so, i have a new problem. i am uploading pictures, but on the admin pages, none of the pictures, or albums, or anything are showing up. however, they do exist in the album folder. they are not showing up in the gallery either. what do i do? anyone else experiencing this?

this sounds suspiciously like the cache folders permissions aren't set to 777.

they are.

a couple of things here.

1. I know it may sound silly but double check your and make sure the permissions are set to 777

2. what happens when you use the default theme or one of the themes that come with zenphoto.

3. are you using mod-rewrite or not
   a. Does your host support it
   b. what is it set to in the zp-config.php

4. does your host support gd2.0

5. is this the latest version of zenphoto?

6. what version of php does your host support?

I am going off what I see at
http://www.tanyastarphoto.com/zenphoto/
is that the link to the gallery you are having problems with.

After fixing the permissions issue I was having, I was also having the same issue. For me, it turned out to be cruft-free URL support was turned on (which is unsupported in IIS). Considering you've got the same symptoms, maybe comment out the line "$conf['mod_rewrite'] = true;" in your zpconfig.php file and see if that fixes it...

you dont want to comment out the line, you want to change it from

true

to

false

Thanks Chilifrei64, that's correct. I presume that commenting it out has had the same effect but i'll change mine now to false as is recommended.

i've seriously tried everything. i think i may just give up at this point. my permissions are all open, i've tried it with mod_rewrite on and off, neither work. i have godaddy hosting, which has php 5.

the default theme does the same thing the one i'm messing around with does.

i really wish i could get this to work.

anyone have any suggestions for a different inexpensive hosting site that they know for a fact doesn't cause any problems? cause the way you change the godaddy permissions is what is making me think it's not working...you have to do it through the control panel and it's wierd.

i don't know.

here is what my permissions on the cache and album folders are set to according to the crazy way godaddy has you change the permissions:

read
web
browse
write
set root

and i have all of those checked off, which i figured was equivalent to 777...right?

i think the problem was that i was on a windows server with asp and not php? that sound right? they are switching me to linux with php within the next 24 hours.

That is possible however not too likely. You say that your server had php5 so you should of been ok. But Zenphoto works better on linux anyways. And beyond that. You will be happier with Linux hosting anyways. More web applications support apache/linux rather than IIS/Windows

that was the problem! everything is working fun now. yay!