I'm not sure what to do now; it's installed, configured and the thumbs and links on the main page all seem in order. but when I click on the gallery, the second page loads in a bunch of junk. I uploaded a second gallery just to verify and yes, the same thing happens. any ideas?

thanks so much for the support...

http://haute.cc/zenphoto
http://haute.cc/zenphoto/Holga

Can we see a copy of your htaccess and your zp_config files please?

<?php /* PUT NOTHING BEFORE THIS LINE, not even a line break! */
$conf = array();
define("DEBUG", false);

/** Do not edit above this line. **/
/**********************************/

/////////// zenPHOTO Configuration Variables //////////////////////////////
// After you're done editing this file, load
// http://www.gaggu.watchtheworld.org/zenphotodir/zen/setup.php
// to run the setup (of course, replacing the paths where needed).

// NOTE: web_path and server_path are no longer needed! If you're having problems
// with the auto-detected paths, you can override them at the bottom of this file.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Database Information (the most important part!)
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//I TOOK OUT USERNAMES/PASSWORDS
$conf['mysql_user'] = "";
$conf['mysql_pass'] = "";
$conf['mysql_host'] = ""; // Won't need to change this 90% of the time.
$conf['mysql_database'] = "";

// If you're sharing the database with other tables, use a prefix to be safe.
$conf['mysql_prefix'] = "zp_";

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// General Gallery Configuration
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// What you want to call your photo gallery.
$conf['gallery_title'] = "Christine Gacharna Photography: Portfolio";

// Your web site title and address, if you have one. If not, leave blank.
// These are used to link back to your main site, but your theme must support it.
$conf['website_title'] = "haute dot cc";
$conf['website_url'] = "http://haute.cc/hauteblog/";

// If you're in a different time zone from your server, set the offset in hours:
$conf['time_offset'] = 0;

// If you have Apache mod_rewrite, put true here, and you'll get nice cruft-free URLs.
// MAKE SURE TO EDIT THE .htaccess FILE with your path information.
$conf['mod_rewrite'] = true;

// If mod_rewrite is true above, zenphoto's image page URL's usually end in .jpg,
// set this if you want something else appended to the end (helps search engines).
// Examples: .html, .php, /view, etc.
$conf['mod_rewrite_image_suffix'] = '.php';

// Admin interface username (also required for running setup).
$conf['adminuser'] = "hautedotcc";
// This isn't that secure, so don't put anything here you don't want anyone to see...
// (but make sure you change it to something other than 1234...)
$conf['adminpass'] = "MYPASSWORD";

// The email for the admin user. Used to send notification emails.
$conf['admin_email'] = "christine@haute.cc";

// If you're running a secure server, change this to 'https' (Most people will leave this alone)
$conf['server_protocol'] = "http";

// The character encoding to use internally. Leave at UTF-8 if you're unsure.
$conf['charset'] = 'UTF-8';

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Image Processing Configuration
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// JPEG Compression quality for all images and thumbnails (respectively):
$conf['image_quality'] = 85;
$conf['thumb_quality'] = 75;

// Default image display width (themes will be able to control this
// to an extent in the future, but for now you may have to adjust it to fit your theme).
$conf['image_size'] = 595;

// If this is set to true, then the longest side of the image will be $image_size.
// Otherwise, the *width* of the image will be $image_size.
$conf['image_use_longest_side'] = true;

// Allow images to be scaled up to the requested size? This could result in loss
// of quality, so it's off by default.
$conf['image_allow_upscale'] = false;

// Default thumbnail size and scale:
// If $thumb_crop is set to true, then the thumbnail will be a centered portion of the image
// with the given width and height after being resized to $thumb_size (by shortest side).
// Otherwise, it will be the full image resized to $thumb_size (by shortest side).
// NOTE: thumb_crop_width and height should always be less than or equal to thumb_size
$conf['thumb_size'] = 100;
$conf['thumb_crop'] = true;
$conf['thumb_crop_width'] = 85;
$conf['thumb_crop_height'] = 85;
// Add a small amount of unsharp mask to thumbnails? Slows thumbnail generation on slow servers.
$conf['thumb_sharpen'] = false;

// Paging options:
// Control of their display is done in the theme, so you might need to change these
// after switching themes to make it look better.
$conf['albums_per_page'] = 5;
$conf['images_per_page'] = 15;

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Comment cleaning configuration
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Tags and attributes allowed in comments
// Follow the array form array('tag' => array('attribute' => array()))
$conf['allowed_tags'] = array (
'a' => array ('href' => array (), 'title' => array ()),
'abbr' => array ('title' => array ()),
'acronym' => array ('title' => array ()),
'b' => array (),
'blockquote' => array ('cite' => array ()),
'code' => array (),
'em' => array (),
'i' => array (),
'strike' => array (),
'strong' => array (),
'ul' => array (),
'ol' => array (),
'li' => array (),
);

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Path Overrides
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Uncomment the following two lines ONLY IF YOU'RE HAVING PROBLEMS,
// like "file not found" or "not readable" errors.
// These allow you to override Zenphoto's detection of the correct paths
// on your server, which might work better on some setups.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// define('WEBPATH', '/zenphoto');
// define('SERVERPATH', '/full/server/path/to/zenphoto');

/** Do not edit below this line. **/
/**********************************/

$_zp_conf_vars = $conf;

?>

htaccess file for zenphoto

NOTE: Change the RewriteBase below to the absolute path to your zenphoto directory.

RewriteEngine On

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

RewriteBase /zenphoto

RewriteRule ^admin/?&#36; zen/admin.php [R,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]

RewriteRule ^.*&#36; - [R,L]

RewriteRule index.php&#36; index.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?&#36; index.php?page=&#36;1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^page/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/?&#36; index.php?p=&#36;1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/page/([0-9]+)/?&#36; index.php?album=&#36;1&page=&#36;2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/image/(thumb|[0-9]{1,4})/([^/\]+)&#36; zen/i.php?a=&#36;1&i=&#36;3&s=&#36;2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/image/([^/\]+)&#36; zen/i.php?a=&#36;1&i=&#36;2 [L,QSA]

Catch-all - everything else gets handled in PHP for compatibility.

RewriteRule ^(.*)/?&#36; index.php?album=&#36;1 [L,QSA]

Hmm... I really don't see anything out of the ordinary. Have you tried with mod_rewrite turned off?

In your zp-config.php file, try setting $conf['mod_rewrite'] = false;

that did it!!! thank you!

for anybody reading to learn, he meant to change it in "zp-config.php" not .htaccess; it's easy to find the line to replace.

oops, my bad. Yeah, edit the zp-config.php file. I'm glad it worked out. I'll edit my post above.