I have used Gallery 1.x http://gallery.menalto.com for years on my site and it always worked well for my needs and sat inside my old PostNuke CMS.

I had tried to upgrade to Gallery 2 at some point but failed.

Now that I really do need to upgrade I have found that the Gallery 3 has been out and stable for some time, but the upgrade process requires G1 -> G2 -> G3 as there is no G1 ->G3 path.

So I am currently working on a Gallery upgrade.

Migrated my old G1 install to my dev server and modified the config so that it would run correctly.

Installed Gallery 2 and tried following the migration instructions. This included a need to Activate the URL Rewrite plugin. This gave me some grief as it would not go past the ‘configure’ option. Until I realised that I need to ‘tick’ the select box ‘Force’ in the PathInfo screen when clicking on Save. This forces the save despite the system not correctly detecting the PathInfo success.

Next I installed Gallery 3 and that is a real improvement over the convoluted process for installing in G2. They have taken the lead from WordPress with the really simple install process. Enabling a migration from G2 to G3 is running and from there I’ll be looking to start doing some themes and plugins.

The purpose is to get my toy car collection visible and start updating as it has not changed in 5 years!