Simple Picture Gallery Manager Quick Guide
Categories: Web Server
You’ve got a whole bunch of pictures you want to share with the world and want to make a nice, easy to navigate photo gallery to share them with the word? No problem! We’ll show you how to use Simple Picture Gallery Manager, SPGM, to do that!
In this guide, we’ll walk you through installing Apache on a windows machine using a package called XAMPP. There are many different web servers out there but Apache is free and works very well, so that’s what we’ll use in this guide.
Downloading and Installation
First, you will need to setup Apache through XAMPP using our XAMPP Guide . Once you have that running, you will then have have to download SPGM:
http://spgm.sourceforge.net/redirect.php?to=7Download and extract the .ZIP file to C:\xampp\htdocs\Pictures. Once you have it extracted to that directory, your gallery will then be reachable through the following URL:
http:// yourhost.dyndns.com /Pictures/index.php
Replace yourhost.dyndns.com with whatever Dynamic DNS hostname you created on our site:
https://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/Creating Galleries
Galleries are merely directories which contain pictures and/or sub-galleries (sub-directories). They are to be put in the gal directory and may be captioned by inserting among their content a gal-desc.txt text file containing whatever you want (even PHP code). They can also be previewed using icons, pre-defined thumbnails, or even random thumbnails.
Upload .jpeg pictures and their thumbnails and you should be all set!
More documentation about SPGM can be found at this link:
http://spgm.sourceforge.net/?lg=us&id=guide