[Plugin: Picsa Album Uploader] No files provided for upload

Thanks for the update. I re-downloaded the plugin (and re-installed the wordpress button in Picasa just in case). I had the same symptoms with the upload. I’m running 10.6.5 Mac OSX if that helps. Here is the log file:

2010-12-31 23:32:39 Permalink structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
2010-12-31 23:32:44 Permalink structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
2010-12-31 23:32:44 Parsing request 'picasa_album_uploader/minibrowser'
2010-12-31 23:32:44 Request will be handled by plugin
2010-12-31 23:32:44 Generating Minibrowser content
2010-12-31 23:32:44 Form Setup: http://localhost:54216/98936c627389ac032d6f1da88e90720c/image/b4d122b1d8f0d721.jpg
2010-12-31 23:32:44 Using plugin supplied template
2010-12-31 23:32:47 Permalink structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
2010-12-31 23:32:47 Parsing request '2008/03/termites'
2010-12-31 23:32:47 Request is not for plugin: '2008/03/termites'
2010-12-31 23:32:47 Permalink structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
2010-12-31 23:32:47 Parsing request 'picasa_album_uploader/upload'
2010-12-31 23:32:47 Request will be handled by plugin
2010-12-31 23:32:47 Upload request received
2010-12-31 23:32:47 Picasa did not upload any files
2010-12-31 23:32:48 Permalink structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
2010-12-31 23:32:48 Parsing request 'picasa_album_uploader/result'
2010-12-31 23:32:48 Request will be handled by plugin
2010-12-31 23:32:55 Permalink structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

By the way, that localhost link (in the Form setup: line) actually works and points to the hires image I was intending to upload.

Thanks again and good luck!

Rob

Great question. I just tried de-activating all the other plugins but I got exactly the same results (and the log looked the same as well). I had a hunch maybe it was something in my .htaccess file so I cleaned that up as well. I even tried a generic looking .htaccess file that sends everything to WP for clean URLs:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

But I got the same results so far. I’ll keep thinking about additional testing that might provide any useful data. Thanks again for all your help.

Rob

On a hunch, I tested with another blog on another hosting provider and it worked perfectly the first time. I also tried it on a second blog on my hosting provider I’ve been testing this whole time and it fails with the same error. So it definitely points to something specific on that box. I checked the obvious things like the php upload size and it’s set plenty high. The failing server is running Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS and the working one is running something older that’s outside of my control.

I’ll let you know if I come across anything else helpful.

Rob

It’s alive!

There are many differences between the two servers (apache2 vs apache1, different versions of php5), but it looks like the most important difference was suhosin installed on the offending server. Suhosin was limiting the variable name length. Here is the error I found in the the apache log (courtesy of suhosin):

ALERT - configured request variable name length limit exceeded - dropped variable 'http://localhost:51134/b921a58ec2806ab82f5399515fba226e/image/b0f008e85a4fa153_jpg?size=1024'

By increasing the length of the variable names in the suhosin configuration it worked:

suhosin.post.max_name_length = 512
suhosin.request.max_varname_length = 512

I also see this warning but it doesn’t appear to prevent the plugin from working:

PHP Warning: Missing argument 2 for picasa_album_uploader::add_body_class() in /www/185vfx.com/wp-content/plugins/picasa-album-uploader/picasa-album-uploader.php on line 242

Thanks a lot for all your help. Great plugin. Now I’m off to give it a 5 star rating. 🙂

Rob