Using a folder in external drive to display on Single PHP Gallery

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Hey guys,

I installed Single PHP Gallery from the Software list, but I wanted to know if there´s a way for Single PHP Gallery to display pictures I have in mnt/ext/pictures

Right now all the pictures must be in folders under var/www/gallery/

Thanks in advance as usual.
Regards.

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Hi,

I guess PHP Gallery is not capable for this. However you could try to create a sym link from inside /var/www/gallery/Folder pointing to /mnt/ext/pictures. But I’m not 100% if this will work

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Thanks Joulinar for the suggestion.
You mean then to execute this command? ln -s /mnt/ext/Pictures /var/www/Gallery/Pictures

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At least it would be an idea

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Thanks again Joulinar, the link didn´t work after all. I was searching on the index.php file and found this config:

define('GALLERY_ROOT', './');

Set the path of the gallery root, where the images and sub directories containing images is placed.

I modified that path to my mnt/ext and seems ot be working, for some reason CPU usage is pretty high, but maybe it´s because it´s generating all the thumbnails.

Thanks!

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ah that’s a good alternative :smiley:

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Where is this file to modified?

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Should be in /var/www/gallery/index.php.

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It’s works. :slight_smile: Now this is phrase to change:

option('GALLERY_ROOT', './');

Set the path of the gallery root, where the images and sub directories containing images are placed.
The default value is './' which is the directory where the script is placed.

If GALLERY_ROOT is set to an absolute path and SHOW_FILES is set to TRUE, then a symbolic link called "_sfpg_download" will be created in script directory. This link gives web access to the GALLERY_ROOT, enabling download of files.

IMPORTANT: GALLERY_ROOT should always end with a slash like the examples below.

Example 1: './images/'
Example 2: $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/gallery/images/'
Example 3: '/users/bob_the_user/wwwroot/images/my_pictures/'

I thing this option could be on dietpi www software option. :slight_smile:

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not sure if this is going to work. I just tested the symbolic link without issues.

  1. create the folder on USB drive and copy something in
mkdir /mnt/usb/picture/
  1. create the link to the new folder
ln -s /mnt/usb/picture/ /var/www/gallery/MyPicture
  1. refresh PHP Gallery and I can see the new picture

At least this allows to use multiple folders to integrate located on various locations.

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not really, how should we know which folder user like to use :slight_smile:

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only information about a option ;). Like about Samba of FTP servers options.

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not sure if this is going to work

works for me without issue

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More something for our online docs.