I have some folders of static html photo albums that I want to upload to the same server where our Drupal install is. I tried uploading them to: example.com/sites/default/files/, but it seems that only that which is uploaded through Drupal can be accessed. (I get a "Page not found" error when I try to go to them by putting in their direct URL.)

Thus, does anybody know how I can upload (FTP) files to the server without going through Drupal and have them be accessible to the public?

Does anybody know how to change the default URL which shows all the image galleries from:

http://foo.com/image

to

http://foo.com/somethingelse

?

I've looked under the "image galleries" settings, "images" settings, and path auto -- but I still can't seem to find it.

I contacted my web host (which also hosts our domain) about setting up another CNAME record (for Google Apps), but they said they only allow one CNAME record.

Is that usual?

Does anybody know why the following is happening?
Question is below choices:

Here is my layout:

This is not happening in my test Drupal install ... any thoughts?

Is there a definitive module or way of doing a simple photo galleries in Drupal?

I looked in the media category. Fast Gallery and Simple Gallery caught my eye, but I'm open to input.

TIA!