I'm new to zenphoto.
It's a fresh install.
I put a couple directories in, 100 or 200 jpg files, it seemed to be working.
so I put all 24000 jpg files in.

Now it crashes with Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

what is the easiest way to find what the problem is.
I have a goddady deluxe shared hosting with "unlimited space and bandwidth".

directory structure is the first few years have all the files under the year folder
...\album\1999\(1000+files)
the rest have seperate albums for each day under the year.
...\album\2006\2006_10_25 album discription\(always less than 1000 files named something like 2006_09_09_13_46_55.JPG)

You probably have mod_rewrite enabled (admin gallery options) and either you forgot to upload the .htaccess file or your host does not support mod_rewrite at all.

Thanks for the quick response, I only get a few minutes a day to work on it.

I found that if I add less than ~ 500 pictures, then go look at them, it works.

actually what I did, was go to the admin page and see that there were some photos in my gallery, then try to look at the gallery, after waiting till it errored out, back to the admin page and there is like 500 more, so now I am just adding them a few hundred at a time.

My understanding is the mod_rewrite would apply if I had bad chars in my file names, (so far I don't think I do) I think it is GoDaddy stopping me from using to much time or power at once.

1. If you get timeouts you have probably too much and/or to big images to be processed by your server's capacity. The creation of the thumbnails from your images is done on the server and most shared servers are limited.

2. mod_rewrite is used to make urls nicer looking and more readable. Here an example of the link to an image:
without modrewrite: `www.domain.com/zenphoto/index.php?album=albumname&image=imagename`
with modrewrite: `www.domain.com/zenphoto/albumname/imagename`