I'm trying to get image_gallery to work on a client's system, but whenever client or myself upload any images they are not written to the server. Initially I noticed that even a new album folder was not being created. So I changed CHMOD on assets/image_gallery to be 777 (it was 755). Now when I add an album the folder IS created under this path BUT it's CHMOD value default to 755, and for some reason any attempt to upload images fails as they are not written to this folder.
Now I've tried to manually change permission on newly created album folder but it won't let me (apache sees my FTP user credentials as being different to the folder's owner i.e. Silverstripe user).
So firstly I'm confused why 755 seems to be insufficient for the image gallery upload process to write files?
Secondly if it needs to be 777 how the hell do I get image gallery to default new album folders created to 777 to start with?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks