Jul 182006
 

I installed Gallery2 yesterday, but it had some quircks. First of course the save_path I mentioned yesterday, but at some point the whole Gallery software seems to hang. Mostly when viewing thumbnails and/or clicking on them to view the bigger image. You can read numerous entries about that in the support forums of Gallery2. Since Gallery2 by default enables several graphics-tools to create thumbnails, I found that I only had one of them. So I disabled GD, and while I was there, I upgraded ImageMagick to 6.2.8 (I still had 6.2.3). Restart webserver. Done.

 Posted by at 23:03
Jul 182006
 

While trying to install Gallery2, the first step already crashed on me with an error. Something about not being able to write the session-files. But when I check the directory they’re supposed to be written to, the files were there, complete with their correct contents (as far as I could see). So…what is wrong. After some Googling and after reading the support-forums I found out that on Windows the “session.save_path” should be an absolute path, not just “/tmp”. So I modified it to “C:tmp”, et voila, it works!
I can now normally logout off my old Gallery (1.x): before the change it would always barf some PHP-error at me.

All this to show some of my Van Morrison pictures I took at the North Sea Jazz festival last Saturday. My father bought the tickets the first day they were selling them, and it resulted in us sitting in the almost middle seats of row 2! A couple of chairs to the right (that were occupied by other people of course) and we would have looked him straight in the face. I’ll update the post later with the link to the album.

Update: main gallery is here, and Van can be found here.

 Posted by at 00:25