[brlug-general] view photos over http?

Joe Fruchey ignavia at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 20:49:51 CDT 2006


Thanks. I'll see about disabling the write features (yay,
open-source!), 'cause I just want to view my own photos.

I'd like to make something with an intermediate image size, like
XGA... I'll see if I can figure it out.

On 10/9/06, Blake Gardner <blake at modiphy.com> wrote:
> 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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