I just found out about zenphoto today. I setup my domain and database and installed the program somewhat successfully. I am able to login to the back end and upload images. But when I simply type in my domain, it still gets a "can't find server" message. I'm not sure why. The last link goes directly into an album and there's a different error message. I'm pretty sure I need to move some things around in my FTP client. I just don't know what.

http://www.artfromtheeveryday.com

http://artfromtheeveryday.com/index.php

http://artfromtheeverday.com/gs-bin/index.php?album=minimal

Any help woul be appreciated.

Thanks,

afte

Well, I feel just about as dumb as I've ever felt. I realized that I in fact, registered the wrong domain. I accidentally left the "y" out of the word "everyday" and thus, registered "artfromtheeverday".

Not sure how that happened.

Actually, I'm just a dork.

That's how it happened.

But all joking aside, I'm going to try and reinstall and see if I can't get this all straightened out. I'm not sure the error message had anything to do with the total dorkage of registering a misspelled domain name.

I'll keep you posted. (no pun intended)

Ok. Still having error message issues.

http://www.artfromtheeveryday.com.

The site is not formatting right and when you click on the link, you get some sort of error message.

Please help.

Thanks.

afte

Not Found

The requested URL /gs-bin/index.php was not found on this server.

Apache/2.0.54 Server at artfromtheeveryday.com Port 80

This is the error message that I'm getting. I've looked for the gs-bin/index.php file and I cannot find it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

The site is not accessible at all. I would suggest to contact your ISP since some thing seems not to be right.

Would it be my ISP? Everything else seems to be running normally. www.artfromtheeveryday.com is a subdomain of my main domain and the website linked to the main domain is operational.

One other thing. I realized that I had downloaded...what appeared to be an upgrade. So I deleted and reinstalled from the archives. I went through the setup again and it still doesn't work. I'm getting the exact same error message. I DID however, notice that when I went through the systems check at the beginning, it told me that the .htaccess file was nonexistent. Do you think that could be the issue? And if so, how would I resolve it?

Yes, that seems to be an htaccess issue. Files like the .htaccess file beginning with a period are invisible on some systems like Mac OS X. The file is included in the Zenphoto package (there is no specific upgrade package actually, setup just notices if you upgrade or perform a clean install). You may need to configure your ftp client to show invisible files.

I actually have it configured to show hidden files already and it's still not showing up. I'm wondering if it really isn't in there? If it is, is there another way to find it? Perhaps I should try another FTP client as well.

I've tried multiple FTP clients for Mac OS and even one on Windows and I cannot get any of them to show a visible .htaccess file. So I'm assuming then, that it doesn't exist. I was under the impression that the download version of Zenphoto actually came with an .htaccess file that you just had to modify. Should I try downloading another version? Or?

In case it may help: I am using Transmit on Mac OS X and that does show invisible files (by default if I recall right). Also there are several tools for Mac to make invisible files visible. Try a search on www.versiontracker.com or www.macupdate.com.

Zenphoto comes with the htaccess file that is actually changed by running setup.

Thanks acrylian. That actually worked. And it appeared to install correctly, without the .htaccess error message. However, I am still getting this error message when I try to view my site:

Not Found

The requested URL /gs-bin/index.php was not found on this server.

Apache/2.0.54 Server at www.artfromtheeveryday.com Port 80

Any other ideas?

I have no idea what the gs-bin does there. Maybe you need to set the webpath/serverpath manually. Open the /zp-core/zp-config.php file, comment that out and enter the full paths there.

Regarding webpaths and server paths, I opened the file and found the code. It reads as follows ::

// define('WEBPATH', '/zenphoto');
// define('SERVERPATH', '/full/server/path/to/zenphoto');

What should I change this information to?

You can try:
define('WEBPATH', '/'); define('SERVERPATH', '/gs-bin/')'
The latter define is probably wrong as there is likely a root folder path you will need, but no way to tell from what we can see.

Anyway, it is pretty clear that the automatic path detection zenphoto does is not compatible with how your site is setup so you will need to figure out what these defines need to be.

I'm not exactly sure how I would do that. I've been on the phone with my hosting provider (media temple) and they couldn't figure it out. I'm uploading the files directly into my html folder, meaning I'm taking them out of the actual "zenphoto" folder and uploading them. So that would certainly change the path. The only thing I know to mention is that whenever I go through the setup, I'm now getting an all green systems check except for this message ::

PHP magic_quotes_gpc [is enabled]
You should consider disabling magic_quotes_gpc. For more information click here.

Nope, I tried uploading the whole folder and changing the link and it still gave me the gs-bin error message.

I think you just installed it not correctly. On my host the html folder is the one where everything, pure html or php scripts like Zenphoto, need to be installed.

On my host, there are two folders under my domain name: an html one and a cgi-bin one. I never do anything with the cgi-bin folder. All my files are copied into the html folder. I was taking all the files out of the zenphoto folder and uploading them. So directly inside my html folder, would be files such as the .htaccess file and the index.php file and folders such as the zp-core folder and the themes folder. Should I also take the files out of the zp-core folder and move them directly into the html folder?

The server path would be the local path name of your html folder. Your ISP really should be able to tell you that information! The WEBPATH should be "/"