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Someone has hacked my gallery3 installation in a way I cannot work out what they did.
The webhost will not help me do the migration or fix the hack.
I tried to use the migration script but there are non-standard characters in my directions so it failed and I put it in the too-hard basket. How did people actually get it to work? I am not smart enough to spend all day every day working out regular expressions I have a full time job.
The webhost will not help me do the migration or fix the hack.
I tried to use the migration script but there are non-standard characters in my directions so it failed and I put it in the too-hard basket. How did people actually get it to work? I am not smart enough to spend all day every day working out regular expressions I have a full time job.
Member
There is a gallery running now I guess. Now I have to learn how to use PuTTY and SSH.
Administrator
Sorry for your trouble but the two gallery to Zenphoto migration solutions listed on our site are pretty old and dead - as is Gallery3 - so they might not work properly anymore.
Sadly we cannot help here. I don't remember how gallery stored images/albums but Zenphoto is file system based. So you can migrate the plain files possible just via FTP. You will loosed any text added to the database via Gallery3 though but all metadata embeded in the images will be imported by Zenphoto.
Sadly we cannot help here. I don't remember how gallery stored images/albums but Zenphoto is file system based. So you can migrate the plain files possible just via FTP. You will loosed any text added to the database via Gallery3 though but all metadata embeded in the images will be imported by Zenphoto.
Member
I am not familiar with Gallery 3, but I have some Perl scripts that I wrote to convert the database of a Gallery 2 installation to Zenphoto.
I zipped up all the folders and images and moved them to the new webserver in their originally named folders, and then used the Perl scripts (using PUtty as you suggest) to transfer the Gallery 2 database details to the Zenphoto database.
I am happy to let you have the scripts - you will probably need to adapt them - if you think it might help.
RichardB
I zipped up all the folders and images and moved them to the new webserver in their originally named folders, and then used the Perl scripts (using PUtty as you suggest) to transfer the Gallery 2 database details to the Zenphoto database.
I am happy to let you have the scripts - you will probably need to adapt them - if you think it might help.
RichardB
Member
I don't think it is really that urgent. No one is really crying out for it. Now I remember why I did not do it 6 years ago! It will be a weekend and spare time project to transfer the captions and gallery text manually. I expect it to take several years.
Member
I was able to just move the photo galleries across to a new zenphoto installation and rebuild the database and it managed to see the galleries. I do have to rename the odd gallery with special characters in the name which if I remember is what KO'd the migration when I tried it in 2019 and I got sick of bashing my head against a brick wall. Russian hackers have now made this decision for me.