Why is it looking for this URL http://www.example.com/sites/default/files/slideshow/sites/default/files... ?

I attached a picture.

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Adam S commented

I did a horrible job of hiding my URL :) not that it matters.

EDIT:
I changed global $base_path to $base_path = 'http://mysite/drupal/' and things are fine. Is this something I should be worried about at this point? Should have something configured in defaults.php or .htacess?

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evanmcd commented

I'm having the same trouble, but can't for the life of me figure out how to change $base_path. is it cause I'm a bit of a newbie, or....?

Thx.

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Adam S commented

First, get your hands on a good text editor. For windows I use Notepad++. You will need to use the text editor replace function.

FIND: 'global $base_path'
REPLACE: '$base_path = http://mywebsitename.com/thefolderthatistherootofdrupal'

Try replacing $base_path with $base_url because this isn't really good solution it's just a hack. because it's not dynamic.

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m.zerres commented

Same for me! The path to thumbs is ...sites/default/files/sites/default/files...
Which file did you edit to get rid of it?

Thx

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Xel3 commented

There is a much simpler & easier fix.

http://drupal.org/node/750220

adamsohn - March 30, 2010 - 03:42
You can just put the .swf file in the root directory and configure it to /slideshowpro.swf

Thumbnails will show up once you've done this.

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skov commented

Thumbnails are not displayed properly because URLs are incorrectly formed in the images.xml file. They are referenced as relative (i.e. tn="sites/default/files/imagecache/ssp_thumbnail/slideshow/images/[the image].jpg") but should be absolute (i.e. tn="/sites/default/files/imagecache/ssp_thumbnail/slideshow/images/[the image].jpg")

This is corrected by appending $base_path to $album_thumb and $thumbnail on lines 112, 119, 137, 146 of ssp.module

$album_thumb = ssp_imagecache_generate('ssp_thumbnail', $images[0]['filepath'], TRUE);

$thumbnail = ssp_imagecache_generate('ssp_thumbnail', $image['filepath'], TRUE);

becomes

$album_thumb = $base_path . ssp_imagecache_generate('ssp_thumbnail', $images[0]['filepath'], TRUE);

$thumbnail = $base_path . ssp_imagecache_generate('ssp_thumbnail', $image['filepath'], TRUE);