how to move gallery2 directory from one directory to root directory on my host webserver?

IAAF
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Joined: 2008-03-19
Posts: 24
Posted: Tue, 2011-08-16 03:10

I use to have my gallery2 directory under a specific domain name on my webhost. I am trying to 'copy' this from this directory to same directory at the root of my account (which means a change in the 'domain name' of the gallery2 installation.

I simply copied the gallery2 directory to the new location at the root of my account and then made the suggested file permission changes. I can't get rid of this error. I changed the directory in the config.php file to reflect the new location. Is there anything else I need to do to make this work? The site was working correctly until I had the main domain name for my host account changed. Now nothing works under the old 'root/mydomainname/gallery2' I had changed 'mydomainname' to my main domain name for my webhost so that now my gallery2 directory should reside at 'root/gallery2'

when I entered the new url to access, I received the Gallery 2.1 upgrader page. I was not expecting to have to upgrade gallery2, but I can't seem to get site to display. It appears as follows:

? Upgrader Help
X Start Over

Upgrade Steps
√ Welcome
√ Authenticate
✗ System Checks
3 Upgrade Core
4 Upgrade Modules
5 Empty Cache
6 Finish Upgrade
Upgrade 15% complete
System Checks
PHP Version Success
FILE Directive Success
Safe Mode Success
exec() allowed Success
set_time_limit() allowed Success
Memory limit (128Mb) Success
File uploads allowed Success
Maximum upload size (32Mb) Success
Maximum POST size (64Mb) Success
Translation support Success
Storage Directory Permissions Failed

Error: Some files and or directories in your storage directory are not writeable by the webserver user. Run chown -R webserverUser /root/public_html/gallery2/g2data/ OR run chmod -R 777 /root/public_html/gallery2/g2data/.

note: I did try to make the file permission changes as directed but had no luck - keep receiving same message.

Gallery file integrity Success

SYSTEM:
Apache version 2.2.11
PHP version 5.2.11
MySQL version 5.0.92-community
Architecture i686
Operating system linux
 
plschneide

Joined: 2004-08-10
Posts: 3
Posted: Mon, 2012-01-02 01:18

Did you get an answer to this problem? I am having a similar problem (moved from one server to another)
 
floridave
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Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 27300
Posted: Mon, 2012-01-02 01:49

FAQ: How can I move my Gallery installation from one folder to another?

FAQ: How can I move my Gallery installation from one server to another?

Dave
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IAAF
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Joined: 2008-03-19
Posts: 24
Posted: Mon, 2012-01-02 03:20

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I am sorry, I did not. I evenutally contacted my support through my web hosting company and they fixed it for me (which was very nice of them to do by the way). But I have no idea what code they had to change within the application.

But I was still never able to fix the database issue. You can now view but can't log in to post a message or change any existing content. I decided to build a new site from scratch using joomla 1.7. I still love the gallery capability much more than what I've found in any joomla extension.