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Sigh. What am I doing wrong?
Authored by: erictaub on Nov 02, '02 01:58:54PM

I've followed the instructions to the letter, and moved the gallery directory to my webserver/documents directory. But whenever I try to run the "setup wizard" I get a 500 error message. According to the log, it's something about a php command denied from the file .htpaccess. Well, I've tried chmodding that file, every file in the setup directory and gallery root to allow all to execute, and all to read/write. Doesn't seem to make a difference. And, yes, php is active. Oddly when I moved the gallery directory to my ~user/sites directory, it seemed to work much better. But I don't want gallery to live there! I even tried activating root and trying to install in /webserver/documents as the root user, and still no dice.

I'm frustrated and lost. Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

I upload LOTS of images -- I hope Gallery will let me create multi-thumbnail pages much like Better HTML Export from iPhoto does now, but perhaps more dynamically.



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Sigh. What am I doing wrong?
Authored by: erictaub on Nov 02, '02 06:08:16PM

well, the httpd error log said that problem was with the .htaccess file, which contained php code. Got a message in the log "php not allowed here." Not sure what that means, or why it shouldn't be allowed, but I reneamed the file to .htaccess.bak, and now at least I'm at the setup screen. Let's see what happens now....



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Now what?
Authored by: erictaub on Nov 04, '02 09:31:46AM

Well, I managed to get Gallery working correctly on my home network, behind my NAT router/hub. So far so good. It seems I had been using Apache Protect to password-protect my root Webserver/Documents directory, and Gallery didn't like it.

Now I've run into a more perplexing problem! When I try to access my Gallery pages from outside my NAT, I get an authentication dialog for a Websense realm on a server 11.48.6.239, whenever I try to display any of the graphics associated with creating Gallery pages (like the infamous transparent pixel). I can paste a URL into the browser which seems to be looking at an innocuous .GIF on my own server, and somehow I am required to log into this server I've never heard of!

Well, this has certainly been an education.



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