[Solved] "Site admin" crahes Apache (XAMPP, Windows XP)

Boby71

Joined: 2005-09-19
Posts: 25
Posted: Sun, 2005-10-16 21:34

Hi,
at first I have to say, I have a well running Gallery2 online on my website.
But I have to present our gallery offline in a few days. So I decided to install XAMPP on my WindowsXP machine.

So far, everything's fine. It took me a while to find the correct paths, but now it's working. At least partially - because I am unable to configure my gallery with the "site admin" link (the one within gallery).

Every time I klick on it, my XAMPP-Apache says goodbye - and that's it.
Everything else seems to work well.

I was trying to go there for two reasons:
1) I want to set up the standard language (German)
2) Some thumbnails seemed to be broken - and I wanted to recreate them for the whole gallery.

Maybe I also have a hint:
I wanted to recreate thumbnails for a certain album and now all the thumnails in this album are broken. It seems, that there's a component missing, responsible for doing the graphical work (I forgot the name, but I thought this should be part of the XAMPP installation, istn' it?)

I'm grateful for any hint I get.

Thank you in advance,
Boby
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sun, 2005-10-16 21:50

i guess you need to disable the rewrite module.

http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:faq#Images_don.27t_show_up_and_the_album_.2F_photo_links_don.27t_work.2C_what_can_I_do.3F
 
Boby71

Joined: 2005-09-19
Posts: 25
Posted: Sun, 2005-10-16 22:48

Sorry,
I tried the link (after changing it to my situation), but Apache crashes again, when using it.
Then I tried to 1) deacitvate and then 2) to delete everything in g2_pluginmap and g2_pluginparameter what I was able to find about "rewrite" and "watermark" (I'm just using the watermark-feature of the rewrite module). Due to the fact it wasn't still working, I delete the .htaccess file out of the gallery directory (which only contained rewrite-rules).

I tried that all, but Apache is still crashing.

Back to my first idea:
Could a missing GD-libary (I remembered the name!) in the Apache package cause this behavior?
Maybe that didn't came clear in my first posting: I downloaded my whole website to the xampp-directory; I wasn't installing gallery on my local system from the scratch. On my webspace, there exists an installed a GD-libary and all the settings within gallery are knowing that. Now I downloaded these settings (coming with an all-in-one database-backup) and just put it into the htdocs-directory on my XP-machine. Maybe the installation of gallery doesn't fit to my ´local web-configuration?

Something else: I've gallery embedded into PHPNuke.
But like I said...online, everything works fine. Only offline, I'm having my troubles.

Thank you,
Boby
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Mon, 2005-10-17 10:04

you should read this. each step should have been followed carefully:

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

GD shouldn't crash your apache directly. it could crash php and thus crash apache. and if it did, you'd see a corresponding line in your apache error log (error log is not the access log).

@phpnuke:
no idea about how this thing works.
 
Boby71

Joined: 2005-09-19
Posts: 25
Posted: Tue, 2005-10-18 18:30

Thanks,
on apachefriends.de I got the hint to change to PHP4 - and that solved my problem.
Now, I'm able to go to the admin part of gallery.

I'm just having some broken thumbnails which can't be fixed, but I guess I read about it here yesterday - have to look for an answer using the search routine ;-)