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Coppermine – free image / photo gallery software solution

Mar 17, 2008 by Heather Williamson close Author: Heather Williamson Name : Heather Williamson
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Coppermine Photo Gallery is a perfect solution for creating image / photo galleries whether your creating a gallery to share pictures with friends and family, creating a portfolio for your photography business, or creating a community for photography enthusiasts.Coppermine Photo Gallery www.coppermine-gallery.net began as the brainchild of Gregory Demar, although it's current incarnations the results of a collaboration of 38 developers located around the globe. These developers donate their time working on one of the most feature rich Photo Gallery programs currently available on the Internet licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Közvetlenül a "doboz" Coppermine lehetővé teszi, hogy tegye fotók kategorizálva galériák, fűzhetnek megjegyzéseket és a sebesség a fényképeket, vezetned a fotóalbum a különböző web-faliújságra rendszerek, valamint lehetővé tennék a látogatói számára a kiválasztott képeket küldeni másoknak eCards. Mint látható, Coppermine ad egy erős képgaléria költsége nem több, mint a telepítési idő.

Its Free .. De én Server Run It?

Coppermine nagyon minimális kiszolgáló követelményeknek. A legfrissebb kiadás Coppermine (version 1.4.16) tesztelte az OK Apache (vs 1.3.24 és újabb), vagy az IIS-kiszolgálót, amely MySQL (vs 3.23.23), PHP (vs 4.1.0), valamint a GD könyvtár vagy ImageMagick telepítve.

Bár a legtöbb szerver van ezeket a funkciókat, akkor lehet, hogy egyeztessen a tárhelyszolgáltató kifejezetten a rendszergazda a GD könyvtár vagy ImageMagick. Ezek a könyvtárak létrehozására használt a kép, amely kicsinyített képek jelennek meg a kategória oldalakon a galériában.

Ne aggódj a galéria látogatói, ők is látogasson el galéria használják a fő patak böngészők például az Internet Explorer, Firefox, vagy Opera.

Lehet My Server telepítése Coppermine For Me?

Sok web hosting szolgáltatók usecontrol panel szoftver, hogy a manipuláció funkcióját a webszervert. Sokan közülük, mint a cPanel és Plesk, automatikusan telepíti egy előre beállított programok listája az Ön számára. Mivel a Coppermine népszerűségét és státusza, akkor jó eséllyel találják belül lista megtalálható ezen az oldalon.

A Plesk Control Panel:

1. Keresse meg a telepíthető alkalmazások listája Főoldal kiválasztásával, majd a webes alkalmazások ikonra.
2. Válasszuk ki az Új alkalmazás ikonja.
3. Lapozzunk végig a listán alkalmazások és kattintson a Coppermine.
4. A vezérlőpulton tudatja Önnel, ha az összes szükséges funkciót a szoftver. Ha hiányzik valami, vagy egy régebbi verziója a szoftver, akkor értesíteni kell. Ellenkező esetben, kattintson a Telepítés gombra.
5. Fogadja el a licencszerződést, majd kattintson a Tovább gombra.
6. Értelmében a Telepítési beállítások tétel, adja meg a könyvtárat a telepítést. Ez az alapértelmezett beállítás "Coppermine".
7. Az Adatbázis beállítások címsor, adjon nevet az adatbázisba. Ön Plesk létesítmény biztosít majd az alapértelmezett. Ha szeretné, hogy ez megváltozzon, hogy valami könnyebben azonosítható legyen.
8. Adja meg a bejelentkező nevet, hogy az adatbázisban. Plesk is biztosít egy alapértelmezett érték ezen a területen. Akkor valószínűleg nem fog tetszeni ez a hiba, ezért azt javaslom, hogy valami változik, hogy vissza tudunk emlékezni, vagy legalábbis van értelme a 3 hónap múlva.
9. Írja be a Felhasználói név Jelszó bele megfelelő mezőbe. Írjon e le, ha esetleg, vagy a kiszolgáló rendszergazdája szüksége közvetlen hozzáférést az adatbázishoz kívül Coppermine felületen.
10. Login Jelszó Írja be a Jelszó megerősítése mezőbe.
11. Beneath Ügyintéző Beállítások cím adja meg a rendszergazdai bejelentkezési nevét. Ezt a nevet fogja használni, amikor belép az adminisztráció testület Coppermine magát.
12. Adja meg a jelszót, majd írja be ugyanezt az információt a Jelszó megerősítése mezőbe. A jelszót meg lehet változtatni később a Coppermine Administration Control Panel.
13. Adja meg e-mail címet használt Coppermine tanácsos az adminisztrátor e-mail címe mezőben.
14. A Galéria Beállítások cím, adjon nevet a galéria a Galéria név. Ez jelenik meg a tetején Coppermine minden oldalt a webhelyen.
15. Írd be a rövid leírását a galéria a Galéria Leírás mezőben. Megadhatja a célja a galéria, vagy akár egy kulcsszó gazdag leírása, hogy milyen típusú képeket, hogy a látogató megtalálja itt.
16. Az Egyéb beállítások részben találsz egy listát, hogy a téma közül választhat. Azt javaslom, csak egyszerűen a klasszikus téma van. Ezt meg lehet változtani később az adminisztráció Vezérlőpult.
17. Válasszuk ki a nyelvet használja a teljes Coppermine telepítést. Ez az alapértelmezett angol.
18. Kattintson a Telepítés gombra.

