Gallery Tutorial - Installation

Gallery installation

How to install Gallery on your hosting account

Gallery is included in the Fantastico automated installation tool. If you have a Linux web hosting account with IndicHosts.net, you can install Gallery on your website with just 3 mouse clicks!

In order to do that, please, log into your cPanel from your Customer area and locate the Fantastico icon – a smily blue face, usually situated at the bottom of the icon list.

Once in Fantastico, please find Gallery 2 from the list of applications – search for Picture galleries. Click on it and follow the instructions. In 3 clicks you will be ready with Gallery installation!

How to install Gallery if you do not have Fantastico

The latest version of Gallery can be downloaded from here:

Once you download the release you want, you can upload it to your hosting account using the File Manager tool or via FTP (Learn more about FTP clients and accounts here).

Here is a short step-by-step guide how to upload the file using the File Manager tool:

1. Go to your cPanel - File Manager tool
2. Click on the yellow folder icon next to public_html



3. Click on Upload files



Once the file is up, you need to go to the File Manager (at your cPanel) and to unpack (extract) the file in the desired folder.

How to install Gallery, once you have the files uploaded

• Create a new database from the cPanel – MySQL Databases Area.
• Add a username from the cPanel – MySQL Databases Area and add it to the database.

Open in your browser the following URL: http://yourdomain/gallery2/install/ (provided that you have not changed the name of the gallery2 folder)

Follow the instructions:

1. Select the Language you want and press Begin Installation.



2. Go to your cPanel - File Manager and select the Create New File



3. Name the file: login.txt. Click on the file and select to edit it from the right side of your screen.



4. Paste the code from the Step 2 install instructions at the gallery installation.



5. Click Save on the Editor and then click on Authenticate me at the Installation process.

6. Press Continue till you reach step 3.

7. Select Standard Installation and press Continue to step 4



8. At the Directory Path box, you will be asked to create a folder for the gallery 2 files. You need to go to the folder of gallery2 under your account and to click on create a new folder. Name it g2data and click on Save.



9. Continue to step 5 where you will need to type the database information:

Database Type: MySQL

Database Hostname: localhost

DB username: the username that you created. (the name of the user for the DB you created. Please note that it gets the user prefix. For example if you add a database, called 'gall' and your cpanel username is 'uname' the full name of the database is uname_gall)

DB password: the password for the username.

DB name: username_database (Same rules as the username)

Table Prefix : g2_

Column prefix: g_



10. Click Save and continue to step 6

11. Fill in your admin login details here and Click Save and continue to next step.



12. Continue to step 8.

13. Continue to step 9.

14. Click on Activate Selected Module at the bottom of the page



15. Continue to step 10.

16. Continue to step 11.

17. Click on Go to my Gallery. Installation is completed.