September 23, 2003
Gallery
Gallery is a steaming pile of monkey poop.
A few months back, I found traces of an attempted hack via Gallery. After doing some investigation, I found that my version had some serious gaping security holes.
Today, I happened to notice that within the last week, my entire Gallery installation had deleted itself (in a fit of existentialism, no doubt). Poof. Gone. There was no longer a directory called gallery/ .
Luckily, the pictures and albums are stored in a separate directory, so I was able to salvage most things. It's a giant pain to have to rebuild the templates and user accounts, though.
I'd use something else, but I'd have to figure out how to import it all. That, and I really enjoy bitching about crappy software.
Posted by Eric at September 23, 2003 10:16 PMNow, now. It _is_ free. :)
Posted by: dennis at September 23, 2003 10:25 PMFree monkey poop is still monkey poop.
Posted by: Eric at September 23, 2003 10:31 PMWelp, we all have to have hobbies.
Posted by: Jett at September 23, 2003 10:32 PMI've been using it for several years without problems. Mind you, I applied the security patches when vulnerabilities were announced.
I've yet to find anything similar that's actually usable, though. :|
Posted by: dennis at September 23, 2003 11:28 PMYou COULD use some gay Macintosh photoshop plugin every time you wanted to upload pix. But Gallery is so advanced in what it does and it IS free, there is nothing really better out there. I'll look thru the logs but of the 2 people that have root on this box, I know neither of us deleted it. Just wack... who knows...
Posted by: Daniel at September 24, 2003 01:02 AMI checked through the apache logs. There's a few hits from Googlebot that succeeded, and then a minute later, all 404s for the rest. I don't think some local user rm'd it. I think an exploit, or just some very piss-poor coding, caused it to delete itself.
I'd never use a system tied to a single OS for website management. That's ultragay. I'm using MT and Gallery now because they work on the 3 OS platforms I use most of the time.
After the initial security problem, I've been patching it routinely. So this may be new. If I find out how to duplicate it, I'll be sure to post detailed instructions here, just so all you bastards have to back up your galleries.
i used to use gallery, but when i ran into maxed out php memory in my shared hosting environment, i had to look for an alternative.
i found coppermine which is also free and uses a mysql db along with php. something i wish gallery did. i've had no problems since i switched.
here's mine:
http://www.cyberdorks.com/photos/
here's them:
http://www.chezgreg.net/coppermine/
Also, try IDS - it's an oddly calm application which requires much l33tness to install [um, or shell access], but the biggest benefit is being able to create a folder in the album directory and upload your pictures via FTP - much, much faster than clicking through a browser.
Posted by: Nyx at September 24, 2003 01:59 PMThat would be IDS, at http://ids.sourceforge.net - bad comments! Bad! You can also see my setup at http://tekhne.ghostdragon.net - if you're so inclined.
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Posted by: Nyx at September 24, 2003 02:01 PMI tried using gallery once, but I didn't care for it. Hmstanfield.com is built solely on MT, which works for me. Takes a bit longer, tho.
Posted by: heather at September 25, 2003 05:23 AMHmm. I've been using Gallery for almost a year now with no major issues. The installation documentation was excessively cryptic, but once I got it up and running, its worked like a champ. I guess your mileage does indeed vary...
Posted by: Thomas at October 6, 2003 09:33 AMOh, and anyone looking for the Coppermine PHP script (the original site is dead) can find it here: http://www.nukecops.com/postt10402.html
Posted by: Thomas at October 6, 2003 09:44 AM