A local "server" for pmWiki with added Gallery1 Photo Gallery, using pmWiki Cookbook Standalone as localhost.

ANNOUNCE successful use of pmWiki StandAlone Software to run Gallery1 Photo Gallery WebPages & pmWiki WebPages in my local computer for purely local viewing, photo adding, editing changes, etc. (in other words all the things you normally can do when pmWiki and Gallery.Minalto are on a standard internet server.

SPECIAL NOTE: Gallery.Minalto.com also has a standalone for their Gallery, but we believe it is much more difficult to set up than the pmWiki Standalone. This might be quite attractive to Gallery users, irrespective of whether they want to use any pmWiki WebPages.
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Dear Gallery Users and Developers

I want to share my experience using pmWiki StandAlone micro-server as a localhost server for pmWiki WebPages and Gallery1 Photo Gallery Pages. See: .
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Standalone
http://www.pmwiki.org/
http://gallery.menalto.com/

My son, David Gurr (an accomplished applied mathematician & MRI software engineer) suggested that the pmWiki StandAlone might be a good environment to hold & display a complete local copy of my entire Wiki and Gallery1 WebSite:
http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Main/HomePage
http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/

This auxiliary local copy "site" would be for the purposes of learning a bit about webmastering, editing my pages without worries about breaking my online WebSite, and then uploading the new changed/improved files en mass to the server, using say SCP or WinSCP. (The SCP or WinSCP might also help with general backup/restore.) David observed that this StandAlone, necessarily having a php software to run pmWiki WebPages, would have the ability to run Gallery1 Photo Gallery WebPages, which also need php.

He surmised that it would be easier to convert/adapt/run this pmWiki StandAlone, with Gallery added, than fire up localhost using say a complete Apache Server + Standard pmWiki + Standard Gallery.Menalto.com It turned out that he was right. In some 14 hours, he was able to make an overall working setup that displayed my whole site (from a downloaded copy of it's folders). Most of this time was spent learning php and the innards of pmWiki. My part was to spend several hours checking the various "click points" in the newly running setup. It seemed that almost everything worked correctly!! In Gallery, all the photo and thumbs seemed to be there with all the log-on's and add new photos & edit photo captions etc. In pmWiki all the pages seemed to be there with all the editing & save functions. (Time does not permit an exhaustive check of all possible functions or click points.) So, in summary: It works! Very cool Patrick Michaud !!

If you or others are interested in using Gallery1 with pmWiki StandAlone please contact me. My email address is below.

In summary:
1) If you were wondering about trying standalone with just pmWiki, try it, you will like it!!
2) If you know php, adding Gallery (and even perhaps other php web applications/services), is a do-able task (pmwikiserv.php is only 12KB and very easy to read)
3) If you are interested or have questions, please contact me. I will collect all the email addresses of persons who contact me, and send out to these persons up-dates as to any developments I am aware of. Eventually a final working version might eventually be added to http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Standalone

Sincerely

Henry Gurr

My pmWiki profile is at:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Profiles/HenryGurr

Henry S Gurr
http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/
http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/