How To Rename Gallery Web Directory?

paulmcnelis

Joined: 2008-03-26
Posts: 32
Posted: Sun, 2009-08-23 02:57

I'd like to change the name of the directory that my gallery resides in on my website.

What changes do I need to make in MySql and any files in the gallery directory? (aside from renaming the directory itself)

Thanks!
 
paulmcnelis

Joined: 2008-03-26
Posts: 32
Posted: Sun, 2009-08-23 02:58

Or, do I rename the directory, and run the installer again?

Whatever I do, I want to make sure I don't lose my photos and database info.

Thanks
 
paulmcnelis

Joined: 2008-03-26
Posts: 32
Posted: Tue, 2009-08-25 04:30

anyone?
 
rWatcher
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Posted: Tue, 2009-08-25 04:42

If your gallery is at http://www.example.com/gallery3/index.php and you wanted to rename it to http://www.example.com/photos/index.php you would simply rename the directory and everything should work fine.
 
thebrandons

Joined: 2008-11-08
Posts: 28
Posted: Mon, 2009-10-19 21:58

I tried a simply rename and it almost works. The gallery comes up but all the images are blank. Blank images occur even if I tried to upload a new album. This sounds like the database needs to be updated somehow for this change! Please provide direction as it is necessary to reorganize the directory sometimes.

Thanks,
 
nivekiam
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Posted: Mon, 2009-10-19 22:09

No, you just need to rename the directory. G3 doesn't store the urls or paths in the database. Is your var directory still under your G3 directory?
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thebrandons

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Posted: Tue, 2009-10-20 03:08

Yes it is my server so I just did "mv gallery3 gallery". My problem is solved because I created a new clone of gallery3 and started over. However it may be worth resolving this before going mainstream. I understand there should be no hard coded paths or database dependencies, but has that been verified. Rename the directory is a trivial experiment if someone can confirm it is working/broken.

Recap: I renamed my webserver gallery3 to gallery. After the change I accessed my site www.myserver.com/gallery and everything was there but the images were blank. Maybe this has something to do with ImageMagic, but the Maintenance scripts did not help.
 
nivekiam
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Posted: Tue, 2009-10-20 03:29

verified :)

www.example.com/gallery3/index.php

G3 loads and I'm logged in as admin

mv gallery3 testgal

www.example.com/testgal/index.php

G3 loads just fine and I'm still logged in.

Is there anything in your gallery/var/logs that indicates any errors trying to access the site after you renamed your directory? Did you happen to do an upgrade to newer code at the same time?
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thebrandons

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Posted: Tue, 2009-10-20 20:23

Thanks for doing that experiment! I was dealing with a serveradd issue at the same time (You are helping on that as well). Since your experiment worked I am assuming it was my setup. I have recreated Gallery3 from scratch with GIT.