Talk:Gallery

I am new to web programming and I am trying to set p a website for my self. I had installed the Gallery that is available at Dream host.

I am also new to this wiki, so there is a probabilty that I am posting this message at the wrong place.

while going through Wiki I noticed the following:

Quote ''Large galleries with 5000+ images (espicially if being crawled by search engine spiders) may draw excessive processor power and trigger an alert with dreamhost. This can be fixed by either denying bots with a robots.txt file or asking them to delay between page loads. Not all spiders respect the robots.txt, so denying their ip's (or ranges) in the .htaccess file may be necessary'' End Quote.

I want the robots to visist my website, but do not want them to go through the entire Gallery. Is there a way i could prevent them from doing this. I also do not know much about robot.txt and .htaccess. Can sombody provide me some good links where I could read about them and implement them on my site.

Thanks.

Can't make thumbnails of large images
I've been unable to get thumbnails out of large images using any of the techniques described. I've tried adding the following to .htaccess  php_value memory_limit 16M 

php_value memory_limit 16000000

and then switching image processors: GD, ImageMagick, NetPBM.

I also tried looking for error logs but after setting buffered debug mode, I never found any errors by searching for the keywords "executing"..."Regular output:"..."Error output:", "ImageMagick", "GD", "NetPBM".

Any thoughts? I'll note that NetPBM is the best of the bunch so far because, although it shows the broken image icon, when attempting to view the image page, I don't get a yucky server error like with the others.

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I found that Dreamhost was killing my thumbnail generation for pictures from my new 10MP camera, even though I was using database locking. When I complained to customer support, I got the following response: "The images you are trying to upload are putting too much strain on the server... the only solution I can think of would be to manually lower the image size before uploading...." Therefore, I would personally recommend that you avoid using Dreamhost to host your photos. --Neonleonb 21:42, 8 November 2007 (PST)


 * If you think that full resolution pictures from a 10MP camera are suitable for web hosting, maybe you need to change your outrageous expectations or better yet log off the intratubes forever. --Skydivemike 06:26, 21 January 2008 (PST)

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errors with Remote plugin clients (such as iPhotoToGallery)
I kept getting a 1001 error in iPhotoToGallery (http://zwily.com/iphoto/). i'm fairly certain I had the newest version of the Remote plugin, but on a whim I uninstalled and deleted it and then installed the newest version, and my problems were solved! get the newest version here: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Download#Modules

Gallery 3
Looks like Gallery 3 is ready: http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3.0_released

Any chance dreamhost will update the one click installer?