Hi again !
Thanks for your help

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Here's all that I've changed when installing Zenphoto (following the advices of some French websites, like http://www.framasoft.net/IMG/pdf/Tutoriel_Zenphoto_1.0.1b_sur_Free.pdf) :
- deleted .htaccess file
- in /zen/ renamed config.php.example into config.php
- in~/zen/config.php : `$conf['mod_rewrite'] = false`
- in ~/zen/functions.php, replaced lines 9 to 16 with :
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`if (basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) == "i.php" || basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) ==
"admin.php") {
define('SERVERPATH', dirname(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])));
if(dirname(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) == '/'){define('WEBPATH', '');}else{define('WEBPATH',
dirname(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])));}
} else {
define('SERVERPATH', dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']));
if(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) == '/'){define('WEBPATH', '');}else{define('WEBPATH',
dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']));}
}
define('SERVERCACHE', SERVERPATH . "/cache");
define('WEBCACHE', WEBPATH . "/cache");`
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- in ~/zen/admin-functions.php, replaced line 149 with :
`echo "n <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect\" value=\"/zen/admin.php\" />";`
As for the customfunctions.php file, the Effervescence 1.01 README file said :
"Perhaps the most IMPORTANT step, make sure that the prefixes in line 6 of [ /zen/customfunctions.php ] matches those you used in your installation of zenphoto. In most cases this should be "zp" or "zp_". Make sure all the table names on that line are correctly labeled!"
Which I did (wrongly ?). But it never worked.
Thinking that that was maybe the key to the problem, I installed the 1.1 version instead, for which no such modification was evoked.
That was no better.
I then discovered thinkdreams, which I thought I installed properly :/.
Here's what I know about what I've done.
(Not always knowing what I was doing though, as I'm very far from being an expert in that matter, as you'd have noticed...)
Again, thanks a lot for your help (and your theme !).