So I have been looking for a solution so that all of the family photos I have taken over the years could be backed up on a server and viewed when desired. I also thought it would be good to make the photos available to all family members who want them. I also thought it would be good to have a place for all extended family members to share their photos if they choose to do so. So I did some research on the internet and found this software package called Gallery2.

Gallery 2 is a php based software package which is perfect for my Linux / Apache webserver configuration. Installation was simple. Adding albums and photos was simple. Changing my header to make it look like the rest of my blog was simple as well.

The software appears to have a lot of functionality that I will never use. But that is okay. All I care about is the basics which it does very well.

In less than one week, I was able to install the software and upload and organize all of my family photos taken over the past 5 years. Go ahead and check it out. Just click on the link in the left navigation called Family Photos.

Ran into this issue where the section on the main page called Recently Updated was not updating. 

The solution was  to go into Administration -> Content Indexing and Rebuild the Index.

The official instructions for Confluence is that if that does not work, then remove the <confluence-home>/index directory, restart the application server and then rebuild the index.

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF27/Rebuild+index+from+scratch

This will be a very simple entry.  If you need to redirect one web page to another web page and desire to get a 301 redirect, you simply add one line to the .htaccess file.

Redirect 301 /old.php http://domainname.com/new.php

If you do not have an .htaccess file, simply create the file in the directory that holds the html page and add that line.

This solution only works for Linux / Unix based servers.  I use it on the Red Hat flavor of Linux machines.