Russ

This site save the day for me. I "accidentially" [read: was messing around with stuff I had no reason to be messing around with] repartitioned the hard drive on which I store all my data - 18 months worth of photos, outlook, word docs, quicken (I know, I know, I should have had back up and now do). Local computer store said it was a lost cause and recommended one of those high tech invasive data restoration companies - which quoted me $2,500!!!!!!!!!!!!! The GETDATABACK program (available at the site Bill mentions for a mere $79.00) restored everything! Marriage saved!

This site must (at least in some instances) assemble data from appraisals. My house is listed for the exact value that it appraised for in connection with a recent refi of my home equity line. Added: Or perhaps the appraisal was based on this site or whatever data this site used for its estimate :-)

If you decide to embed Gallery into WP, make sure you follow these steps for configuring your rewrite rule....otherwise it will not work correctly.

I would checkout Gallery. It is not a blog, but has a lot of the features you describe (allowing users to upload and/ or comment). If you have WP, you can embed Gallery in WP with this Plugin (WP2G). Russ

Thanks!

To delete, is it a simple matter of deleting the directory where it is installed? Russ

I am trying to configure an app, I am being asked to give the following: I also need the: Can anyone help?

Thanks, Bruce!

Thanks, Bruce. I cannot get the plug-in to validate in WP unless I set the permission to 666. Should I set to 666 and validate, then go back into cPanel and change to 664? Will the Gallery2 URL Rewrite Rules (whatever they are ) continue to workafter I reset the permission to 664? Under what circumstances will I need (if ever) to change the perimssions to 666 again? Bruce, I appreciate you help on this. Sorry if my questions are basic.

That page does not specifically go into the .htaccess settings. When I was validating the plug in in WP per the installation instructions (here is link to installation/configuration instructions), the instructions during the validation process told me to chmod .htaccess to 644, and if that didn't cause a successful validation, then to chmod .htaccess to 666 . I questioned this on the plug-in's support forum...here is a link to my original post and the responses. Note, the response links to a WP page that suggests .htaccess need to be writeable. Hope that helps. Thank you. Russ

WPG2 - Embeds G2 into WP.

I am configuring a Word press plug-in. In order for it to work properly, the pertinent .htaccess file must be writable. The support forum for the plug-in indicates: I presumed the php is not stand alone since it is on the tch Server; however, with 644, validatiion fails; with 666 validation works. Does this make sense? I would prefer not to have the file to be "world" writable.

Yes, David, that is very helpful. Thanks, again.

Thanks, David. I appreciate your patience with my newbie questuions today. Just curious, what are the G2 database used for then. If this is a complicated question, I understand..."Very complicated" would suffice. :-) Russ

Thank you very much David. That worked - my guess at the password was wrong , but the script did work as intended .

Thanks. I have Gallery 2 installed on my site. I know it uses a database, but I also know that the images file (photos) reside is a file in my root. I presume therefore, that the database is not used by G2 to store the image files. Can files be stored in a database, or is it just for information that is organized and stiored in a database? Thanks the help, and patience. :-)

In doing some research on the internet I came accross this thread in php Addict which suggests that the error is an indication missing "}", but I seem to have all the curly brackets closed?

Hi. I created a database for my Gallery2 installation. I forgot the password, but I have an idea what it might be. I had the idea of writing a script connecting to the database. My theory was this if the connection was successful, I remembered the password correctly. I wrote the following script (with actual "Usename" and "Password" inserted): ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <title>Connect to G2 Database</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.hintzefamily.com/test/Just_A_Test/stylescss/stylesheet1e.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <?php //Script to connect to G2 Database "Connect to G2 Database ini_set ('display_errors" 1); error_reporting (E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); if ($dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "username", "password")) { print "<p>Successfully connected to MySQL.</p>"; mysql_close(); } else { die ("<p>Could not connect to MySQL because: <b>" . mysql_error . "</b></p>"); } ?> </body> </html> When I attempt to run oit, however, I get the following error: I imagine I am missing something basic. Can anyone take pity on a newbie and point out my error? :-)

Trying to understans how databases work. If I create a database to use with an application on my site, I presume that information is stored in the database by application. Where is the database physically located? I presume that is on a file somewhere on my site. Is that correct?

Thanks! I suppose the same would hold true for a blog like word press?

Thanks, Bruce. I appreciate everyone's patience. From the above, this is what I think I understand: files or folders in the public_html directory can be viewed via the web (unless password protects or unless permissions are limited) either via a script or via pointing your web browser to the file (i.e., www.***/file). files or folders that are in the root directory cannot be viewed by pointing your web browser to the file; but can be viewed via a script located in public_html. This is what allows the gallery2+ recommendation to work, the image file that is in the root directory can only be viewed over the web if the person who is viewing it accessed it thru the scripts in the gallery site that is loaded on my domain. So the viewer can see the photo even though is is stored in the root directory. Is the above a correct summary? Thanks, again. Russ

Thanks, Don. So I could load image files into the root directory, and have the file that shows them in Gallery (for example - file.php) in my public_html file, and the the images could be seen over the web? Does that question make sense. Russ

What do/can I do if I forgot/lost password for a database user name?

Thanks for all of the replies. They have been very helpful. PAUL, if I upload a php file (say, file.php) into my web directory, can it access files in the root directory. For example, can file.php access data that is stored in the root directory?

Sorry to be slow, but can someone help me with some vocabulary? If my domain is on TCH and is www.****, what is my "root directory," and "what is my "web directory." When I read about loading files so that they are or are not "web accessible," what does that mean? Must all my files be loaded in "public html"? If I can and do load files "above" public html, are they accessible, and if so by whom and how? Sorry if this is all obvious (and I have been trying to reseach this myself, but have gotten more confused). Thanks in advance for any help! Russ