FTP- What folder?
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zacharyrs
Joined: 2009-06-12
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Posted: Mon, 2009-06-15 17:53
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I have 15GB worth of photos, so it would be best to just ftp my photos into Gallery. What folder do I put these images into, so that Gallery will pull from those images and display? Any help would be greatly appreciated, it's my second time after two years of working with Gallery and hopefully we can make it work per my requirements ;) |
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There isn't a directory you can upload images into and make Gallery automatically read from there. You'll want to look at the Add Items plugin which allows the ability to upload from Local Server. Using that you can FTP your photos, then import into Gallery:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:itemadd
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How do I specify the local path? No idea what this is. I am wanting to put my images in a location such as this: www.domain.com/images/foldername
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Install Gallery and set it up so you can see how it works.
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:itemadd
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I've installed it all very easily. However, I have no idea how to learn my local path of my webserver.
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Log into your site with your FTP client and see if that shows you. It should be something like /usr/www/<AccountName>/ that that is very dependent on your host.
If not, you'll have to ask your host, or if they have good documentation on their site check that out.
I would also recommend creating a directory to upload to. You can upload them to www.domain.com/images/foldername but Gallery won't be serving the images from there. Well, you could use the symlink option, but I believe you may take a performance hit, but if it's more important to not have 2 copies of the images on the server (even for a short time, while Gallery imports 15GBs of images) then there is the symlink option.
Also, if you're on a shared host, you may have problems importing that many photos into Gallery all at once, it really depends on your host.
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