http://www.felipe1982.com/photos (host=hostmonster). I had zenphoto 1.2.3 installed (or whichever was before 1.2.4). All was working well. I tried to upgrade to 1.2.4 manually, because simplescript is sh*t. So I "mv" my /photos/ directory to /photos-backup/. Then I untarred zenphoto-1.2.4.tar.gz into web root "/home/username/public_html/" and renamed it to "/photos". I opened browser to http://felipe1982.com/photos and filled in mysql details from the backup "/photos/zp-core/zp-config.php" All seemed ok, except errors regarding .htaccess. I am not sure how to proceed... I am stuck here.

All three are warnings that you may safely ignore if you choose.

The first is a suggestion to reconfigure your PHP. Follow the more information link if you wish to know the details.

The second is also a PHP configuration issue. Strings that are returned by PHP such as dates will likely be incorrect if they contaion accented characters.

The third says that the date stamp of your .htaccess file is older than expected. Since you are on a MAC, this is most likely because the one in the Zenphoto package is hidden by the MAC OS and threfore you probably did not upload it. There is also a version check on the .htaccess file which passed and there was not a change in the file in the 1.2.4 release, so not uploading the one from the release will not be an issue.

I'm on a PC (openSUSE) but I did the downloading, unpacking, installing on my remote host (hostmonster) via OpenSSH. It runs CentOS (AFAIK). .htaccess is indeed there, and I used "touch -r another_file_name .htaccess" to ensure that my .htaccess had the same modtime as everything else in /photos/. I ignored the other 'warnings' and entered my username/pass at the bottom, but it always brings me back to the setup page with same 'warnings'. I can't get out of it. I did not use the old .htaccess, I got the newest from the newest zenphoto tarball package. http://felipe1982.com/photos/htaccess.txt IS A SYMBOLIC LINK to the .htaccess inside /photos/
total 176 drwxr-xr-x 6 felipeo1 felipeo1 4096 Apr 1 16:47 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18 felipeo1 felipeo1 4096 Mar 31 19:36 ../ -r--r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 3221 Mar 30 14:13 .htaccess -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 15127 Mar 30 14:13 License.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 4574 Mar 30 14:13 README.html -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 74339 Mar 30 14:13 Zenphoto.package drwxr-xr-x 2 felipeo1 felipeo1 4096 Mar 30 14:13 albums/ drwxr-xr-x 2 felipeo1 felipeo1 4096 Mar 30 14:13 cache/ -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 687 Mar 30 14:13 example_robots.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 9 Apr 1 16:47 htaccess.txt -> .htaccess -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 4775 Mar 30 14:13 index.php -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 3006 Mar 30 14:13 lighttpd_rules.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 3233 Mar 30 14:13 rss-comments.php -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 2735 Mar 30 14:13 rss-news-comments.php -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 5672 Mar 30 14:13 rss-news.php -rw-r--r-- 1 felipeo1 felipeo1 8581 Mar 30 14:13 rss.php drwxr-xr-x 7 felipeo1 felipeo1 4096 Mar 30 14:13 themes/ drwxr-xr-x 10 felipeo1 felipeo1 4096 Mar 31 19:37 zp-core/

the .htaccess file needs to be writable if I'm not mistaken

Did you get an error logging in?

No errors on logging in (besides the PHP and htaccess warnings). .htaccess is now writable, and .. Wow! Worked! Didn't work yesterday...

Thanks all.

SOLVED

Thank you very much, i had the same problem but now it works too.