Updated apache install to 6.9.0, The route lychee/api/v2/Gallery::Init could not be found.

[ajohnson30]

Updated my install under my apache folder - basically stopped Apache, unzipped the new lychee.zip into the lychee folder, and started it. Got a login message for migration, did that and got a "warning dont refresh", then 200 migration message that I don't really remember..did I not wait long enough? (waited some more after that but nothing happened). Now I'm getting:

NotFoundHttpException in:
The route lychee/api/v2/Gallery::Init could not be found.

The url if I go to http://localhost/lychee or https://localhost/lychee (or the external site)
updates to http://localhost/lychee/lychee/lychee/

If I remove "/lychee" from APP_DIR I can see the site & albums but the images are broken.

[ildyria]

That is why the docker install is better and why we do not recommend installing lychee as a subfolder (Which seems to be the case for you). It works way better if you use it with a subdomain. For example, I do all my local testing with lychee.test in my host file and with apache redirecting lychee.test into the proper directory.

Do you know from which version you updated (kinda matters a lot)?
Also, I strongly do not recommend to not just unzip the folder into your lychee install, the reason being that if we removed some files, they will still be present, this may create issues later. https://lycheeorg.dev/docs/update.html#update-manually

You will need to set APP_DIR and ASSETS_URL. See #3653 (yes it is nginx, but the same principle applies).

To give you an example, my /etc/hosts contains:

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
127.0.0.1 lychee.test
127.0.0.1 phpmyadmin.dev
127.0.0.1 lycheeorg.test

[ajohnson30]

I was afraid that might be the answer. I updated to the latest v6.9.0
When you say ASSETS_URL do you mean APP_URL? I do not see ASSETS_URL option in either .env or .env.example.

I have APP_URL set to https://myfqdn and APP_DIR=/lychee. APP_FORCE_HTTPS=true
Access to the site is supposed to be https://myfqdn/lychee
Sometime I change APP_URL=http://localhost and APP_FORCE_HTTPS=false, then try http://localhost/lychee from the server. Same result

I have also tried renaming the lychee folder lychee.old, unzipping a new copy, however I renamed the public folder to public.new and copied the public folder from the other (lychee.old) and the .env file. It does the same thing -

url changes to:
https://myfqdn/lychee/lychee/lychee
NotFoundHttpException in :
The route lychee/api/v2/Gallery::Init could not be found.

[ildyria]

Did you read #3653 ?

This has been fixed last week (not available on release yet), we need to update the documentation a bit, but you also need to update the ASSET_URL environment property.

I did fix it in the docker example: LycheeOrg/Lychee-Docker@0ed9a06

# If using Lychee in a sub folder, specify the path after the tld here.
# For example for https://lychee.test/path/to/lychee
# Set APP_URL=https://lychee.test
# and APP_DIR=/path/to/lychee
# and ASSET_URL=https://lychee.test/path/to/lychee
# We (LycheeOrg) ABSOLUTELY DO NOT RECOMMEND the use of APP_DIR.
# APP_DIR=/path/to/lychee
# ASSET_URL=http://example.com/path/to/lychee

[ajohnson30]

No I hadn't read that one, although I've since looked up laravel and ASSET_URL and have tried several things with no success. I'm still at the point where removing "APP_DIR=/lychee" shows the albums with no thumbnails or photos, putting it back in results in the 404 error.

I made a docker install as a test which is working - except it has the rotation bug. I uploaded a test picture to it and am able to view it in "recent" and "unsorted" but the rotation buttons dont do anything.
Also I believe I mentioned in a different message that I had a different/old docker install that broke when I updated it. I was able to get it working by tinkering with the .env file, although right now this is internal-only. I did a docker compose pull, docker-compose up -d, and it updated to 6.9.0. It also will not rotate.
I am starting to wonder if it is some sort of windows issue? Even though these two are inside docker..
This is just a small private site, mostly for myself and sometimes my family but they rarely look at it. It's not that large and I can move it if I need to.
Thank you for taking the time to help.

[ajohnson30]

Update - rotation does work on the docker installs, just not in the unsorted/recent folder(s). I was looking up an error I was seeing "FormRequest::failedValidation:168 from id must either be null or a string in Base64-encoding with 24 characters" and I came across
#3453 . I moved the image into an album and was able to rotate it.
My unzipped install is still messed up, which unfortunately is where all my new photos are, but I think can work with one of these docker installs.

[ildyria]

My unzipped install is still messed up, which unfortunately is where all my new photos are, but I think can work with one of these docker installs.

If you have access to the DB, you can still export it and replace the one in docker with it.
Same if you move the photos from your old public/uploads to the "lychee/upload" or whatever folder you are mounting for your images, that way the data are preserved. :)

[ildyria]

Update - rotation does work on the docker installs, just not in the unsorted/recent folder(s). I was looking up an error I was seeing "FormRequest::failedValidation:168 from id must either be null or a string in Base64-encoding with 24 characters" and I came across #3453 . I moved the image into an album and was able to rotate it. My unzipped install is still messed up, which unfortunately is where all my new photos are, but I think can work with one of these docker installs.

Thank you for that one. I know where to fix that. 👍

[ildyria]

Resolved with 6.9.2