"We've found a place to store your photos" - but I don't want it there!

uptpilot

Joined: 2004-05-30
Posts: 28
Posted: Sun, 2012-04-29 18:23

Hello everybody. As a long time Gallery 2 user I'm decided to set up an all new Gallery 3 server as a virtual machine. I want to store the photos on P:, which is a mapped network drive. My objective is to store the photos outside of the VM on my network storage device. The database, PHP, Apache, and Gallery 3 are all to be stored in the VM.

My problem is that when the Gallery Installer starts, it says:

Photo Storage

We've found a place to store your photos:

C:\Apache2.2\htdocs\gallery3/var/

I want to store it in P:/ right from the get go. The field is not modifiable. What can I do to override this?

Thanks
Enrique
 
floridave
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Posted: Sun, 2012-04-29 20:43

Windows is not supported.
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Installation_on_Windows_Server_2008_and_IIS7
networked drives have been known to have performance implications.

Dave

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floridave
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Posted: Sun, 2012-04-29 20:51

FAQ: I want to move my /var directory
I have never been successful but you might be.

Dave
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uptpilot

Joined: 2004-05-30
Posts: 28
Posted: Sun, 2012-04-29 22:38

Dave, I was planning to use a "network drive" as a bridge to the virtual machine's file system. Are you saying that even this is a problem? I don't know how else to store the pictures outside of the VM.

BTW, I will create a Linux VM instead. Which distro do you recommend?

Enrique