A telepítés befejezése akkor kap visszaigazolást az Ön kezelőpanel képernyőn. A folyamat hasonló lesz a többi vezérlőpult alkalmazások, mint a cPanel. Csak légy biztos, hogy kövesse az utasításokat a képernyőn, és győződjön meg arról, hogy Ön tudomásul veszi, hogy az ön megy. Kevés olyan bosszantó dolog több, mint egy új alkalmazás telepítése, és elfelejti a jelszót, hogy jelentkezzen be, hogy az első éjszaka.

Lehet manuális telepítése Coppermine?

Ha a kiszolgáló nem rendelkezik Coppermine szerepel a kiválasztási telepíthető a webes alkalmazások, vagy ha a kiszolgáló nem rendelkezik a kezelőpanel egyáltalán, akkor is telepíteni Coppermine FTP-hozzáféréssel. Ha nem rendelkezik FTP hozzáférés a szerveren, vagy ha nem biztos benne, ha nem, forduljon a rendszergazdához, és tudják ezt beállítani az Ön számára.

1. Go to www.coppermine-gallery.net and click the Download link located in the link bar at the top of the page.
2. Once on the Sourceforge.net download page, scroll down until you see the File Releases heading. Select the cpg1.4.16.zip or the cpg1.4.16.tar.gz file. As you can see, there are a lot of add-ons and themes that you can use download and install for Coppermine. Once you have your base installation working, you can start applying these add-ons at your leisure.
3. Once the file is downloaded, extract it to its own directory, being sure to maintain its internal directory structure.
4. Open your FTP program and log into your Web server. Upload the files to your server using the Auto mode. This will force all images to be uploaded as Binary files, and all others as ASCII or text files. All of your PHP files should be uploaded in the ASCII.
5. While in your FTP program, select the “albums” directory and change its permissions to 777. Depending on your FTP software it may be referenced as CHMOD settings. If you are unsure how to do this, check your FTP software's help system or your webhost administrator.
6. Change the file permissions of the “include”, “albums/userpics”, “albums/edit”, “logs”, and “plugin” folders to 777.
7. Close your FTP client.
8. Go to your Web server control panel, or contact your administrator, and set up a database for use with Coppermine. You will need to know the database location (often Localhost), database name, the database administrator login name, and the administrator password. You must have all of this information in order to continue.
9. Open up your Coppermine installation install.php file through your Web browser by going to your web site and directory where you installed the program. For instance: http://your_web_site.com/coppermine/install.php
10. On the Install screen, you will need to designate the login information for your Administrator's account. Type your Username, Password, and Email address, into the appropriate fields.
11. Take out your database information, and fill in the requested information for your MySQL database installation. Typically you can use “localhost” for your MySQL Host name, although this may be different for your specific server. If you have trouble using this designation, contact your server administrator.
12. Provide the Database Name, Username, and Password in the appropriate fields.
13. The MySQL Table Prefix box simply identifies the prefix applied to all tables that Coppermine will create within your database. You can leave this with the default setting.
14. If you wish to use ImageMagick for your graphic manipulation software, specify the path to it in the ImageMagick Path field. If you leave these blank, then Coppermine will automatically use the server's GD Libraries, if installed.
15. Click the Let's Go! button once you have verified all of the information you have provided on this page.

