Direct Image Linking

In G1, you can right click on a picture, grab the url of the picture itself, and give that direct link to just the image to someone. I havn't had a chance to test this with G2. I am under the impression, if hte G2data directory is stored outside the website this wont be possible. (which can be a good thing for some people). However, can I still set it up so that the pictures can be directly accessed provided the url is correct?

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When you right click on the photo you dont get the direct url, you get the php page for that photo. How am I going to get the direct link in G2? Do I have to use the G2 database and read it that way or is there another way im not seeing?

I need the ability to have the direct path to the image. Even after permissions are set to read the albums folder.

When I try to get a direct link to hotlink an image to post into a forum .. I get something like this

but some vBulletin boards wont reconize that in img tag

how can I translate the url so that it includes ".jpg" so that the other forum languages will reconize it?

The path to my image on the server is:
/g2images/places/2005-04-PointVicente/CIMG2318.jpg

My Gallery

Yes, we do - but only for people with mod_rewrite (URL Rewrite module) though. You may also chose to watermark hotlinked images if you activate the Watermark module.

Download URLs looks like this with the URL Rewrite module:
http://photos.kevinnehls.com/d/31-3/IMG_1058.jpg

hi,

I have configured the url_rewirte and it working well. I have a question on premission of the .htaccess file. I have set the premission to "666", is it correct?

thanks,

I'm still battling this. I've got mod wre-write working and right clicking a photo gives me this URL which vBulletin coughs at.

http//www.gmlsxs.org/d/4360-2/DSCN1579.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=b43246fef5f6b4b9d64cfff638c4e698

Now if I trim off the stuff at the end, my link will work. How can I generate the cleaner URL for the images without having to tell all of my users how to modify the URL when they need to post an image in our forums?

http//www.gmlsxs.org/d/4360-2/DSCN1579.jpg

Thanks!

ZED28, search the G2 forums. This has been discussed many times. Here is one such possible fix: http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=27985&highlight=quick+url

doomdead, other than IIS totally sucking for what it tries to do, I'm not sure what your question is. ;) What about IIS?

I was only razing you ;)

I think you're referring to URL Rewrite of G2. mod_rewrite is an Apache module, getting that to run on IIS probably isn't possible. ;)

I was only able to find a few topics refering to url rewrite iis when searching. Maybe search the G2 forums and read over those threads. Though from the brief glance I took of them it doesn't appear like anyone came to any grand conclusion on how to use IIS's ISAPI rewrite for this.