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Quick start guide

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Quick start

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.info files

+ These files are used to annotate your photos with extra information, + such as descriptions, which photos should be grouped together in the + album page, and how the photo should be adjusted when presented to the + user. The file should be placed in the same directory as the photos + it describes. If you don't like the name, use whatever you like (and + change the "filename" option above). + + Here's a short sample of such a file: + +
+    group 1-5 My first photos
+    describe 1 Me
+    rotate 1 90
+    adjust 1 1.1 1.1 1.1
+    
+ + The "group" item will cause an entry pointing to that range of photos to + go into the album page. The "describe" item will provide a caption for + the range page. Use "rotate" to turn the picture the right way up, and + adjust to change the colour balance - the values given should be gamma + correction values for red, green and blue respectively, with 1 meaning + no change. + +

Webserver configuration

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+ Following the principles set out by Tim Berners-Lee in + "Cool URIs don't + change", every effort has been made to reduce + implementation dependencies (cgi-bin in the path, .pl extensions) + in PhotoPub URLs, to allow for the + possibility of an entirely different implementation of the same interface + in future. +

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+ Thus, a "standard" installation will be accessed at the URL + +

http://hostname/photopub/{album|range|display}?...
+ + If you installed from a package and are using Apache as your webserver, + this should have been set up automatically, but you may need to deal with + this manually if your configuration is non-standard in some way that + collides with the assumptions we made. +

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+ If for whatever reason you do not wish to do things in this way, you are + mostly on your own for now, but you may find the following settings in + /etc/photopubrc useful: + +

+    albumlinkroot album
+    rangelinkroot range
+    displaylinkroot display
+    
+ + PhotoPub makes links to other PhotoPub pages using relative links, + so everything but the final element in the path of these links + is determined by the URL you access it at. + These settings control what that final element should be - you may for + example wish to change album to album.pl, etc. +

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+ We will try our best to avoid incompatible changes in the + query parameters and script names, although it cannot be completely + ruled out, especially in development releases. +

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General guide

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Reference

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Ganesh Sittampalam
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