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ozgreg
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Posted: Fri, 2005-09-16 10:45
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I been hosting with Dreamhost for a few years so I was delighted when they finally introduced one click installs for Gallery2 a few days ago Since Dreamhost also have One Click installs for Wordpress all you need then is the WPG2 plugin and you have one instant photo / video blog.. So head over to Dreamhost and Signup. They really do have very well priced plans and I been running both Gallery2 and Wordpress on the Dreamhost Hosting Environment so I know it works well.. |
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Ozgreg, did you see http://h0bbel.p0ggel.org/item/one-click-gallery-2-install-on-dreamhost-unpossible/ ? ;-)
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Hello all, I have a gallery2 running with Dreamhost. Please see http://gysenbergs.be/gallery2/. Works like a charm ... - J
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Does the one click install setup ffmpeg?
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Yes, it does. It supports the full functionality of gallery
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I'm running my own install on dreamhost, I hate to ask but where are the ffmpeg libraries? I can't seem to find them and I'm having trouble compiling them myself.
UPDATE
Well it's not exactly one click, the one click will setup a database and unpack the files for install. It would be neat if it put defaults (like the database info) into a config file, but I don't if that's something gallery supports.
So.. ffmpeg binaries on dreamhost, did you find them?
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I could not locate the ffmpeg binary. However, you can download the ffmpeg source from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16082
I untarred the source into an ffmpeg folder on my home directory and compiled it per the directions in the INSTALL file, which reads:
1) Type './configure' create the configuration (use './configure
--help' to have the configure options).
'configure' can be launched from another directory than the ffmpeg
sources to put the objects at that place. In that case, use an
absolute path when launching 'configure',
e.g. /ffmpegdir/ffmpeg/configure.
2) Then type 'make' to build ffmpeg.
3) Type 'make install' to install ffmpeg and ffserver in
/usr/local/bin.
Of course, you're going to skip step three, because only root has access to /usr/local/bin. After ffmpeg is built, go into the ffmpeg module configuration page on gallery and specify the location of the binary (the one you just built). Click "Test Settings," and if you're green, you're set.
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just to add to jrandom's post to help out other noobs
I'm a noob and so it took me all day to get the ffmpeg binaries working...
You have to enable ssh/telnet before you can send commands:
Go to your control panel,
Look under Users for your username,
Click Edit,
Select Enable ssh/telnet,
Type: /usr/bin/tcsh (not sure what the differences are but this allows you to see what directory your in in windows' built in Telnet)
Save your changes and wait for your status to be updated to active on the Users page
chmod "configure" and "Makefile" to 744 (not sure if makefile needs to be changed but I know configure needs it)
Now open a command prompt: (Start --> Run --> cmd)
Type telnet, enter your username and password you connect to ftp with, browse to the folder with the ffmpeg files and follow jrandom's steps.
Now just configure your ffmpeg module to the "ffmpeg" binary you've just created.
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Now, if one of you dreamhost users could make that file downloadable for other dreamhost users you all would save some time
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Ask and yea shall get:
Unzip and you should be good to go.
Dave
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I built ffmpeg 0.4.8 (I was having trouble with 4.9-pre1) and it's md5 matches floridaves.
e422e9d942592e4d22933066975e3875 ffmpeg floridave
e422e9d942592e4d22933066975e3875 ffmpeg reconbot
and diff says they're the same, so I'll go ahead and trust his binary (as of my post) and use my own anyway ;-)
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I'll add that to the downloads section on the codex.
Thanks!
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20th of October, 2005 - Pulling my recommendation for Dreamhost, I been hearing many issues with the quality and timeliness of support responses and no longer recommend you consider hosting with Dreamhost until at least they clean up their support act (come on guys, running promotions that encourage yet more signups when it is very clear you do not have the support staff to cover your existing customers is just ruining your reputation)
Wordpress Gallery2 Plug-in Downloads, Documentation & Support Forums
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Really? I've been with them for almost a year now and I haven't had much trouble with them at all. There was a little outage when LA had their blackout, and then some issues with their routers after that, but they fixed it all up and things (for me anyway) have been running smoothly.
I did run into a problem with one of their database servers not responding correctly, but I submitted a ticket and it was fixed pretty fast (less then an hour). They may be hitting up some growing pains (they just added unlimited domians and stuff like that for their plans), and well.. that's unfortionate, I hope they clean it all up. But check out http://blog.dreamhost.com/ they talk about what's going on, heck the recent most post even says they mess things up sometimes, but fix it rather quickly.
As far as support, I've never had a responce time problem, but I haven't had too many problems (maybe 5-10) so ymmv.
Anyway, I still leave my recomendation in.
