autogallery image plugin help

I’ve made some comments on the author’s site. Basically, $image_root is the web path to the images (i.e. for https://www.example.com/images/, $image_root is /images/) The article-id is just that, the article id (it is the first column in the list of posts on the post management page from wp-admin).
The script tries to guess the real filesystem path where the images are by appending $image_root to the document root. Depending on your configuration, this may fail (/~username setup, mod_rewrite, etc.). To fix it, all you need to do is comment out or remove the line that says
$searchdir = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].$filedir;
and replace it with
$searchdir = "$searchdir/$id/";
where $searchdir is the real filesystem path where your pictures are located (like /var/www/hosts/www.example.com/pictures or /home/user/public_html/pictures).

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, I still haven’t been able to successfully configure this plugin. Here is what I have so far:

// Settings start

$usehostname = “yes”; // If You want to use the hostname in image-URLs set to yes.
$image_root = “/images/”; // Set this to Your image-root.
$thumbnail_prefix = “^(150|thumbs|thumb)\-“; // Your thumbnail-prefixes as “regexp”
$allowed_files = “(jpg|png|gif)”; // Allowed files as “regexp”.

// Settings end

if ($usehostname == “yes”) {
$usehost = “https://”.$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”];
}

$filedir = $image_root.$id.”/”;
$searchdir = “/public_html/images/$id/”;
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For demonstration purposes only, I will be using post #41. With that said, I created a directory within the images directory such as “/public_html/images/41”. I FTP’d the jpeg into this directory such as “/public_html/images/41/example.jpg

Should it work?

Thanks again,
-SS

Almost. If You upload the thumbnail to it should.

“/public_html/images/41/150_example.jpg
“/public_html/images/41/example.jpg

someone please help us understand.
what does the author mean by:
1. Drop Your images into
/[images-root]/[article-id]/

For example, if my image directory is ‘images’ and I’m posting what wordpress gave ID number: 19
does that mean we should open a new browser window, and type the URL to domain.com/images/19 (19 doesnt exist anyhow)??
or does he means we should create a subdirectory and name it 19, under ‘images’ directory?
is it that complicated?