Now that your installation is complete, you are ready to start personalizing your new photo gallery. To continue onto the administration panel where you can log in, click the Let's Continue button.

*** Once your installation is complete, create a backup of your include/config.inc.php file using your FTP program.

What If I Have Trouble?

Generally there is little trouble with the installation of Coppermine, but if you do experience issues, you do have options available to you. Here are some of the most common issues that arise with any software installations on a web hosting server. If these suggestions don't help, you can get support from Coppermine's developers at: http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/faq.htm

Do you have the correct software loaded?

Check with your web host administrator asking about any other installations of Coppermine running on their servers. Be sure to let them know what versions of GD Libraries, ImageMagik, PHP and MySQL that Coppermine requires. If your server does not have these programs, they may be able to update them for you. In the event that they cannot, then you can find a variety of other available web hosts that should be able to host Coppermine sites at www.web-site-hosting-reviews.com just be sure to read about each host carefully before you make your decisions.

Are your file permissions correct?

During the installation procedure, Coppermine must have “write” access to a variety of directories and files If these files are not set with the CHMOD permissions of 777 then the installation will not be able to complete. You can often check and change, your file permissions using your FTP software. Because some software doesn't accurately reflect the true file permissions on your server, you may want to change the “ albums “, “ albums/edit “, “ albums/userpics “, “ include “, “ logs “, and “ plugin ” folders to 777 just to ensure the settings are correct.

Did you properly FTP the files for each file type?

When you are uploading your files in mass to a server, you can easily upload some text files in Binary mode. To ensure this doesn't happen, re-upload all of the PHP files using the ASCII file transfer mode within your FTP program.

Do you have the correct information set up for your database?

If your installation is giving you errors referencing your database, you most likely do not have the correct information for accessing it. You can either verify this information by contacting your Web host administrators, or you can reconfigure your databases using your control panel. Make sure to write the information down so that you make no errors when providing this information to Coppermine.

Ok.. Its Installed.. How Do I Make it Work?

With the installation complete, you must configure the software to fit in within your existing web site, and ensure that your site visitors have access. This is also a good time to familiarize yourself with the features of your new software program. If you clicked the Lets Continue button when the installation completed you are now looking at the default Coppermine interface.

When using Coppermine you have the option to control how many of its features function, as well as what it looks like. You can start the configuration by clicking the Config button. Read through this list. As you can see you have the following options available:

General Settings: controls the name, description, contact emails, addresses, and other overall aspects of the gallery.

Language and Charset : allows you to choose between 46 different languages and a dozen character sets.

Themes Settings : allows you to choose between the 9 pre-installed themes, and control menu options, help availability, and link to customized headers and footers; all of which is allowing you to customize the entire look of your site. There are over 50 additional themes that you can download from

Album List View: allows you to control the size of your thumbnails, the total number of albums and category levels to display, and how those albums are displayed.

Thumbnail View: allows you to configure the total number of thumbnails displayed on a single page, and the presence of the file captions and user comments below those thumbnails.

Image View: allows you to control the appearance of your individual images, including size, and the presense of the film strip thumbnails that will by default appear underneath an image when loaded full screen.

