how to make my gallery page my home page for web
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runta
Joined: 2007-08-22
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Posted: Wed, 2007-08-22 18:15
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This is my first time to try and set up a web site. The server is running Apache, I have gallery already installed, and my pics are uploaded. I have been struggling with this for 8 days!! I am technically challenged,so all I want to do is set my gallery page that has my artwork on it, as the page you see when you come to my site. I do have a mysql, php, already installed. By the way I have gallery 1.5.7, I have read the install instructions over and over, and I just can't get it! Can you help? Thanks in advance for taking your time! |
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Hello runta,
i am not sure if i understand you correct.
Let me tell what i think i understood.
You have a website
Its running fine
URL is www.yoursite.com
You have a gallery
Its also running fine
URL is www.yoursite.com/gallery
But you want that Gallery appears at www.yoursite.com
Is that correct?
Jens
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Hello Jens! Thanks for replying so quick, you took me off guard! My web host is start logic, they have a package, I guess you would call it, to download and install Gallery, I have 1.5.7, I also downloaded Imagemagic, I can upload my pics to the album, but how do I make that the home page people would view when they visit my site? Like I said, I am very slow at trying to comprehend computer language! I hope this is a little more insight into my question. Basically what I want, is the ability to thumbnails of my art, with the option to click on to enlarge, then have the title, size and price for my artwork, then to further complicate problems, I want the menu box ,ie.,home,contact,etc. THEN I want to play music while looking at photos! Whew! Any assistance you could offer is greatly appreciated! I have Filezilla, I have uploaded Gallery 1.5.7, and Imagemagic, to the server in the ftp.public file. Is that correct? I have searched Start logics website, and it really isn't much help, nor is the support, I had to wait three days to get anything from them. This has now become an all consuming life mission to complete this! Thanks!
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Oohh!
i am still not really sure, but when i understand you correct. NOTHING is working so far.
You are just starting from scratch. Is that correct?
Jens
P.S.: Using the 'enter' key sometimes makes reading a post a lot easier ;-)
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Hi Jens! OOooh! Now that's a horse of a different color isn't it? You got it, REALLY starting from scratch. I know I'm in way over my head, and getting very frustrated! Do these files go into public_ftp., or public_html? Sorry I don't understand what you mean by using the enter key, pathetic isn't it?
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Hello,
the files must be in the public_html folder.
You can't use the ImageMagick because the chance that it does not fit is ~99% ;-)
Hopefully your hoster has it already installed, so gallery will detect it automatically.
Please read the documentation at: http://codex.gallery2.org/Main_Page
If you don't understand things there, let me know, we'll figure it out.
If you are superfrustrated, don't want to know exactly how the heck this Gallery (/%/&$%(&%§&% is installed and just want it working, let me also know.
We'll find a way ;-)
"enter" key on your keyboard, is the key for a new line, in germany (were i am from) we also say "return" key.
(10x enter) ;-)
Jens
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I've got the same problem. When you type in my site: http://fotosbyerika.com, you end up with a blank site. There is nothing there. How do I create a main page - an introductory page?
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Same question from me. Gallery2 was installed in www.mysite.com/XYZ. If I use that complete URL everything is fine, but I want visitors to type only www.mysite.com (without the /XYZ). I suspect this is simple, but this is not my area of expertise. Any help would be appreciated!
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Slightly different question. I've answered erika_conn's question in a different thread.
RonOnThePond, here is the answer you your question (if you're using G2):
FAQ: How can I move my gallery installation from one folder to another?
For G1, I don't remember for sure, but move everything under www.example.com/XYZ to www.example.com (use example.com for dummy domains, mysite.com is a valid domain and it's not yours)
Then edit config.php (or configure.php, I can't recall the file name) and change the path in several places.
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