Help with htaccess and rewrite rules

After much frustration caused by some weirdness on my server I have installed Gallery 2 and migrated over 5000 images to it from my g1 folder. I am now trying to figure out what the following means.

My Gallery 2 is in the same location (/gallery/) and my Gallery 1 install was.

1. Am I to replace the all of the current info in the htaccess with the code shown? The current info is

2. What does this mean? "Remove G1 rewrite rules from an existing file. "

3. Where is the G1 redirect rule and how do I activate it?

4. And it looks like I am not to change the htaccess if I activate the redirect rule - correct?

5. And totally what does this mean? "Add the same .htaccess block in the Gallery1 albums directory if you also wish to redirect links to image files and album directories. Note that these redirects are not active until the G1 images are actually removed or moved. Omit the !-f line shown below to redirect anyway"

I appreciate any assistance in this because I would like the links already in google and other search engines to get the visitor to the same location as it was in Gallery 1 and I'm guessing these are the steps necessary to accomplish this. I searched but can't find anything about G1 redirect rules except exact quotes of the instructions.

Thanks
Sue

Edited - I have been working on this since this post and realized I should give the problem too (duh) When one goes to an old link, the browser window is blank. I followed the directions found here http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:migration#Migrating_from_Gallery_1_to_Gallery_2 and originally had gallery 1 in the folder "gallery" - then in the migration switched it to "g1" as instructed. Hope someone can help me with this final step in this migration.

Thank you Dave - someone out there must know about this - Please how do I make the migration from 1 to 2 successful where the G1 to G2 mapping works. I did the migration correctly and the mapping has been preserved. The site is www.designbysue.com/gallery.

Sue

The steps I am quoting are those shown on the migrate plug in. I have also referenced the link you posted. I followed the directions at the post for the transfer -including the creation of g1 to hold the original Gallery 1 and installing Gallery 2 in the same directory as Gallery 1 was in (ie gallery). I have Url rewrite configured as instructed and I have tried to put the htaccess code in any possible combination of places and now of the links to the old album go to the new. I don't understand how this works and maybe that would help. But trying to put the htaccess file anywhere in the g1 folder doesn't make sense as now of the existing links point to that folder - it was only created as temporary measure to upgrade. The links point to the current directory (gallery) So in reading your post I figured it would make sense to put it in a folder called albums in the gallery folder, so I just tried that and again no success.

If you go to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=+site:designbysue.com+design+by+sue+gallery&ei=5PKTS67HIomXtgf2psTUCg&sa=X&oi=nshc&resnum=1&ct=more-results&ved=0CAoQ2AQ you will get a long list of the links I am hoping to make work.

The gallery is now at www.designbysue.com/gallery

The htaccess at that location has the following:

# BEGIN Url Rewrite section
# (Automatically generated. Do not edit this section)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /gallery/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery\_remote2\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/gallery/main\.php$
RewriteRule . - [L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /gallery/d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/([^/?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/gallery/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=%1&g2_serialNumber=%2&g2_fileName=%3 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /gallery/v/([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/gallery/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /gallery/main.php?g2_path=%1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /gallery/([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/gallery/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /gallery/main.php?g2_controller=migrate.Redirect&g2_path=%1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

# END Url Rewrite section

# BEGIN Url Rewrite section
# (Automatically generated. Do not edit this section)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /gallery/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery\_remote2\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/gallery/main\.php$
RewriteRule . - [L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /gallery/d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/([^/?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/gallery/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=%1&g2_serialNumber=%2&g2_fileName=%3 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /gallery/v/([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/gallery/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /gallery/main.php?g2_path=%1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch "\.(php|html?)$">
php_value memory_limit 164M
</FilesMatch>

# END Url Rewrite section

I doubt if this should be replaced.

Thanks for your stab at helping

Sue

As stated I followed the instructions exactly as were on the Gallery website.

Again I did this according to the Gallery website so how could this have made it more difficult if the instructions are written for this method.

Is there anyone who does know about this migration. I did this exactly as instructed in the link referred to earlier. I have tried putting the exact htaccess files where instructed and I have enabled the plug ins as instructed. There must be one step that I am not seeing.

thanks
Sue

If that is not what they meant they were specifically written incorrectly! Line 7 of the instructions states

I don't see how I could have interpreted that in any other way

Sue
The instructions are here http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:migration#Migrating_from_Gallery_1_to_Gallery_2

Sue, have you put the the Rewrite Rules and .htaccess file in your albums directory?

Would it be possible for you to give me FTP or SSH access and also admin login access to your G2 install? If so just PM me by clicking Write to author.
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o.k. I made a few minor changes, but I don't have any of your old G1 URLs so I didn't have anything to test. Post or PM what one of those would have been or test them and see if things are redirecting now.
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