If you need the look and feel of BoysLoveMatures without the legacy baggage, consider a hybrid approach:
This avoids the nightmare of maintaining PHP 5.6. boyslovematures gallery install
If an admin/install.php exists, access it via http://yourserver.com/gallery/admin/install.php. Most legacy versions skip this, requiring you to manually edit gallery_config.php and delete install_lock.txt. If you need the look and feel of
90% of boyslovematures gallery install failures stem from permission issues. Run: This avoids the nightmare of maintaining PHP 5
chmod -R 755 /path/to/gallery/
chmod -R 777 /path/to/gallery/cache/
chmod -R 777 /path/to/gallery/uploads/
chmod 666 /path/to/gallery/gallery_config.php
Enable "pretty URLs" (mod_rewrite) so your gallery pages look like:
Avoid query strings like ?id=234&cat=1.