| 15 Sep 2008 |
Tutorial: Manually install 4images gallery |
This tutorial is part of the Install scripts that are present in fantastico tutorials category
4images is a powerful web-based image gallery management system. Features include comment system, user registration and management, password protected administration area with browser-based upload and HTML templates for page layout and design.
Main Website: http://www.4homepages.de/
Demo Website: http://www.4homepages.de/4images/demo.php
Support Forums: http://www.4homepages.de/forum/
Installation
Step 1: Go to the 4images gallery download center and get the latest release.
Step 2: Upload the files from the archive on your web server using a FTP client (e.g. SmartFTP)
Step 3: Set permissions for the following directories:
chmod 777 : data
chmod 777 : data/database
chmod 777 : data/media
chmod 777 : data/thumbnails
chmod 777 : data/tmp_media
chmod 777 : data/tmp_thumbnails
chmod 777 : templates
chmod 777 : templates/default
chmod 777 : templates/default/media
Set permissions for the following files:
chmod 666 : all files in the directory “templates/default”
chmod 666 : all files in the directory “templates/default/media”
Step 4: Create a fresh new database name.
Step 5: Go to yoursite.com/install.php to begin the installation.
Step 6: Choose English, enter you database information, create a admin user and click Start Installation.
Congratulations! You’ve successfully installed 4images gallery. Now you can go to your admin panel: yoursite.com/admin/index.php.
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I have aprox 6000 photos on a virtual server
(different partition / virtual server / apache)
Can I make 4images see them ?
I’m NOT gonna copy them to the 4images photo directory.
Any Ideas ?
Greetings
Frank