problems deleting albums folder

bigbear

Joined: 2002-08-16
Posts: 11
Posted: Fri, 2002-09-06 07:51

Hi,

I am clearing up some space on my server and I can't seem to delete the albums folder through CuteFTP. I do not have shell access, only FTP access. How do I go about removing the 'albums' folder?

Another question would be:
Can I host gallery on one server, and have the albums on another? Currently I am running phpBB2 on my server, and it's running out of space. I would like the albums to be in another server which I recently signed up.

The reason I do not want to move the whole thing is because everyone is used to my domain name, and it would be too much of a hassle to either use a different domain name or to change my domain name to point to the new server.

thanks
 
ill
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Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 756
Posted: Fri, 2002-09-06 19:13

You cannot remove the folders created by Gallery using your standard account, because Galley owns the files created through Apache Web Server. See "User Guide", topic "Understanding Unix Permissions". In the same Guide, there is a script in the Section "Scripts" to remove files created by Gallery using PHP. Just place the file in the Gallery directory and start it with your Browser.

Splitting albums and directories. Actually you cannot really. The issue is, that Gallery requires the albums.dat files be available any time. The current code is not able to load them from a remote server (though, this would easily be possible, using open() with an URL. The "Mirror" option requires to have a redundant copy of the files on both servers.

You could use a 0-Point-sized Frameset and "embed" a a remotely installed Gallery there. But then again, your Nuke-based users wont be able to login...
 
vallimar

Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 487
Posted: Sat, 2002-09-07 04:54

Or you could set it up under the new site and just redirect people
from the old location till they get used to the new one.
 
bigbear

Joined: 2002-08-16
Posts: 11
Posted: Sat, 2002-09-07 12:22

Well, thanks to ill, I found the script, managed to run it, and along with the built-in FTP function in WinXP, I managed to delete the albums folder (somehow the script was unable to chmod all the files, used WinXP built-in FTP function to rename the .htaccess file and delete it).

As for migrating, the current webhost for my forum gives me 6 databases, while the one which I recently signed up only gives me two. The recent one has a lot of server space, but service/support isn't that good. So I rather have most of my stuff at the current one and let the image files be with the new one if possible.