Hello

After much hacking/trying I managed to install ZP v1.4.4.3. Though I still get problems with the permissions on the site.

http://www.woollypigs.com (main site that runs wordpress)
http://www.woollypigs.com/galleries (runs Gallery3, but hopefully in the future I will be running ZP)
http://www.woollypigs.com/zen (is where I'm testing out ZP)

When I enter http://www.woollypigs.com/zen I get this "A file permissions error has occurred. Please check the permissions on the script and the directory it is in and try again."

Though if I enter http://www.woollypigs.com/zen/zp-core/ I can see the admin pages just fine. This caused a lot of headache at start since http://www.woollypigs.com/zen/ didn't take me to the install pages right away.

Now the question is which .htaccess do I edit to get ZenPhoto and wordpress to play ball.

I had the same problem with getting gallery3 and wordpress to work together, though I managed after a lot of hacking.

I dare not hack away with the .htacces for ZenPhoto since that is way above my foo stills.

Thanks all

What are the permissions? What did setup say? Here is listed what they should be:
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/permissions-for-zenphoto-files-and-folders

If you have Zenphoto in a subfolder there should be no conflict. I just tried Wordpress recognizes that /zen is not a Wordpress page but a real folder (Zenphoto would do as well).

How did you install? Install helper of your host or manually via FTP? If the first try the second please.

I uploaded to my server with FTP, don't have a install helper for Zenphoto on my server.

I set the permissions according to the page you linked to and followed what the setup asked me to do.

Ok, could you post what setup tells and some info about your server? I have sadly no idea but maybe my colleague later has.

Server is with www.e-noise.com.

No big warnings from my server log.

[07/Mar/2013:16:59:25 +0000] "GET /zen/ HTTP/1.1" 200 123 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/24.0.1312.56 Chrome/24.0.1312.56 Safari/537.17"

Apache/2
Software version: 5.5.30-log - MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Database client version: libmysql - mysqlnd 5.0.8-dev - 20102224 - $Revision: 321634 $
PHP extension: mysqli

I have managed to upload, create folders, add tags and add descriptions to photos just fine today. Even change the default theme for the gallery, though I can't see what my photos looks like with zenphoto

What other info do you need and do let me know where I could find it.

link to the log files...
http://www.woollypigs.com/temp/setup.txt
http://www.woollypigs.com/temp/security.txt
http://www.woollypigs.com/temp/debug.txt

Thanks a lot.

The first bit of information you should know is that the "A file permissions error has occurred" message does not come from Zenphoto.

So, the possible causes would be:

1. security settings on the server that do not allow PHP scripts to run with whatever file/folder permissions you have on the "zen" folder or its contents and subfolders.

2. a rewrite rule conflict with your Wordpress install n(or some other .htaccess file) that is preventing access to the "zen" folder.

Ok you pointed me the right way.

I got chmod 777 on the /zen folder changed it to 755 and it is now working just fine. (Doh! feel a bit dumb now ) Why I didn't see that before now!?!

I know it set the 777 when I was trying to get the setup to run. I was rather confused last night when I was "hacking" away.

Thanks a lot, now time to upload and test zenphoto out, it does look good and fast already.