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Download gallery and install it as instructed. | Download gallery and install it as instructed. | ||
==Gallery 2== | |||
Mostly this involves untarring it into some directory. | |||
Now, you'll need to ask the admins to set up a MySQL account for you. | |||
Then edit | |||
gallery2/index.php | |||
gallery2/main.php | |||
gallery2/install/index.php | |||
and add the #!/usr/local/bin/php | |||
line as per below. | |||
Then go to | |||
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~YOURUSERNAME/gallery2 (or whereever you intalled it) | |||
and follow the nifty online installation program. At some stage it will ask you for the MySQL values that the | |||
nice admins should have mailed you when they set up your datbase. You'll need a database name, a user name and a | |||
password. Everything else: accept the defaults ( e.g. table prefixes ). | |||
Ignore the bit about making a directory chmod 777; on redbrick PHP scripts run as you, so you have permission to write | |||
to your own directory. | |||
See the bit at the bottom of this page for adding a php.ini to allow uploading big files. | |||
==Gallery 1== | |||
You must then pass all the files through 'dos2unix' even if you downloaded the '.tar.gz' archive. You could probaly write a simple script to this. This is the key to getting the scripts to work. | You must then pass all the files through 'dos2unix' even if you downloaded the '.tar.gz' archive. You could probaly write a simple script to this. This is the key to getting the scripts to work. | ||