Problem running cleanup.sh

The permissions on the files it's trying to remove are probably owned by the web server user or they are "locked" down so they couldn't be overwritten

Yes, to run that script yourself you'll need to change permissions on all the files.

From PuTTY, change directories to your modules directory (as it's probably trying to clean up some files under that directory)

Type ls -al Take a screen shot or copy the output and post that here.
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Floridave,

That link is the one I mentioned in my 2nd paragraph. As far as I can see, it doesn't use Putty. It says to use a browser to go to the yoursite.com/gallery2 folder and (I guess) the cleanup.php file runs automatically.

What I cannot figure out is how you browse to that URL, because the gallery2 folder is at the root of my dreamhost server. When I use that URL with the browser, I get a Not Found error.

1) Can you tell me how to browse to that URL? According to the other posts for that problem, that would run the cleanup.sh file and solve my problem.

2) If the 'browser' method works, does it work because when the browser is running, the web server is running the cleanup.sh file (via the cleanup.php file), therefore the files can be removed because the owner is removing them?

Thanks.

PS - I didn't post to that other because it's over a year old.

Floridave,

My error. What I should have said instead of "That link is the one I mentioned in my 2nd paragraph." is "The link which you put in your first response is the one I mentioned in my 2nd paragraph." I found that same posting (by cdjutil on 2-20-09) before I posted my questions.

I tried following its directions, but line #5 ("open web browser and go to yoursite.com/gallery2/cleanup.php") doesn't work. I get a "Not Found" error when I try to go to that URL in my browser - both Firefox and IE. That's why I tried using Putty to run the cleanup file.

Thanks for explaining why I'm having a problem running it as myself with Putty - it's a permissions problem. I'm not the owner of the files that the cleanup file is trying to remove.

I put the cleanup.sh and the cleanup.php files in the 'gallery2' folder, just as suggested by the posting.

The main question remains - how do I get to the required URL so the browser can run the PHP file? When I go to either http://gallery.gpdave.net/gallery2/cleanup.php or http://gpdave.net/gallery2/cleanup.php - as specified in line #5 of the directions I get the Not Found error.

I guess I'm doing something wrong because the other people used those directions said they were able to remove the unneeded files.

Suggestions??

Thanks.

Alecmyers,

Thanks for the input. Even though I really don't think the 'cleanup.php' file is in the root directory, I ran it from there - as per your last line - from my browser. It apparently ran, but removed only 3 of the 40+ files in 'cleanup.sh'.

I'm spending way too much time on this, trying to save a little disk space. So, here's one last question:

Could I be having problems because I ran the Gallery upgrade from the Dreamhost Control Panel (one of their 'one-click' upgrades) instead of downloading the upgrade and running it myself? (Even though the 'cleanup.sh' file was offered during the Dreamhost-run upgrade?) Or should how I ran the upgrade not matter?

Thanks.