 and try again

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. FredT78
    Member

    Thx Markus for this fast reply,

    I've suppressed the second occurence of swfobject (from the 1bit directory) and I've set 755 swfobject.fs and evry directory in its path.
    Strangely enough, it doesn't change the OVH page message.

    I haven't removed any gallery. At the bottom of the main page of my site is the message "Simpleviewer requires Macromedia flash".

    Do you have any other suggestion regarding what I should do ?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. Markus
    Administrator

    Hi,

    you have to make sure that you can open this file in the browser. Just enter its name in the adress field: http://airfred.ovh.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-simpleviewer/swfobject.js

    This gives an error message right now, so something must still be wrong.

    BTW, the 1bit code for the script is still there...but also gives the same errormessage.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. FredT78
    Member

    I still can't open the file swfobject.js with my web browser or with my ftp client, even though the file is 777, as is the 'plugins' directory and the 'wp-simpleviewer' directory.
    Th OVH error message still says it's 705. I just don't get it. Simpleviewer worked so fine with my local version of my blog !

    Posted 2 years ago #

  6. Markus
    Administrator

    Probably you should contact your webhoster or move to another hosting company, even if it will cost you some money...

    Posted 2 years ago #

  7. FredT78
    Member

    Hi Markus,

    So, this would mean that my webhoster isn't javascript-compliant ?
    Which hosting company would you recommend, then ?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  8. Markus
    Administrator

    So, I don't think so...however there must be a problem because the page says that the permissions are 705 however they are different as you said.

    So something is not working like it should - all the webserver should do is to make the files available for the webbrowsers :)

    Posted 2 years ago #

  9. FredT78
    Member

    Well,

    I finally spotted what was wrong.

    My /plugins directory contained a .htaccess hidden file, coming from a previous plugin installation. It blocked the access to this directory.
    My ftp client wasn't set up to show hidden files, so it took some time to find out what was wrong.
    Thanks anyway, Markus, for your help.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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