Gallery Help Needed

[colinjm]

Hello All,

I've just recently taken on the task of updating an established gallery on a website/forum that I use. The gallery is embedded into the website, and each album shows the members cars, and also has a tech sheet listed below the pics. The tech sheet is simple a file called tech.htm thats put into the album folder on the webserver.

I've worked out how to update existing albums/tech sheets, but i'm stuck on doing new albums/tech sheets. I create a new album easily enough, but I cant ftp the tech,htm file into the folder as it says I dont have permission. When i look at the file manager in the Plesk tool (with host), it says the folders are owned by Apache.

I've spoken to my geeky unix friend who setup/runs the forum and asked him, and he said this...

Geeky guy said:

You can't.

The gallery was installed by Steven (guy who set up website/gallery) and i think he installed it wrongly. It should be set up to run as the user 'mychosenname' but instead he set it to run under the webserver user. As a result it creates new folders that we can't access. was one of the reasons i said it needed updating.

What you'll need to do after creating every folder is email webshost support and ask them to do 1 of 2 things.

1, chown <user>:<group> <folder>
or
2, chmod 777 <folder>

With each of those you'll probably better off using the recursive flag (-r or -R).

Unfortunately because of the way Gridstar is set up we can't change much with out it causing us probs.

Now my geeky friend knows his forum php stuff, but doesnt know anything about Gallery.

I'm wondering is there a way to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance.