[brlug-general] view photos over http?
Blake Gardner
blake at modiphy.com
Mon Oct 9 20:31:20 CDT 2006
http://joeyjwc.x3fusion.com/webdev/picturebox/index.php
Did some searching and i found that.
Its a one-file php scipt that reads a directory of images and displays
them.. I may hack this up later with some of my own custom changes.
Joe Fruchey wrote:
> Yes, it's a Linux box... I should've specified.
>
> The default is to view the directory listing, but that's not very
> helpful as I can't *see* the photos that way.
>
> On 10/9/06, Blake Gardner <blake at modiphy.com> wrote:
>
>> Don't rely on your web host strictly as backup storage, at least read up on
>> there policy of backups. dont automatically assume your backups are being
>> backed up lol.
>>
>> Anyway if its a Linux/apache host you can enable directory indexing for
>> that folder, and you will be able to browse /photos/ and get folder/file
>> listings and view pictures.
>>
>> Go into your /photos/ folder and create a file called .htaccess and put
>> this inside of it
>>
>> Options +Indexes
>>
>> Yes its got a dot in front of the file name, its a hidden nix file.
>>
>> Joe Fruchey wrote:
>>
>> I have a hosting account at DreamHost that was just upped to 400GB! So
>> I want to move all my photos there as an off-site backup. Once that's
>> done, I want to be able to browse them via the web. I don't want
>> anything fancy like albums, tags, ratings, etc. (That's what I have a
>> Flickr account for), just something to let me see the photos similar
>> to how a local browsing app would function.
>>
>> I've looked at Gallery, but the folders have to be manually added.
>>
>> Oh, and the organization theme is like:
>>
>> /photos/2006/2006-10-09,Kids_at_the_park/P1040950.JPG
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
>>
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