Gallery

[MoonFaery]

I'm getting an error that I have no clue how I got. I've been using it without any problems and was going to go check something and this came up:

 

Error: Your Userfile is not writeable

 

I'm ususally pretty good with being able to change the permissions to get something to work, but I'm lost with this one seeing as it was just working earlier today.

 

http://www.moonlitrealm.org/photos/

 

Anybody have any ideas?

[TweezerMan]

According to Gallery's Troubleshooting FAQ, something's changed the permissions on your /albums folder from 0777 so that Gallery's scripts no longer have write permission there.

 

The recommended solution is to use an FTP program to recursively set the permissions on the /albums directory and every file/directory in it to 0777 (including the .users directory, which may be hidden).

 

If you are unable to do this with your FTP program, you can submit a ticket to the Help Desk and ask them to do this for you.

[TweezerMan]

I took a look at the Gallery code, and where that error occurs, Gallery is specifically testing /albums/.users/userdb.dat, where "/albums" is the album directory you've configured in Gallery. I guess this would be /photos/.users/userdb.dat in your case...? Anyway, Gallery says it does not have write permission on that file (meaning it's probably not 0777).

[MoonFaery]

Weird.. I checked that last night and it was the right permissions. I checked it again and they are all set to 777. I checked via ftp and the file manager through the cpanel

 

Updated: I went into .users and changed EVERYTHING to 777 and it seems to have worked. I am willing to change some stuff over to 777, but I wanted to make sure that changing everything like that in .users won't hurt me any.

 

Thank you for the help David