[horde] how to fix a borked image gallery?

Tue Aug 18 20:16:51 UTC 2009

   suddenly, i've had a new problem thrown at me.  what was supposedly  
once a working image gallery in this installation of horde has stopped  
being a working image gallery, and here's what i've noticed so far.

   if i mouse over the "Image Gallery" link under "Web Site", i get  
what appears to be a correct URL, which matches what i find in the  
registry.php file:

$this->applications['gallery'] = array(
     'webroot' => $this->applications['horde']['webroot'] . '/XXXXX/gallery',
     'name' => _("Image Gallery"),
     'allow_guests' => false,
     'status' => 'active',
     'menu_parent' => 'website'
);

   so i'm assuming it's going to pop down to that directory on my  
system, and if i "cd" to that directory, i find:

-rwxr--r-- 1 www-data www-data  313 2006-01-03 14:11 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2006-01-03 14:40 themes
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2009-08-18 15:11 _vti_cnf

   assuming that index.php will now be consulted, this is what's invoked:

=====

<HTML>
<HEAD>

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=http://../../../gallery/">

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
function redirect () { setTimeout("go_now()",1000); }
function go_now ()   { window.location.href = "../../../gallery/"; }
//--></SCRIPT>

</HEAD>

<BODY onLoad="redirect()">

</BODY>
</HTML>

=====

   so i'm assuming we now move three directories back up, but there is  
no "gallery" directory at that level, so what can this possibly mean?   
(as i read it, that index.php file requires a "gallery" directory as a  
sibling to my horde webroot directory, is that correct?  or am i  
misreading that?)

   as a test, i just created a gallery directory three levels up from  
that index.php file, tossed a few gif and jpg files into it, and tried  
again and, sure enough, i got a simple list of image file links when i  
clicked on "Image Gallery". nothing fancy, but it seemed to prove that  
that's what was missing and that that's where the index.php file was  
trying to go.

   so if there's no gallery directory up there, how could this ever  
possibly have worked?  under my horde webroot, i can see a "service"  
directory, under which i find editor/htmlarea/plugins/AnselImage/, so  
it looks like the person who set up the Image Gallery initially used  
ansel, but i don't see how the setup as it is can possibly work.  is  
there something obvious that's been deleted?  is there a test i can  
run to debug the image gallery setup?  thanks muchly.

rday