While installing Gallery2, after getting Apache installed on windows, I found that I needed to create a directory that was writable by apache so it could store my image files. I eventually found an article. It wasn’t about Gallery2, but it was close enough.

Basically you have to:

1. go to a user’s “Local Settings” folder (ex. “C:Documents and SettingsDefault UserLocal Settings”).
2. Create a “web” folder
3. Create your writable folder (ex. “C:Documents and SettingsDefault UserLocal Settingswebwritable”
4. Add the folder to the end of your apache configuration file (ex. php_value session.save_path “C:Documents and SettingsDefault UserLocal Settingswebwritable”)

That’s it. That’s all I had to do.

Tags: apache, permissions, windows