Comments on: Installing Zenphoto on 1and1

By: Silver

Silver — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:21:15 +0000

Yeah, 1&1 is causing problems for me too. For some reason, it’s not working well with MySQL 5 of 1&1. Sometimes settings refuse to save and other times the password field for the admin becomes corrupted. Funnily, when I revert back to PHP 4, zenphoto “check for zenphoto update” works but when I’m back to PHP5, it “could not connect to zenphoto.org.” Seems like 1&1 did something funky with their database and PHP installation.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:03:22 +0000

Wow, I think this post is going to really help me! I have a client that hosts with 1and1 and he just started having problems with thumbnails and images not working correctly.

I am going to update to the latest version of Zen Photo and take a look at the .htaccess file to see if that is the problem.

Thanks in advance, I am sure this will help.

http://www.redrumtattoo.com/gallery/index.php

By: Chris Ward

Chris Ward — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:02:49 +0000

Hi Acrylian. This all came out of a post on the forums that I was working through. I didn’t think at the time to make any more official contact.

http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=5472

By: Zenphoto » Troubleshooting Zenphoto

Zenphoto » Troubleshooting Zenphoto — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:56:10 +0000

[...] For further issues please take a look at this tutorial: http://www.cyberward.net/blog/2009/05/installing-zenphoto-on-1and1/ [...]

By: acrylian (zenphoto team)

acrylian (zenphoto team) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:21:51 +0000

As we can’t possibly be familiar with any specific host issues we would have been really grateful if you had let us know about this via our forum. We only get to know about this tutorial via Erika who had problems we never encountered on other shared hosts. We will now add a entry linking to you on our site’s troubleshooting.

By: Chris Ward

Chris Ward — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:28:59 +0000

I am glad I could be of help. It did take me awhile to get mine going, which is why I made this post.

By: erika

erika — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:17:10 +0000

You are incredible. Thank you. You should be one of the admin guys in zenphoto. They weren’t much help. You walked me through it.

After 3 days of pulling out my hair, now, at least, I’m uploaded and working. Now I have to pick a theme and start uploading.

I’m saving your address in case I need your help again.

By: Chris Ward

Chris Ward — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:50:34 +0000

Just wondering what the permissions are on your server. If you can get files there by FTP, but not by uploading within Zenphoto, it would seem like your upload or album folder is not defined or writeable by the user that apache is running under.

By: Nick Chapman

Nick Chapman — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:03 +0000

I was doing a local install for testing purposes on an XAMPP ’server’. Not sure this stuff was necessary for me, but i like the straightforward writing style here. I am a computer guy / photographer, too.

I’m actually having trouble with uploading images…they seem to work, but don’t show up in the album. FTP upload (or, direct copy, in my case) works fine, though…now I just want to see if I can map the albums directory to the directory on my computer where I keep dated (upload date) folders of all the pictures I take for a more automated album creation process. We will see. [/end mostly unrelated rant]

Anyway, take it easy and thanks for the post!

By: Wayne Erickson

Wayne Erickson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:32:09 +0000

Chris,

Thanks for the info… straight froward and concise.