i've got zenphoto up and running for a while now, even integrated it with my foliagemod theme in wordpress. but due to my useless urge to tinker, i tried rotate.php from http://photomatt.net. i added rotate.php to several of my albums, and called the script from the index.php of my wordpress theme and viola, i had a random photos part in the frontpage of my blog. it worked lovely. however, when i browsed through my zenphoto, i noticed that it wasn't functioning normally anymore. when i click on an album, it shows thumbnails, and then the thumbnails would disappear, replaced by the "alt" text link. the photos just wont show. i tried deleting my cache and my albums, and reuploaded everything. but it did not work. every now and then, a 500 internal server error message would show up. all my albums and my cache were in chmod 777. i have no idea whta the problem is. please help! and someone please kill me for ruining my gallery. lol

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /zenphoto/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.37 Server at www.shadesofblack.free1k.com Port 80

oh, and this is the one that shows up..

has this got to do with mysql?

you might check the permissions on your htaccess file. it definitely sounds permission related, not your DB.

can you also remove the rotation functions, and try it without those?

i removed the rotation functions already, and my htaccess looks the same to me. i removed it, and it still does not function properly
i think i'll just install a fresh zenphoto gallery

omg.. i installed a fresh zenphoto gallery, yet it worked just like my old one
i'm desperate to get it back

http://shadesofblack.free1k.com/zenphoto - old gallery
http://shadesofblack.free1k.com/zp - new gallery

both dead

i tried chmod-ing the cache again, and here's what i got:

[00:10:50] 257 "/www/zenphoto/cache" is your current location
[00:10:50] PASV
[00:10:50] 227 Entering Passive Mode (75,126,45,216,129,100)
[00:10:50] Opening data connection to 75.126.45.216 Port: 33124
[00:10:50] MLSD
[00:10:51] 150 Accepted data connection
[00:10:51] 226-Options: -a -l
[00:10:51] 226 92 matches total
[00:10:51] 13322 bytes transferred. (13.9 KB/s) (931 ms)
[00:10:51] SITE CHMOD 777 hong kong_hongkong01.jpg_100_cw85_ch85.jpg
[00:10:52] 550 Could not change perms on hong kong_hongkong01.jpg_100_cw85_ch85.jpg: Bad file descriptor

i'm using smrtftp, the beta version. the bad descriptor thing happened only after i used the rotator function. any ideas why this happen? thanks!

here are my error logs based on my cpanel:

[Fri Nov 17 07:58:41 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zenphoto/zen/admin.php
[Fri Nov 17 07:58:34 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zenphoto/zen/i.php
[Fri Nov 17 07:58:34 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zenphoto/zen/i.php
[Fri Nov 17 07:58:34 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zenphoto/cache/vanity_vanity20.jpg_100_cw85_ch85.jpg
[Fri Nov 17 07:58:34 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zenphoto/zen/i.php
[Fri Nov 17 07:58:33 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zenphoto/cache/vanity_vanity18.jpg_100_cw85_ch85.jpg
[Fri Nov 17 07:58:33 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zenphoto/zen/i.php
[Fri Nov 17 07:58:33 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zenphoto/zen/i.php
[Fri Nov 17 07:55:49 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zp/cache/stolen shots_love14.jpg_100_cw85_ch85.jpg
[Fri Nov 17 07:55:48 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zp/cache/stolen shots_love12.jpg_100_cw85_ch85.jpg
[Fri Nov 17 07:55:48 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zp/zen/i.php
[Fri Nov 17 07:55:48 2006] [error] [client 125.212.121.236] client denied by server configuration: /home/preckie/public_html/zp/zen/i.php

i;m not using modrewrite. and do i have to change my.htaccess in wordpress??

here's my .htaccess in zp, the new album i installed:
# htaccess file for zenphoto
# NOTE: Change the RewriteBase below to the absolute path to your zenphoto directory.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

# !!! Change this to the web path (eg: http://www.example.com/photos --> /photos) !!!
RewriteBase /zp

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R,L]

RewriteRule ^admin/?$ zen/admin.php [R,L]

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?album=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?album=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/image/(thumb|[0-9]{1,4})/([^/\\]+)$ zen/i.php?a=$1&i=$3&s=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/image/([^/\\]+)$ albums/$1/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/\\]+)$ index.php?album=$1&image=$2 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

it's the same as my old .htaccess in site/zenphoto

somehow it worked again. i have no idea why!

oops, didn't work again. i'm getting sick of this

Hi ive got the same problem, but im hosted on win server, so i guess the problem can be in ch mode, you have to write to admin to change it. Was it helpfull?