Success porting Gallery2 directly to Piwigo

Andrew Laughland

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Nov 6, 2024, 11:48:18 AM11/6/24

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Thanks for help from members in a couple of threads.

Here's what I have found and achieved...

I have a Piwigo 15.0.0 install on a different CPanel host from the one where I had my old Gallery2 install (which will run mostly if I rewind the PHP version, but that breaks my other sites, e.g. WordPress, and is obviously risky).

On the Piwigo 15.0.0 I was able to install the Menalto2Piwigo plug-in. This is a PHP conversion of the old Perl script that people were talking about.

The plug-in has simple instructions saying where to put the photos and how to import from the database.

So, I transferred the old Gallery2 albums into the Piwigo directory it specified, and clicked Synchronise. Then I exported the Gallery2 MySQL database as SQL from the old server and created a new MySQL database on the new server, imported the SQL, and then entered the database details in the Menalto2Piwigo plug-in, and clicked the button. It also tells you to install the ExtendedDescription plug-in and then the captions appear.

It worked! I can see the captions - the user interface is different but I'll get used to it. The only issue I have found so far is that the photos are on their side and need to be rotated, I think this is an Exif problem from the early days of digital cameras. I believe there is a Piwigo plug-in that will fix that.

I might still try the Gallery2 to Gallery3 conversion as suggested, and possibly try to install on the original server, but I am happy that I now have my old Gallery working on a maintained photo gallery package, and that I've still got the captions. The gallery is only for family members.