Yeah, it's cool when it's set up on people's pages. It's not cool at all if you're trying to set it up yourself, as I have found out. For one thing, I don't understand why the program doesn't run with PHP in safe mode. I'd assume it's called safe mode for a reason, and it wouldn't make much sense to me to disable it. I also completely understand why a company would want to protect themselves in that manner.

So what is the alternative? Run PHP as a CGI. That's great if it will work. So you follow their instructions, which have missing words, and for people who aren't familiar enough with the process (which has been described as quite simple), it's impossible. It doesn't help that my web space is oddly configured, at least when I FTP to it. Add to that the instructions for this whole process. I'll post a few lines from it and see if it makes complete sense to any of you:

4-Create a new directory in your webserver root called php-cgi and put gallery in that directory.
5-Create a new .htaccess file php-cgi directory (the one in your webserver root) and put the following lines in it:
-AddType application/cgi-php php
-Action application/cgi-php /cgi-bin/php.cgi
-That's it. Now Gallery, and any other PHP app that you put in the cgi-php directory

Is it just me, or did they screw up those instructions by mixing up the name of the directory you're supposed to create? If I'm incorrect, I'm sorry, but I was attempting to follow these instructions, and assumed they knew what they were talking about.

Oh, it doesn't matter anyway because I just don't know enough to do this. Damn. I'm going to have to resort to some crappy thumbnail creator. This sucks.