The error message is saying that the conflict is due to a folder called images. As you can see, you already have a folder named images, which is a folder that coppermine needs. However, it can't create its own images folder because you already have one and that could cause issues.

What you can do is install coppermine in a subfolder of its own. However, this depends on how you want your site set up. Do you want the gallery at the root of your site or as a subfolder?

Since this isn't a Frontpage script, I will move this accordingly.

If you want the gallery to be a secondary site, you should/could put it into a subfolder. That's what I have done. I actually have mine set up as a subdomain: gallery.mydomain.com and gallery is the name of the subfolder. With the gallery in a subfolder, you don't have to worry about the images folders conflicting.

Coppermine is quite straightforward when it comes to the installation. You can use Fantastico to do it for you, or do it manually. Fantastico requires an available database to install, but a manual installation will allow you to install into an existing database. I appreciate its ease of installation after installing other scripts manually. The documentation is quite thorough. Now, there is even a tutorial for it.

I have also installed Coppermine in a sub folder of my Front Page site. Although I did not make it a subdomain. My forum is set up the same way.

The only difficulty I have run into is the fact that I have to do some extra steps to have a backup of my Coppermine and PhpBB files and folders. Since I have the rest of my site on my computer and edit them all there first, I didn't need to worry about the bulk of my site getting backed up.

Hello artdog2,

I am also using Front Page for my site. If you are publishing with Front Page, you do NOT wasnt to use FTP even for a script like Coppermine. What I have done is to go thru CPanel File Manager to upload the files into a folder for Coppermine. Once you have the files there, you can follow the rest of Coppermine's instructions for setting it up. This is done the easiest if you upload the .tar or .zip files and then extract the files with File Manager. Otherwise you will spend a considerable amount of time uploading the individual files with the chance that one gets missed in the process.

Hope that helps.

i went over to internet explorer it is there! but I do not think anything happened

Not you fault I am learning things slowly and for sure the hard way. I am at coppermine now tring to figure out the upload process. My zipped folders are there but the way to get them into the albums in rt place appears  as very confusing to me. What happened to my site in aol ? ctrl-f5 did nothing?  

thanks I am doing this for my school and very much want it to be GREAT! just lack the knowledge but still have the will. Now aol has my site back  PS I am still trying to figure out and hope I do not screw up. My initallk upload is about 50 pics. Maybe I will have to ask for youir help and do it 1 at a time.