Gallery Requirements

Gallery 1.x and Gallery 2.x have certain technical requirements that must be met (i.e. installed and/or configured) on your server before you attempt to install Gallery.

A brief overview of the requirements of Gallery 1 and Gallery 2:

  • Platform - UNIX (BSD, Linux, ...) or Windows
  • Webserver - Apache, Microsoft IIS, Zeus, ...
  • PHP - PHP version 4.3.0 or greater (Gallery 1.x requires PHP 4.1.0 or greater), PHP safe_mode must be turned off
  • Image Processing Library - In order to automatically generate thumbnails and resized versions of your photos, Gallery requires either ImageMagick or NetPBM. Gallery 2 additionally supports GD and GraphicsMagick
  • Database (Gallery 2 only) - MySQL 3.x, 4.x or 5.x, PostgreSQL 7.x or 8.x, Oracle 9i or 10g, DB2 8.2, MS SQL Server 2005 (Gallery 1.x does NOT require a database)

For a detailed list of the requirements and further instructions, please see: