Comments on: Gallery 3 Project migration

By: Gwyneth Llewelyn

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:04:52 +0000

Good news for the die-hard Gallery fanatics; the project is back on track, now on GitHub. Dubbed ‘Gallery the Revival’, the current version is little more than some house-cleaning so that it runs well under PHP 7.4, but it pretty much replicates the formerly last available Gallery version (dropping Flash and replacing it with HTML5). More information here: https://galleryrevival.com/

Granted, work is going on mostly on separate branches which haven’t been committed yet to the main branch; also, Gallery relied upon some web services to provide access to translations, plugins, auto-updating, etc. and these are now down. The old forums and wiki are still up, but in read-only mode; current support (and overall discussion) happens on Google Groups only.

I’ve peeked at Piwigo. These days, it’s clearly a far more advanced platform, it looks much better (and has a contemporary look & feel, not a slightly outdated one), and the number of available extensions/plugins beats Gallery3 by several orders of magnitude. Also, Piwigo gets updated constantly — no wonder the guys still loyal to Gallery (like myself!) feel a bit frustrated and falling fast behind…

Oh well.

By: Danny Burdick

Danny Burdick — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:07:14 +0000

Hopefully posting is still working here…Just upgraded with apt dist-upgrade and with the new apache and others it took down my server which had been working for years. I went through many days of hacking and wacking on it..and just now got my box fully updated to stretch completely and reinstalled gallery 3.0.9. Got that stupid oops screen and could not login as admin….Configured myphpadmin and brought it up ….changed password to 12345 as posted various places, and tried all the other cli.php and installer.php hacks….finally the phpmyadmin worked and I quickly logged in and changed it to what I wanted….clonezilled the thing…and now working on rebuilding the thing back. This little server is fine and will still be good for years to come….if I can help it. I am not a software engineer, but I am a rabid pitbull when it comes to not giving up.

By: Danny W. Burdick

Danny W. Burdick — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:54:50 +0000

I have run gallery 3 since it came out on debian wheezy 7 and lately upgraded the os in place to jessie 8 and then to stretch debian 9….with only a few bugs which were not hard to figure out….I did not attempt to install gallery into these new releases of the os but rather upgrade the os in place into an active running gallery 3 webserver and it worked just fine.

By: Serguei Dosyukov

Serguei Dosyukov — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 23:49:04 +0000

In reply to Jens Andersson. it is question best asked on the support forum for the plugin I have not done any such migration myself and it would be hard for me to tell you if it would work or not, Sorry

By: Jens Andersson

Jens Andersson — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:17:48 +0000

In reply to Serguei Dosyukov. I had to re-install piwigo from scratch and thus have move the meta-data from gallery2 to piwigo once more. I copy the gallery2 albums and photos to piwiog/galleries and synkronise. Butt is best practice, apply the Menalto2Piwigo plug-in after each synch, or wait with the plug-in until all gallery2 albums have been synchronised in piwigo? /j

By: Jens Andersson

Jens Andersson — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:33:34 +0000

In reply to Serguei Dosyukov.

So, I think I will try another agenda: Install Piwigo on the old server, migrate the albums from Gallery2 to Piwigo (Menalto2Piwigo plug-in?), install Piwigo on the new server an move the newly created Piwigo albums to it.

Any expected obstacles to avoid during this agenda?

//jason

By: Serguei Dosyukov

Serguei Dosyukov — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 01:26:27 +0000

In reply to Jens Andersson.

it is all depend on your server setup
using manual deployment especially in situation when project (G2/G3) are no longer supported probably would be your best bet
not familiar with Debian server setup much, but on CentOS direct deployment of the code worked easier as you are controlling the entire process while deployment from packages is not necessarily very visible

By: Jens Andersson

Jens Andersson — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:12:54 +0000

I run gallery2 on a Debian Wheezy server. Have to move it to a Debian Jessie server, for moving the albums to a installed and working gallery3 on Jessie. Have earlier tried to install gallery2 on Jessie using two different debian packages, but failed misserably.

1st question: Is the success rate higher if I skip debian packages and go for a “manual” installation?
2nd question: Is the success rate higher if I instead install gallery3 on Wheezy and then move the albums to the Jessie gallery3?

Most thankful for advice.

//jason

By: Serguei Dosyukov

Serguei Dosyukov — Wed, 17 May 2017 14:32:29 +0000

In reply to Matt. Matt, I did not look at any feedback from older version of G2 to PWG. People were ok with G3 > PWG migration and I think view counts were coming across fine I would suggest backup > go to G3 > validate > create test instance of PWG > move > test > go live

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 May 2017 03:59:27 +0000

Hi Serg

I’ve come upon your site with some googlefuu. I’ve got a gallery2 which is running 2.3.2 which unfortunately doesn’t like PHP7.0, rather understandably due to it’s age i guess.

I’m thinking about moving to Piwigo as rather like yours! Will things like view counts transfer with my photos at all? I’d be quite keen not to lose the count, after all i’ve had the gallery since about 2007 and they’ve mounted up!

I’m wondering whether the best route would be to migrate to 3.0 then to Piwigo, what’s your thoughts on the matter?