stuck on step 4 of installation
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manatee
Joined: 2010-07-15
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Posted: Thu, 2010-07-15 17:59
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I'm trying to install gallery 2 and I keep getting stuck on step 4, storage setup. I can't figure out what to put for the directory path -- what shows up as the default or whenever my browser tries to fill in anything for me, it doesn't work. I don't think I even understand what kind of path I'm supposed to be putting in there. Is it a path for something on my computer, or on my website? I'm on a mac and the only example says something about windows, or is that to do with my server? I am SO lost. I tried putting the <?php print system("pwd"); ?> in a dir.php file and uploading that to my site. But when I went to that page, nothing showed up, it didn't give me a directory. So I tried a couple lines of other php to see if it would do anything, and they worked fine. The pwd thing just isn't doing anything. Sorry if this is a really stupid question, I can't find this in the FAQs or anywhere else. |
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That path would be a path on the server. Something like /usr/www/<AccountName>/g2data/
If you don't know what the physical path to your site or account is on the server, you'll need to contact your host. Gallery tries to auto-fill stuff in, but that doesn't work on some host's who have overly restricted their servers in the name of "security"
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Thank you! This is already making more sense. With that information I was able to find that info for my site on my host.
At first gallery installer seemed to recognize it, warning me that I should pick a directory that's not web accessible. I told it to ignore this issue for now. But now I get an error that says "the directory you entered does not exist." as far as I can tell from filezilla, it does exist, and has the 777 security setting. Not sure where to go from here.
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I finally solved this problem, it turns out that my host had PHP in safemode. I don't know what this means but after getting it turned off, I could change permissions correctly and the install went smoothly. hope this helps someone else in the future.
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That's great news! Glad you got it working, and thanks for the tip. I found there are lots of things to work through, but once you can see the light at the end of the tunnel it is worth it. Take care, brewster
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Sorry if I should be opening a new thread for this, but I am having 2 issues for the same step.
Issue 1 - I have a USB drive mounted as /media/upload, but gallery2 does not see it. I have an internal SATA drive mounted as /media/storage which Gallery2 sees. They are both fully read/write, but I do not understand why it does not see the upload folder.
Issue 2 - I tried to create a folder to trick Gallery2 /media/upload when I try to save it says the folder is read-only. I checked PHP and safemode is turned off.
You can see my php details by going to http://www.formosa-usa.com/gallery2/phpinfo.php.
Let me know if you need any additional information, as I want to get this up and running.
One thing to note is I upgraded to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12 by installing from scratch.
Thank you,
Amit
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agoela, your site doesn't even load for me.
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right since i was stuck on step 4. After further investigation, it was SE Linux that was causing the problem. I had just installed/upgraded Fedora and completely forgot about about SELinux. Thanks for responding though.
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Im not sure i understand this
/usr/www/<AccountName>/g2data/
am i supposed to write in my php name in "account name" ?