App Manager > zenphoto install goes awry

[andyrew]

Hey y'all.

Got a wild hair, and decided to try the App Manager in December.

Great fun.

WordPress install went smoothly (on the surface: haven't done a thing with it, since), but the process for zenphoto went seriously awry.

I don't quite remember the problems associated, but it (effectively) did not proceed as expected.

I managed to un-Install the App, but I was left with a fair bit of cruft I took into my own hands to remove (deletions seemingly-obvious, but neither remembered, nor documented).

Since I have probably the least important and non-visited website on the Planet (this includes me, for the most part, oddly-enough), it was only today that I noticed that I had no permission to access / on [this] server.

The bad bile of teh Adobe-fiasco rose immediately, but I was relieved in being able to access my [un-deprecated] CNC, so there appears to be no extant compromise.

Alas, it seems that my index.html was removed (and, there is no index.php, thus the 403 (I can only guess-to-remember that I deleted anything referring to zp, and deleted the index.php without checking to see if index.html was still there)). Additionally, my .htaccess was revised by the borked zp install.

Luckily, zp-install backed my index.html and .htaccess, so I was easily able to copy-back the originals without having to fiddle with uploading local content.

*whew*

In the interim, I dove into PHP, and have begun to devise my own gallery scripts to great success (locally, that is).

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

I now tarry to install other Apps via the interface if future borks are a possibility....

Thanks for letting me vent some steam.

Regards, Andyrew

[Bob]

Hello,

I just did a test install of ZenPhoto on one of my sites on the GENESIS Server and had no problems (once I remembered my MySQL password )

Now I did make sure I installed to a subdirectory of my /www and not in the /www itself. ie... /www/zenphoto

It did not modify the .htaccess in my /www but did create one in the subdirectory it was installed to.

I have also installed and uninstalled every app listed in the App Manager on different sites I have for testing purposes and while some uninstall cleaner then others I have never had an instance where it modified or touched the files in other directories.

I also uninstalled ZenPhoto just now and the only file left was a favicon.ico and nothing in the /www was touched.

-Bob

[andyrew]

For the life of me, I can't remember exactly what I did.
It does sound suspiciously like I dropped the contents into /www.

Goodness know how I get as far as I do <g>

Thanks for the confirmation, Bob.

Regards...