Hi, newbie problem here. Installed 1.4.6 on Ubuntu 14.10. Had to mess around with ownership and permissions quite a bit to make it work, as the install script didn't like how it was set up. I'm using it for family/home use, not professional.
My installation is at /var/www/zenphoto
Anyway, I'm trying to make Zenphoto expose my existing photo/video folder, which is as ~/Pictures. I've tried setting a symlink to ~/Pictures in the /albums folder. The Pictures album shows up in the admin console, but is listed as having no images (it's got 17,000 images/videos all in a single folder (red flag?).
Then I tried editing zenphoto.cfg.php to make the album remote, and set it as ~/Pictures directly. No joy.
I feel like I must be missing something really basic, but I don't know what. Do I have too many files in my ~/Pictures folder for zenphoto to parse? Is there a permissions/ownership problem with the symlink or the remote folder?
One last detail. In both approaches, the zenphoto admin panel shows a few thousand images in the gallery, but when I go to view the gallery, it's completely empty (doesn't even show created album folders).