For new installations: 1. Create a directory to share photos and make it writeable by the web server. 2. Create a database for Gallery 2. MySQL: mysqladmin -uroot create gallery2 mysql gallery2 -uroot -e"GRANT ALL ON gallery2.* TO username@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password'" PostgreSQL: createdb gallery2 -E UNICODE if that doesn't work, try createdb gallery2 -E SQL_ASCII if that doesn't work either, try createdb gallery2 3. Now browse to http://${VHOST_HOSTNAME}/${VHOST_APPDIR}/install For upgrades: 1. Copy over your config.php and the g2data directory. 2. If you are using a PHP accelerator, flush its cache. 3. Browse to http://${VHOST_HOSTNAME}/${VHOST_APPDIR}/upgrade and follow the instructions.