I recently purchased a copy of PhotoPost.  Since quite a few people have been sending tickets to support asking whether it is possible to install this on our servers as well as how to install this script, I am writing this installation guide for anyone who wonders about either.

I tested installation both on my Enterprise account (bestgarden.net) and on my danzig account (stoneofendar.com) which is on the EMC storage solution.  Since I only have 1 license for PhotoPost, I removed the stoneofendar.com one afterwards, but I wanted to provide the differences between the 2 installations so that people could adjust accordingly.

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MySQL database creation
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• Log into Cpanel, click on MySQL databases.
• Under Databases, enter a database name in the Db: field.  I used gallery as the name for mine.
  
• Click the "Add Db" button, and the database will be created with the full database name.  This full name is important for later on, so this is the name you will use in referring to your database.  Mine is bestga2_gallery (CpanelUsername_databasename).
  
• Under Users, enter a user in the UserName: field and a password for that user in the Password: field.  I chose dani as my user.
  
• After you are done, click "Add User"  The user that is created is like the database, there will be a full username that is in the form Cpanelusername_databaseusername.  Mine is bestga2_dani
  
• Now add the user to the database.  If you do not do this, you will be unable to access the database.  Directly under Databases:, there is the name of the database, and directly under that are 2 dropdown boxes.  One has User: and a listing of users and the other has Db: and a listing of databases.  Select you user in the User: box and your database in the Db: box, then click the "Add User to Db" button underneath all the check boxes.[/list:o]
  
  File Manager Upload
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• You should still be in Cpanel, click on Home to leave the MySql databases' area, then click on File Manager, then on the public_html folder icon.
• Inside public_html, click on "Create New Folder" toward the top of the folders.
• In the upper right, there will be a field to enter the folder's name. I called mine gallery (lowercase as Apache Linux is case-sensitive), then I clicked the "Create" button.
  
• Click on the gallery folder icon, then click on the "Upload file(s)" black arrow.
• Click the "Browse" button for the first empty box, browse to the zipped content of your PhotoPost file on your local computer (mine is called photopost47.zip) and select it with your mouse to highlight.
• Click the "Open" button and the file's name should now appear in the box.  Click the "Upload" button.
• You are taken back to the gallery folder and will see the newly uploaded file.  Click on the file's name (not the icon next to the file name) and in the upper right select "Extract File Contents" link.
• PhotoPost will extract directly into the folder and you will get a new window showing all the files and folders extracted. Wait until that new window shows all files have been successfully extracted (i.e., it is no longer processing and the browser will have Done at the bottom left).  Click out of the new window, and you will not yet see these extracted files and folders in the gallery folder. Click on the folder icon next to "Up one level", then click on the folder icon next to the gallery folder to go back into it and you will see the extracted files (it is because the folder is caching the previous information that the extracted files don't show until you do this).
• Look for your config-inc.php file in the listing of files (this is not inside the config folder for PhotoPost, it is a file directly in the gallery folder itself).  Check that the file permissions listed to the right of the file's name are 777.  If they are not, click on the file's name, and in the upper right click the "Change Permissions" link and then check each box and click the "Change" button.
  
• Now create a new folder directly inside the gallery folder. Click on "Create New Folder" at the top of the folders (above the Upload file(s) arrow).  In the upper right, enter backups as the name and click "Create"[/list:o]
  
  Web Browser portion
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• Fire up your web browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape, etc.) and enter the url to the install.php file in your browser.  This url for my installation was http://bestgarden.net/gallery/install.php.  It would be the path online to install.php for your account.
  
• You will get a greeting message "Welcome to PhotoPost Install"  Click the "Proceed to Configuration Verification" link.
• There are many fields to enter now.  I have listed them below:

• Click to save, and you are taken to a screen to confirm.
• After clicking the confirmation, you should have a success screen noting that GD2 was verified, then choose the "Click here for a fresh Install" link.
• You would then be at the PhotoPost database configuration area. Because I don't have a form to connect this to, I selected Internal User Registration.

• Click the "Complete PhotoPost Installation" button and you would receive the "PhotoPost Installation is Complete" comfirmation screen.
• Log back into CPanel and click on File manager, navigate to your gallery folder, and delete the file install.php[/list:o]
  
  You have now installed PhotoPost!
  
  To view my copy, please visit http://www.bestgarden.net/gallery
  
  I welcome any questions or comments.  I really like this software, so I am certainly happy to help anyone out with installing it or customization questions.
  
  Have a Blessed Day

Photopost is a very awesome database...I had it on another server that my site(when I had it up) was running on.

Hello,

The path to PhotoPost on your would be /home/CPANEL_USERNAME/public_html/path/to/photopost

EMC can safely be ignored as it is no longer in use on our servers.

If your cPanel login username were 'heel' then the path to your public_html folder would be /home/heel/public_html

If you had photopost installed in the public_html/photopost folder, the path to it would be /home/heel/public_html/photopost

I followed your instructions to the letter but when I get to the put in your url to the install.php file-when I do this in a new web browser I get 500 Internal Server Error and I have  no idea what is wrong! Could someone help me I am not a web person, I am setting up photopost for the first time and was doing fine with the instructions from the following thread

http://www.lunarforums.com/lunarpages_how_tos/how_to_install_photopost-t14553.0.html

until I got to the web browser portion and then I got the error so I am still not able to get photopost installed.

My problem I believe is in this step you posted:
Look for your config-inc.php file in the listing of files (this is not inside the config folder for PhotoPost, it is a file directly in the gallery folder itself).  Check that the file permissions listed to the right of the file's name are 777.  If they are not, click on the file's name, and in the upper right click the "Change Permissions" link and then check each box and click the "Change" button.

I have a file that reads config-inc.php.NEW but it is a text file looks like-that is the only thing I have in the zip close to the above file and I just don't know where to go stuck here. I need plain english as like I said I"m new to this.

Sandra

What problem are you facing?


PHP Web Development

It is a useful tutorial and very helpful. I appreciate you for posting it here