Gallery v1.4.2 - moving hosts.

[FyrFli]

Ok, I've scoured this sub-forum and got quite a bit of info. I just want some confirmation and/or clarification on a couple of things:

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I am moving my site off my home server onto powweb and I have an existing gallery installation. Is it ok to just move the directories, chmod the files and re-run the configuration of gallery? Or is there something else I shud probably do here?
My galleries have the original images of 1280x960 resolution on there. I'd like to keep just the 640x480 sized images for space reasons. What happens if I just don't upload the originals with the albums?
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Any input/help would be greatly appreciated.

~Fyr

[Jade Dragon]

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I am moving my site off my home server onto powweb and I have an existing gallery installation. Is it ok to just move the directories, chmod the files and re-run the configuration of gallery? Or is there something else I shud probably do here?

You can do exactly that. Transfer the files and run the config wizard. If you wanted to upgrade to 1.4.3-pl1 then all you need to upload is the albums folder and your config.php


My galleries have the original images of 1280x960 resolution on there. I'd like to keep just the 640x480 sized images for space reasons. What happens if I just don't upload the originals with the albums?
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This can be done but not by deleting the images.

http://www.beckettmw.com/testgallery/

and

http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=824&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90

Is what you need to look at to acomplish this for your existing site.

Then you also want to make sure that the option is turned off in the config wiz to keep the original photos upon upload.

This is done by setting the resize image to 'off' and the max size image to whatever resolution you want like '600'

There's a couple other options along with those two which you will find in the config wizard.

I think that is all you need to get going.
=)
Jade

[FyrFli]

Ok... can I ask a stubborn question tho - suppose I just make a copy of the sized.jpg file and overwrite the large .jpg file with it?

(Edited to add: the config worked ok - had a few bumps, but I got thru it ok. Thanks for the prompt response. :D )

[FyrFli]

Ok - I figured out how it works and can answer my own question...

No - because the .dat files in the album directory would also need to be updated with the changes - so it is best to use the myresize function.

One thing tho - make SURE jhead (or other EXIF preservation program) works unless you will have a annoying stop-error. I had to do the resizing on my PC and upload the albums again cos the jhead that I had put on the site didn't work and it seemed easier for me to do it this way than to troubleshoot jhead at the time.

Well, thanks again for the help.

I am now good to go (assuming I can get this watermarking done today).

[Jade Dragon]

jhead is OS specific.

You can d/l the jhead.exe from here (http://www.sentex.net/%7Emwandel/jhead/)

you will want the one that says for freebsd

upload to your site and chmod 755

set the path in the config wizard

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Jade

[FyrFli]

Gr8 - thank bunches.