NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Cloud Control Panel. You can access this interface from the New Cloud Control Panel by clicking your username in the upper-right of the control panel and selecting "Classic Cloud Control Panel".

This article will lead you through prepping your CloudSites domain to host a php based photo gallery using "Gallery", an open source and readily available site application.

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Getting Started

If you have not already done so, goto http://gallery.menalto.com/ and download the latest stable release of Gallery.

Here is the link that was current at the time of this article:

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=7130&filename=gallery-2.3-typical-en.zip

or 

http://codex.gallery2.org/Downloads

Setting up the Sites

1. Create your new domain from the Classic Cloud Control Panel with minimum requirements being PHP 4, and MySQL 4 or 5. If you need assistance, you can go here: How do I add a website?
2. Once the domain has finished creating, create your database. To do this, click on the ‘Features’ tab from the top menu. Click ‘Add’, and then select ‘MySQL 4 or 5’. Type in whatever name you would like to call the DB, type in a username and password of your choice. Follow prompts to finish creation. (You may want to write down the information provided, the hostname, database name, database username and, database password.)

Prepare your data

1. Extract the content of the Gallery file you downloaded earlier to your local computer.
2. Open up your FTP client software and login to your new domain. If you are not familiar with uploading content, go here: What FTP software should I use? and use the information to connect provided here: What are the FTP settings for my website? . Your best bet will be to upload everything inside the ‘gallery’ folder contained within the .zip file you downloaded to your web/content folder.
3. Once the files have finished uploading, you are ready to get started with the installation of the Gallery and its settings.

Configure the Site

1. Now go to your URL, www.yourdomain.com. You will see the install page.
2. Click Begin Installation.
3. Download the login.txt file provided on this page, and upload it to your web/content folder. Click Authenticate Me.
4. Click Continue to Step 2. It will install the files to your website.
5. Click Continue to Step 3.
6. From here leave the option that is already checked and click, Continue to Step 4.
7. On this page, it is telling you that the ‘g2data’ folder needs to be writeable. So log back into your FTP client software and depending on which software you need to change permissions or CHMOD the ‘g2data’ folder to 777. (If one is not created already, inside the ‘web’ folder, create a ‘g2data’ folder. Then set the permissions. The installation page also gives you a randomly generated folder name that is higher in security)
8. Click Save on your website page.
9. Click Continue to Step 5.
10. Now the information needed here is provided when you created your Database, if did you not already write them down, you can view this by logging into your Classic Cloud Control Panel and select your domain from the list. Click on the features tab and select the database from the list. After you click it, you will see all the info you need, except for the password. This is only known to you.
11. Fill in the DB Hostname: with the hostname you now have. DB Username: with the database username you created, Fill in DB Password: with the password you created, Fill in DB Name: with the database name you created as well. Once you have filled in those fields, click Continue to Step 6.
12. Fill in the information to setup your admin account. Click Create. Click Continue to Step 7.
13. This says you need to upload a blank file called config.php and place it in your web/content directory. Upload a blank one created in Notepad or a text editor, and set the permissions to 777. Click Continue to Step 8.
14. Click Continue to Step 9.
15. Click Activate Selected Modules. This will show you what modules were installed and what still need to be configured. Click Continue to Step 10.
16. Now the installation recommends that you change permissions to your config.php file back to 644. Click Continue to Step 11.
17. Click Go To My Gallery.

Success

You have now successfully installed Gallery. Please keep in mind that this is a very much used and known PHP application, just like any well used software it is susceptible to exploit. The best way to protect yourself and your data is to update your software regularly, I recommend joining their mailing list, this will keep you up to date on releases and security problems, so you can react accordingly.