If you’ve looked at the gallery any time in the last two weeks or so, you will have noticed that it was all kind of broken…
My (omg beyond wonderful) web host sent out a message a couple of weeks ago, asking us all to upgrade any scripts we have running on the servers to whatever the latest version is. My happy little photo gallery was the only script I had running, so I dutifully followed all the instructions to upgrade, and…. it ate itself. Even the owner of the hosting company was perplexed at why and HOW it had done what it did, and neither of us could fix it. We tried. Then I tried just totally wiping it out, deleting the database, and starting totally from scratch. That didn’t work either. NO clue as to why Gallery continued to mangle the paths to everything, but it did, so Gallery is now gone.
I ended up having to switch software, and ended up with Coppermine, which seems to work, but takes an enormous amount of tweaking to get stripped down enough to be something I’m willing to deal with (’cos, really, I don’t give a flying fuck which pictures are ‘most popular’. Really. I don’t. Makes no damn difference to me.)
Most of the photos are back up at any rate, at this point, and I’ll keep tweaking until I get it the way I actually like it, and there it will be. And no, there’s not a damn thing in there that’s new. That will come later this week when I will have pictures of Shoal Waters (which I finished yesterday), and two lone socks, both of which (I swear) will have mates soon. Soon, I tellya, soon!
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