Comment Settings: controls the contents of user comments. If you don't want someone adding vulgar language to your photo comments, block them, while controlling how much anyone can say about a specific picture.

Files and Thumbnail Settings: From this screen you can control the dimensions, quality, and file size of any photos that are uploaded to your gallery. These settings allow you to open your photo gallery to uploads by other people, without allowing them to completely bog down your server with overly large images. The Advanced settings section allows you to control what types and lengths of movies that you are going to allow to be displayed. This includes how the image and movies will be stored, how they can start playing for users, and what types of methods must be used for resizing them to best fit with your screen layout.

User Settings : Basically this is the area where you can control who gets to use your board, and what types of access they can have. You can give everyone with admin rights, or no one other than yourself. You can have users that can be temporarily banned, or not allow users to upload images at all. The power is yours.

Custom Fields for User Profiles: If you wanted to set up specific fields for your users profiles to fill in, such as their web site, or full business name, then you can add those here. You only have 6 fields to use, so choose wisely.

Custom Fields for Image Description: As with the Custom Fields for User Profiles, you can set up your own fields for descriptions of images. These may include locations where the photos were taken, specific equipment used to take the pictures, or anything else that might be important to your photo gallery. You have only 4 fields to use here.

Cookies Settings: Coppermine uses cookies to keep track of who has logged in, and keep people logged in through multiple visits to your site. You can find the settings to configure these cookies here, although they rarely need changed.

Email Settings : Coppermine can send email o ut to your gallery administrator, as well as your users. If you need to use an email server that is not located on your Web host you can specify the information for that server here. As most Web hosts do incorporate an SMTP email server, then you shouldn't have to adjust any of these settings.

Logging and Statistics: One feature that most other free online photo gallery software programs do not have is the elaborate and detailed logs that are kept by Coppermine. If you wish to use your logs, turn them on, and then keep checking back. You can learn a lot about how people use your gallery by watching the information you get from them.

Maintenance Settings: Although rarely used, you can force Coppermine into a debug mode that will give you detailed information on any errors that are being generated from your gallery.

In addition to all of the admin settings, which control the majority of your software features, you can control the categories and albums used. You can group your users so that each individual only has access to the photographs or images that you want. You can Ban individuals from using your site at all. You can sort photographs, review user comments, and add files in large batches. There truly isn't much that you can't do with Coppermine. Now that you have the software installed, and the basic configuration done, the best way to really get to know what you have is play with it. Read the included documentation for help.

The Coppermine Photo Gallery development team maintains a large support forum with a very active developer presence. If you ever have any questions, problems, or issues with the software, Coppermine developers seem to average about 2 hours to respond to support requests on their forum. Let this assuage your worries about working with GNU/GPL software. Although you have decided to go with free software, you aren't going to be left on your own.

How does Coppermine Compare to its Competition?

There are a lot of other GNU/GPL photo gallery software programs available that you could use, but Coppermine is definitely one of the best. Hopefully this table, showing some of the specialized features of Coppermine, will help you do a little quick comparison shopping.

Where Can I See Coppermine In Action?

If you want to check out some Coppermine installations before you invest your time and hosting space you may want to take a look at these sites. Some of them are personal; some professional.

Have Anything Else to Suggest?

Overall Coppermine is one of the better choices for setting up an image gallery for your web site. Although it is more configuration intense than other options, it makes up for its learning curve with a plethora of features that just can't be beat with other GNU/GPL software programs that are currently available. If you simply want a fast way to show off a half dozen photos you took on your last vacation, Coppermine is probably over-kill. But if you are wanting to create a true community of family and friends, or even potential business clients, Coppermine will allow you to start of with all of the features you will need, and keep growing as the developers continue to add features to the product.
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Heather Williamson has been a professional writer and author since 1997 when she had her
first IT related book published. Since then she has published 11 more Internet and technology related titles covering the gamut from browser technology, to XML, from Dreamweaver to Linux Applications. She has been involved in Internet related software development for 14 years, and runs her own web development and contract writing firm in East Texas.
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