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I seen multiple threads on WHT/ DH forums complaining about 36+ hour responses, had a few personal complaints from mates about growing MYSQL issues as well on DH I put in my last support ticket (non urgent) and it took 60 hours to respond which prompted me to pull my remaining domain away from DH.
DH been rapidly growing this year (part of a marketing plan) and it has really badly reflected on support. I hosted with DH for a few years and this year has just been a shocker.
The key here is to try to avoid support, but at times you need to contact support and when you do and it be urgent, you may not get the level of support I feel you should be getting..
Wordpress Gallery2 Plug-in Downloads, Documentation & Support Forums
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http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Downloads:Dreamhost_ffmpeg_0.4.8
Better late than never seems to be my new mantra.
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Is there a free hosting service where I could post pictures?
Where friends and family could go directly to pix.
It would be for personal use only.
The last site I was using was a University server that had Gallery installed, and they just allowed me to post images until recently they reorganized, and removed Gallery. Over 4 years I used less than 100 MB of pix space.
For example I like jg's site:
http://gysenbergs.be/gallery2/main.php
Sincerely,
JK
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What directory in the server do I upload the ffmpeg file to? I use Dreamhost.
And what does this mean: "Note: You may need to chmod the file and directory it's in 755"
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jrandom,
you can put it in any directory you like. I created on called /ffmpeg.
as for CHMOD google or:
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/ftp.html
and scroll down to the bottom.
Dave
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Thanks for the reply, Floridave.
I was able to chmod the ffmpeg binary file you uploaded. I created a folder in the parent directory of the server called ffmpeg. I put the ffmpeg file in the folder. When ffmpeg config ask me to input the location of the ffmpeg file. I type /ffmpeg/ . It gives me an error. Saying there is no binary file in that directory. I tried every possible combination and still no luck. What should I do? Thanks again.
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Thanks for the compiled file floridave. As being a noob i like to point out to others the confusing pay i had. I had to decompress the file twice on my computer before i used cuteftp to upload it. First time I used winrar to unzipped it to a 700k file size on my computer. The second time i had to manually decompress by load the newly unzipped file in winrar and the final file name was "ffmpeg" and it was around 2000k. From here I used my ftp program to upload to my host. Everything worked fine when I figured that out.
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You need to put the _full_ path in the ffmpeg config.....
look in your config.php and you will see a line like:
$gallery->setConfigThat is the path to your g2data....note it is not from your root but the servers root. So it might be like:
/home/.yourserver/yoursite/yoursite.com/The ffmpeg module should have a autocompletion JS that will help you out.
Dave
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When I had trouble they contacted me within a half hour.
I would say that is pretty fast service.
http://girlyteck.com
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Floridave I can't seem to get the WPG2 plugin to validate. I can't seem to get the Embed paths set up correctly. Am I supposed to change the Document root path?
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Start a new thread in the proper G2 forum and I can help you out.
Dave
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Have bought today the hosting from Dreamhost. ;-) Now I go to sleep because it's still not avtivated. I can one-click install G2, but even don't know how to see it on the web. %-)
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whatever directory you told them to install it in is where it will be.
For instance mine is http://girlyteck.com/photo it is installed in a directory I named photo.
When you did the one click install it should have created the directory and the data base.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks, I'll try. But the're seem to be lazy a little.
My accound is pending approval for almost some days with
a new domain. During this time I register another domain
with the other host in 2 hours, opened new hosting plan
and installed gallery there, and also prepared some g2
host test. Dream Host is dreaming while sleeping... ;-))
I liked them since their price and promo programm, but
still can't have a pleasure be their client, because I
can't simply test their fucntion because of lack of domain,
even something test...
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log into your panel and send them a messange from the "support" tab.
https://panel.dreamhost.com
Chances are it's something that can be taken care of rather quickly.
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I am a complete noob at this.
I think I need the "Ffmpeg" to show some videos, avi, mov, etc.
Can some one PM me a complete guide for idiots.
Thanks in advance,
TH1CK
DreamHost.com $90 OFF Code: "KILL90"
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It would be better no to PM. ;-) Make it public. Because, for me this question is still open: how to install ffmpeg on your server? (if I catch the ider).
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I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I can't get it to work. I have the G2 installed , I have image block installed in gallery and I put it in the plug ins folder of wordpress, but it does not show up on my plug-ins page in word press. I get this error when I validate the g2 plug-in:
Gallery2 Module: ImageBlock Active?
Where is this file supposed to be exactly? Is it supposed to show up in plug-ins?
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Oh I figured it out, never mind then!
I feel dumb now
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I have been researching hosting, and would like to use Gallery2, WordPress, and phpBB. Had it down to 3 hosts that look good, but am now probably going to go with DreamHost.
