Piwigo on SME 7.4: timezone problem

[Leeland]

I installed the photo gallery "Piwigo" 2.0.5 in i-bay to my sme server 7.4. For purposes of this gallery I also installed php 5 with this i-bay. Now when I visit my gallery, I have this error message:

Warning: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CET/1.0/no DST' instead in /home/e-smith/files/ibays/galerie/html/include/smarty/libs/Smarty_Compiler.class.php on line 400

So I changed the php.ini file in the directory /etc/php5 adding the line: date.timezone = Europe/Paris but got more error messages.

The concern is that each software updates server, php.ini is also updated and the error message returns.

Hence my question: what file *.ini or other changes must occur to maintain this setting schedule and where is it found? Or other proceeding it is more appropriate?

[Snake08]

I do not know about PHP5 SME. But without changes in PHP, it must go to the templates:

etc/e-smith/templates/etc/php.ini/

[Kirt]

SME Server is a GNU / Linux, but like no other! As you may have noticed, by editing your php.ini, the header should look like this:

DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!

To change something, what is not:

etc/e-smith/templates/etc/php.ini/

but create a template here:

etc/e-smith/templates-custom/

On the other hand, I understand that Piwigo works fine in PHP 4.3 so why to install PHP5? And what method you followed to install PHP5?

[Leeland]

Thank you for the various responses. It helped me solve my problem of timezone. To answer the question of Kirt, I read in the doc Piwigo that PHP5 was recommended and I came across this: http://wiki.contribs.org/PHP5

So I used this procedure to install PHP5 ibay in my photo gallery and it seems to work.

[Steve123]

I would make up this subject because I also tried installing on my Piwigo SME 7.4. After several galleys, I finally touch the goal. However, I am also facing the problem of timezone described above.

To remedy this, simply add the file /etc/php5/php.ini as follows:
date.timezone = Europe/Paris.

If I make this change directly in that file, everything works. However, I understand that one should not make this change directly but use custom templates.

So I proceeded as follows (Note that I chose to make the change in the file 50PathsDirectories so completely arbitrary, the key date.timezone exist in any of the files composing templates /etc/php.ini/)

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/php.ini
cp /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/php.ini/50PathsDirectories /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/php.ini/
mcedit /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/php.ini/50PathsDirectories

I added the beginning of the file the following line:
date.timezone = Europe/Paris

I saved this.

Can I regenerate the ini file to be customized.
expand-template /etc/php5/php.ini

Unfortunately, the change does not appear.

Can you tell me where was I wrong?

[Spyrus]

The template that you quote is for /etc/php.ini, or you are trying to make an expand-template of /etc/php5.php.ini
(It is not that the same file)

I guess that's a typo, but you never know ...