Uploading Files

Well, my first post here but I'll give this a go as my gallery is flying . You could just go check out the documentation link above cause all the answers are there , but you first need to create a directory (folder) in the gallery directory and chmod it to 755, go to your site admin in gallery and scroll down till you find the place to add the paths to the directory you created in your gallery directory. Dont know the path ? heres an easier way than checking out the config.php file
- make a empty php file call it root.php and add this code
<?php
echo ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/");
?>
load that file into the root of your site and point your browser at it . That will show you your absolute root path. back to site admin general page and add that path to the local server upload paths and add the /yournewdirectory. hit save , and that is that. ( best now delete that root.php from the server , and i'd keep a copy in your local tools folder if you have one 'cause sure as sure you'll need to find an absolute path again). Now you can add any files to that folder via ftp and use the upload from local server tab. Keep an eye on this folder though because any ftp users have access to it. I use this method to load large raw files , and then delete them from the directory once loaded.
If you have sub folders/directories in this folder with mutiple pics in them then I believe gallery will upoad these also and create albums from them , so make sure the folders are named as you want them to appear.

Hope that helps and doesn't confuse and that I got it all right. Only been playing with this for a week so have lots of reading to do .... best get back to it.
ciao

Hi Danzman
Fire up your gallery and login as admin.
Click 'Site Admin' link
The page opens by default on general which is where you want to be . Little bit down that page is ' Local Server Upload Paths'.
Enter your path there.

FLUXrider
From the love of the ride good things come

One clarification:
AFAIK, the local server directory has nothing to do with your web server's document root.
As long as the user or group your server runs as has write access to the directory (i.e. permissions are ok and the server isn't chrooted somewhere else, assuming we're talking about Apache here), it can be anywhere in the filesystem. You could even go so far as to say that you should actually keep it outside of your doc root (you wouldn't really want anyone accessing this directory through your webserver).

But hey, if it works, it works ;).

I actually meant that the local file upload directory should not be inside the doc root. I wasn't talking about the directory that you create to find out what your document root is. I don't really see the need to use the value of $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] at all, and I would advise against creating the local file upload directory anywhere under it.

On my system I have /tmp/gallery set up and I have a a symlink in /home/g2_uploads which points to that directory. I could have just set gallery to use /tmp/gallery directly, but this seemed a bit more elegant to me at the time ;).

So now I've clarified my clarification ;).

Thx for this info.. really helped me get this thing rolling!

Quick question... do you know if anyone has made a modification to allow files to be deleted from the local server path after they are uploaded to the gallery? I would like to be able to do this via Gallery rather than using a FTP client since I upload my pictures via IdImager.

Thx!