$#!@& Gallery

Last night after I sucessfully loaded up the new Florida Trip gallery I was feeling good about myself, so I tried something I tried back in June, upgrade the gallery script to the new and improved eSPG.

Big mistake. Before uploading the newer version I backed up the existing files (I may be crazy, but I’m not stupid) just in case something bad happened. I made all the appropriate changes to the config files, uploaded the new files, changed all the permissions as required and checked for the results. Sure enough it wouldn’t work, kept throwing server errors. Re-uploaded to make sure I used ASCII and not binary when FTPing. Re-changed the permissions and tried again. Crap, still not working. Seems like this is how it went when I last tried it. I must be doing something wrong, but what?

I erased the new files and put the old files back. Guess what, now the old gallery didn’t work either. Let’s see, now what? Made sure I uploaded them correctly, yep, but still error pages. Last time when the thumbnails weren’t working I emptied the cache files, maybe that would help here. That didn’t make any difference, still no galleries.

I then figured I had nothing to lose, so I uploaded the new gallery files and one directory of pictures. When that failed to work I just went to bed.

This morning when I got up I checked the original galleries and for what ever reason (Internet Elves?) it was working again. I checked the new gallery and I got the main thumbnail page, but clicking on the thumbnail to enter the gallery returned my server error message. I logged on as admin to see if that would work and it did. I could even see the photos that I couldn’t before. The admin functions worked and even when I dropped out on an image, the image would display in public view, but that was it, you couldn’t go forward or backward. Curious. Oh well, at least the original galleries are back up.