Installation of Gallery 2 (Black Jack) on Windows XP

System:
Windows XP Professional
Apache 2.0.55
PHP 5.1.1
MySQL 5.0

Download the Installation package from http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Download#Packages
Choose ‘typical‘ as it contains the base application, 6 themes and a selection of popular modules which are enough to satisfy the demands of most Gallery user

Unzipped the package into a folder called ‘gallery‘ in WWW(web server’s) directory

Read the ReadMe, it talks about most of the issues related to installation.

ImageMagic is required for creating thumbnails in Gallery. Download ImageMagic from http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php
Choose package ImageMagick-6.2.9-3-Q16-windows-dll.exe and installed it

GD is another graphics package for Gallery similair to ImageMagick. The GD library is already available as an extension to PHP. So just uncommented(activated) the php_gd2.dll in ‘php.ini‘.

Craeted a directory called ‘Gallery Data‘ for holding image files. (This should be outside webserver’s root)

Created a database ‘gallery‘.
Created a Database User ‘galleryuser‘ with password ‘password‘ with ‘ALL Privileges’ on ‘gallery‘ database.

== Actual Installation Begin ==

Open the web browser and browse to the install directory. Gallery2 will walk you through all the necessary steps. There are 12 steps (detailed in ReadeMe) in Installations and all steps were over smoothly.

During the instalation step an Administrator account will be created. This info is written in config.php in gallery directory.
administrator account : admin
password : password

While installing the modules, I got some warnings. Mainly because some of the required componets were not available in the system.

<snip>

Install Other Modules

* The Archive Upload module was installed, but needs configuration to be activated
* The Ffmpeg module was installed, but needs configuration to be activated
* The NetPBM module was installed, but needs configuration to be activated
* The URL Rewrite module was installed, but needs configuration to be activated.

</snip>

You will be prompted to read the Security related Issues towards the end.

This is the final screen you will see.

== Installation complete ==

NOw created the ‘.htaccess‘ file with the following contents. This is required for restricting unauthorised access.

<Files ~ "\.(inc|class)$">
Deny from all
</Files>

Since windows doesnt allow to creating filenames beginning with ‘.’ , it was renamed using DOS ren command G:\WWW\gallery>ren “New Text Document.txt” .htaccess

Now, begin creating albums…