Internal server error when trying to display photos

Ask your host to look at the logs then.

The most likely issue is that you don’t have enough memory devoted to php to allow for it to process your images. If all of the gallery scripts are failing this is the usual cause (and since AWSOM Pixgallery is my plugin I know the most common issues). You will need to talk to your server admin/hosting service and need to have them up your memory limit. Typically it’s only 8mb, which can easily be hit quickly with a large gallery of images. Specifically for AWSOM Pixgallery, one way to get around the issue temporarily is to split your gallery into more pages by setting the Admin->Options->Pixgallery columns and rows options to smaller numbers so that less images are displayed per page of the gallery–therefore less memory used at one time for processing. Once you get all of the images processed (by looking at every page of the gallery) typically you can set the columns and rows to larger numbers–Pixgallery processes and makes the thumbnails the first time you look at a gallery page.

Thanks harknell,

I have looked at the memory limit, which is set to 20Mb, but i will try and use just one image in page to se if that works.

Support at my hosting site say that they think the problem is that mod_rewrite is being used, which they don’t support on a shared server. They can’t however find any errors on the server logs.

I thought from the wordpress docs that mod_rewrite was an optional requirement for use if permalinks were being used – am I missing something or is it used by default when using gallery plugins?

I have now changed web hosts to one that supports mod-rewrites and the problem has gone.

Thanks for your assistance