Wolfgang Müller wrote: >>I'm afraid that there is no user manual as such. There are instructions >>on adding a collection in the GIFT tarball. You can get the GIFT, and >>this information, from http://www.gnu.org/software/gift/gift.html > > > AFAIR there is a stub for a manual which is much older than the current > version of the GIFT. Configuring and hacking the GIFT. > > Can one of the recent newbies tell us what information sources were the most > helpful? > > Ernesto, do you have a timeslice for telling us?
Well, I found a very useful resource for getting started quickly with the GIFT in the Debian Package file "README.Debian", which I report here along with some notes of mine: <readme.debian> So in short you could do the following: * mkdir gift-data * cd gift-data * cp /usr/share/libmrml1/gift-config.mrml . <ernesto> This path is where Debian install gift-config.mrml, if you compile from scratch it is under GIFTServer/gift-config/gift-config.mrml in the source directory </ernesto> * export GIFT_HOME=`pwd` <ernesto> do you a favour and set the GIFT_HOME variable in your .bashrc </ernesto> * gift-add-collection.pl /path/to/your/huge/collection/of/images <ernesto> if you want to test your installation with the Client.php script issue the following: gift-add-collection.pl --image-directory=/path/to/your/huge/collection/of/images --url-prefix=http://hostname/images --thumbnail-url-prefix=http://hostname/images_thumbnails --collection-name=a_name_for_your_collection Configure your webserver so that http://hostname/images points to /path/to/your/huge/collection/of/images on the filesystem: if you don't want to configure your webserver just make a link named "images" under the web server's DocumentRoot directory. </ernesto> * gift & # and hope it runs * gunzip < /usr/share/doc/gnuift/examples/Client.php.gz > \ /path/to/a/webserver/accessible/directory/Client.php <ernesto> The Client.php which comes in Debian doesn't work (at least for me), so here is the one which works (at least for me): http://www.computer-visions.org/dl/Client.php.gz </ernesto> * access the url with a browser and enter the host where gift is running * be happy </readme.debian> Philip, all of the above presume an already compiled/installed GIFT, if this is not the case let us know and we'll guide you through this. Cheers, Ernesto -- web: http://www.cinelinux.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ help-GIFT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gift
