Webpage for photos...

[Guru]

Hi all,

I've got an FTP which I've uploaded about 500mb of images to, I want these to be displayed in a webpage where people have to use a username and password to access it and can view and download the pictures.

I have a server 2008 box and an SBS 2003 box, I would prefer to use the 2008 box to do this.

What's the best way to go about doing this? Share point?

I'd ideally like to host ALL of our family photos on this and be able to setup a read only log in to my wholse family.

Thanks,

G

 

[Guru]

I have considered this:

http://piwigo.org/basics/installation_netinstall

But I am struggling at the first hurdle.

IT is saying that I need this:

A hosting space with MySQL 5 and PHP 5
Full

a webserver supporting PHP *
MySQL 5 *
PHP 5 *
5Mb storage for the software, and much more for your photos *
an FTP client (e.g. FileZilla for Windows or Linux)
and, well, a still camera!

* : all these often come bundled in hosting offers. Check yours.

I'm guessing that none of this is standard on either SBS2003 or Server 2008.

 

[Guru]

I now have the pre-requisites for Piwigo, including PHP. I've installed them all and I'm trying to setup the Piwigo using the automated setup but it's asking for the database name and I don't know it or how to find out.

 

[Guru]

This is what it's asking for:

Database configuration
Host localhost, sql.multimania.com, toto.freesurf.fr
User user login given by your host provider
Password user password given by your host provider
Database name also given by your host provider
Database tables prefix database tables names will be prefixed with it (enables you to manage your tables better)

This is what I get in mysql:

mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql |
| performance_schema |
| photos |
| sakila |
| test |
| world |
+--------------------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

I have tried Database and photos as the database name, but both say "Cannot connect to server"

/nvm I think I'm getting there...

 

[Guru]

I've got it all working brilliantly now apart from one tiny snag that's irritating me...

It spams this all over the page lol:

Warning: strftime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/London' for '1.0/DST' instead in D:\WEBSITE\Photos\Gallery\include\smarty\libs\Smarty_Compiler.class.php on line 400

 

[Guru]

i have tried creating a php.ini file with iust this in it:

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = "Europe/London"

; http://php.net/date.default-latitude
;date.default_latitude = 31.7667

; http://php.net/date.default-longitude
;date.default_longitude = 35.2333

; http://php.net/date.sunrise-zenith
;date.sunrise_zenith = 90.583333

; http://php.net/date.sunset-zenith
;date.sunset_zenith = 90.583333

doesnt seem to have helped.

/edit I put this file in d:\website\photos

Not sure if this is right?

 

[Guru]

Thanks for the link

I am not running apache though, I am using IIS in Server 2008 so I am not sure where the ini file should be.

 

[Guru]

its all a bit beyond my experience but a quick google says that if you've installed PHP using the installer it should be in C:\WINNT\system32

Thanks!! I've put it in c:\windows\ and added:

// --- Europe --- //

// London, England, Europe
date.timezone = "Europe/London"
date.default_latitude = 51.500181
date.default_longitude = -0.12619

No more irritating message for now

 

[Guru]

This piwigo is really good by the way can get some decent addons for it to change appearance etc.