I have completed the install and am getting the following error when clicking "You can now View your gallery" at the end of the install -> Error: The 'albums' directory cannot be found or is not readable.

I am running Apache & MySQL on WindowsXP. I have configured the 'zen/config.php' and the '.htaccess' file. I feel pretty confident that they both are setup correctly because when I try different variables within them, I get "page can not be displayed errors". I used MySQL Administrator to create a DB called zenphoto and assigned an account with all priviledges for the zenphoto DB. Going back a page and looking at where the "You can now View your gallery" link resolves to, it is resolving to "www.xyz.com/zenphoto/" (xyz being my domain). I would quess this is correct. Any ideas? Thanks in Advance!

Look at the sticky and all the mentions of this error everywhere else...

Your server_path variable is wrong. Check the config.php... follow the instructions here if you don't know the right one.

After reviewing my serverpath in config.php, I tried changing it from "/zenphoto" to "C:\apache2triad\htdocs\wordpress\zenphoto". Now I can access the "administrate" link from the zenphoto setup first page, but still am still getting the same error about the 'albums' directory when I trying the 'view your gallery' link. I also reviewed my server paths after running the test.php script and noticed all the paths listed were to the 'bin' directories for perl, php, mysql, etc. Should my backslashes be changed to forward slashed in the config.php file ? Thanks!

That server path looks correct...

Oh! Yes, use forward slashes. The backslashes are escaping characters...

You could have just tried forward slashes without asking ;-) Figuring things out by yourself is a good thing

Still no zenphoto. I am able to use all functions of the administrate screen (upload pictures, choose themes, etc), but can not "View Gallery" from this screen. I do not think there is any combination left untried with the config.php. In the .htaccess the only variable I can see worth mention is "RewriteBase /zenphoto", which I believe is correct. Without knowing any PHP, I am guessing the problem starts somewhere in the 'template-functions.php' file. I am able to upload pictures to an album I created called "Desktop Backgrounds". If I force my browser to 'xyz/zenphoto/themes/default/index.php' I just get a blank screen. also I am hoping that the "$conf['mod_rewrite'] = true;" statement in the config.php is also correct.

Did you try disabling the mod_rewrite in the config file? I initially had an issue installing, and doing so enabled me to access the admin interface...(later found that it was an incorect server variable)

By "can not 'View Gallery' from this screen" what do you mean? If you're still getting the same 'albums directory cannot be found' error, then it [i]is[/i] your server path or the permissions on the directory.

I wouldn't try going directly to the theme pages - the template functions and headers aren't included there.

Also try without mod_rewrite, yes.

How about a dump of your config.php?

hey I'm having the same problems. I have searched the forums and tried all the tricks many times over. I'm stumped.

I have modified the config.php and .htaccess files according to the instructions. The MySQL database is setup with appropriate structure and has connected to zenphoto without a problem. the path for my zenphoto stuff is domain.com/zenphoto/
And yes of course I have sucessfully chmod 777 to both the cache and albums folders.

Below are the dumps of my files:

config.php

BTW - I am using the 0.9-beta release