Don’t Be Distracted by the Hyena With A Giraffe Leg

• Piwigo – Ctrl Refresh Images Don’t Load Problem Solved
• How Did We Get From’ “My Damn Pages Don’t Load” to “Look-  A Hyena With A Giraffe Leg”?

One of the most recommended open source Photo Imaging Content Management Systems is Piwigo.

On my Piwigo installation at Straton.org.za I kept experiencing a minor niggle which became a major niggle the more I hit Cmd R (Ctrl F5 for the peasants) to force the loading of images and thumbnails in my browser after uploading images to the Piwigo installation.

Anyway using Google to find a solution to “Piwigo: my images not loading” eventually led me to the solution which is all around SSL, Port 80 and Port 443. It would appear that this is a legacy issue from the days when one could choose to either use http or the more secure https protocol. A number of solutions were proposed in the Github forums.

The most elegant solution for me was proposed by user Pierrick Le Gall and involved the following steps:

1. Open your Piwigi Public_html folder on your server
2. Find the Include folder and open it
3. Open the functions_url.inc.php file
4. Find lines 64 to 72 and comment each one out (adding // before each line does so)
5. Save
6. Check

To re-iterate:

Find these lines in functions_url.inc.php:

if ( (!$is_https && $_SERVER[‘SERVER_PORT’] != 80)
||($is_https && $_SERVER[‘SERVER_PORT’] != 443))
{
$url_port = ‘:’.$_SERVER[‘SERVER_PORT’];
if (strrchr($url, ‘:’) != $url_port)
{
$url .= $url_port;
}
}

Comment the above lines out like so:

// if ( (!$is_https && $_SERVER[‘SERVER_PORT’] != 80)
// ||($is_https && $_SERVER[‘SERVER_PORT’] != 443))
// {
// $url_port = ‘:’.$_SERVER[‘SERVER_PORT’];
// if (strrchr($url, ‘:’) != $url_port)
// {
// $url .= $url_port;
// }
// }

You could also delete the lines – I prefer to comment out just in case I want to undo/change at a later stage after any updates.

See video below for visual representation of the process.

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