See: [url]http://h0bbel.p0ggel.org/item/one-click-gallery-2-install-on-dreamhost-unpossible/ [/url]
Steve Gallagher
http://www.picture.net
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Yester day, I found on dreamhost forum the way to install ffmpeg, that really works. ;-))))
http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=3rdparty&Number=28516&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=all&part=
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Summary--> To install ffmpeg:
-Login to SSH as the owner account of your directory.
-enter: "cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg" this will copy the ffmpeg CVS files into the directory ffmpeg
-enter "cd ffmpeg" navigates to that directory
-enter "./configure --prefix=/home/username" replacing username with your username
-enter "make"
-enter "make install"
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Now it's working on my gallery. ;-) wow!
if any one could consult step by step instuction
how to install dcRAW and where to get small raw file es an example?
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Gallery recommends Dreamhost. If you have a bad experience with them, let us know.
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Been using dreamhost and galley1 and then gallery 2 (since it's been out) and I haven't had any problems. Dreamhost runs a pretty good show. (I joined them: 2005-01-31 and had a gallery since day 1)
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Well, that did it for me! I got it to work! Thanks for the info!
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Yeah this also worked very good for me! Thanks for the information!
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Did simple galleries through Thumbnail Creator on the site, here examples: whether http://popsops.com/main-foto-all.shtml prompt me it is necessary to pass on Gallery 2 if the site is on Dreamhost?
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I'm not sure I understand the question.
If you want to install G2 and import the items you have in "Thumbnail Creator" then the best way would be to import the originals from the file system.
Start a new thread with issues you have as this is not realy a dreamhost issue.
Did you know about the Russian version of this site with suport forums as well:
http://www.gallery2.ru/
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After struggling to get dcraw and ffmpeg to work on my new G2 install on Dreamhost, and after reading all the excellent instructions found here, with no success, I asked DH support about my problem. And this is the reply I got back:
"Sorry but we dont allow the ffmpeg or dcraw mudule to be ran since it
eats up to much resources on a shared server. Let us know if you have any
further questions that we can help you with."
So, is that the final answer? Does anybody have any other experiences, or ways to handle raw files, particularly .NEF? Of course a dedicated server would be possible, but means many more $$$.
Any help appreciated... thanks.
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At least two users above have reported that they have ffmpeg working at Dreamhost.
Does everybody who reported having this working still have it working?
Mike
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Excellent question and I would ask the same about dcraw. Anybody have that working on a shared server? And if so, would you say how you got it working? If a dedicated server is the only solution for raw files, that's close to a deal killer, eh?
Thanks...
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ffmpeg works for me
http://gallery2.ca/Photos/Summer-2006/football/?g2_page=2
don't know about dcraw, never tried, don't need it.
Dave
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Would anyone be willing to install FFMPEG Binary on my Godaddy dedicated server (Linux) for $20? Its not for Gallery2, but for a video script and I see a few of you seem to know alot about it so I'm asking here. **MUST WORK** (Kind of ovious but I thought I would add that part anyways) Please email me or contact me on msn ( harp-er{at}hotmail.com )
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I want to install FFMPEG for my Gallery2 on DreamHost also.
I followed the instructions at http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/FFmpeg precisely.
Still I get the error The path you entered doesn't contain a valid FFMPEG binary.
I am pretty sure the path (/home/crooks/bin/ffmpeg) is correct. Use the 'test' button to check where the error is gave me the following report (please let me know if there is sensitive info in here which should not be public, thanks):
Do you know what this means?
Thanks.
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Have you tried:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/36596#comment-141996
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I have been using Dreamhost for about 6 months now, and I am pretty happy with it. FFMPEG works fine for me. I just followed Dreamhost's Wiki to get it working. One thing to remember is that sometimes you need to use static-linking to get these 3rd party libraries to work.
I noticed that your errors seem to relate to that:
Error Output:
/home/crooks/bin/ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries:
libavformat.so.51: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
Goodluck.
Alvin Hung
Animation Making in Minutes - http://www.MySkits.com.
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floridave No, I haven't tried your method, but likely will if I can not use the DreamHost method (and newer ffmpeg release).
anonp Is a static link of the http://www.... sort? I don't know how to use static-linking to a /bin/ directory. Isn't the /bin/ directory below the website directory (/home/crooks/wcrooks.net/gallery/) and thus invisible to www users? Can I create a /bin/ directory at www.wcrooks.net/bin and use it? Does it need special permissions (chmod XXX)?
Thank you for your observations.
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No, what you do is replace the --enable-shared bit in point 8 of http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/FFmpeg with --disable-shared. It should work then, did for me, at least.
Best regards,
Øyvind Svedman