Phoca Forum

Hi,

i installed Phoca with PicLens and it's very cool.
One fact that i didn't like was the RSS file placement which was out my control, so I hacked the code a bit and changed the location from images/phocagallery to images/phocagallery/rss.

I am using an Ubuntu server and my big HDD is used for storing pics and movies for the gallery; I am using a smaller HDD as a cache HDD for the gallery and am using symlinks. I want to keep the big HDD as clean as possible, meaning no extra files thrown in it's directory.

So, a quick explanation would be :

images/phocagallery is symlink to BIG_HDD
images/phocagallery/thumbs is symlink to CACHE_HDD
images/phocagallery/rss is symlink to CACHE_HDD

evidently the thumbs and rss symlinks are on the BIG_HDD; I am not a Linux expert to know if it can be done better but this is how i did the small hack for the RSS files and it works great

correction

I also had to hack the 'thumbs' dir part of the code to work as mentioned above.

I thought that 'image/phocagallery/dirs' will be 'image/phocagallery/thumbs/dirs', but it's not like that
(it's 'image/phocagallery/dirs/thumbs').

I made a small hack in the 'phocagallery.php' in the administrator directory to change it to 'image/phocagallery/thumbs/dirs'.

the reason is that the pictures that i have are pretty important and the directories are only writable to sudo users, and i made a special cache directory on another HDD where Apache can write whatever it wants.

this was done (as mentioned before) with symlinks

Hi, the problem is, there are thumbs folders for every category, for every folder, e.g.:

images/phocagallery/category1/thumbs
images/phocagallery/category2/thumbs

so maybe this
images/phocagallery/thumbs
can cause problems on your site

well, it doesn't cause any problems at all; and it works pretty well with the hack i made

right now my server is holding the original photos on the BIG_HDD which is actually /images/phocagallery and the thumbs on CACHE_HDD which is on /images/phocagallery/thumbs

the dir structure in /images/phocagallery/thumbs is really a mirror structure of the /images/phocagallery structure

maybe i will chnage later from /images/phocagallery/thumbs to /images/thumbs or something of the sort

if it works, then it is great, Jan