NextGEN Gallery : Tables could not created, please check your database settings

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Have you seen the following error when trying to install NextGEN Gallery, FLAGallery or a similar gallery?

NextGEN Gallery : Tables could not created, please check your database settings

For my particular situation, it works like this…

I only have issues with sites that were created prior to a MySQL version update
Those particular databases are encoded – (‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘latin1’)
I have set this value above in my config file or…when set as (‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’)…I get special characters appearing throughout my existing content
That said, when I change my config file to (‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’) I am able to install the gallery without issue
Once installed I change back to (‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘latin1’) and everything works fine

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- Mary
- January 18, 2011
It worked!!! I was working on for 2 weeks…
Thanks a lot~~~~

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