On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:12:08PM -0500, George Dinwiddie wrote: > Hi, Chris, > > Chris G wrote: > >> [1]http://moinmo.in/HelpOnImages > >> > > Yes, I read that, but it doesn't actually work for *any* images that I > > have tried it with. It may work if you're actually sending an image > > from a remote system to the system where moinmoin is running but it's > > total rubbish if you're on the same system. > > The "attachments" stuff if for moin to store the images relative to the > page. That should work for you. > > Are you running in standalone mode, e.g., only serving to a browser > running on the same machine? > Yes, though it could be that it will serve other users on the same LAN/subnet.
> >> now the bit complicated part... your images on your filesystem. I would > >> try to do something like this > >> > >> 1. install some apache and > >> > >> 2. configure the webserver in that way that your image directories are > >> accessible over localhost or your local domain like >> > >> http://yourhostname/images/s000023.jpg << (but you have be careful > >> about your apache security configuration, because if your apache server > >> is > >> also from the Internet available, others can also read directly your > >> images, too) > >> > >> 3. then you can write in your moinmoin someting like > >> {{[2]http://yourhostname/images/s000023.jpg}} > >> > > OK, but *why* doesn't something like:- > > > > file:///my/home/dir/picture/abc123.jpg > > > > work? file:/ is a perfectly valid URL. > > file:// is a valid protocol only if you're on the local machine. It > won't work at all for access from another machine. When you use that > protocol, the moin server isn't involved at all. Instead, the brower > fetches the file directly from the filesystem. > Yes, and that's exactly what I want to do! I could even make it so that the pictures are shared across the LAN with the same pathname so that it *would* work for anyone on the LAN. > > I don't want to put my whole picture archive on the internet. > > The file:// protocol won't work on the internet. > I realise that. > > Not to mention that it would seem that URLs or directories with spaces > > in their names seem to break things too. > > Yes, you have to URLencode them. A space becomes "%20" in the URL. > OK. Using a file:/ URL isn't the ideal answer. What would be much more useful is simply to tell moinmoin that I want to display this image (e.g. /home/abcd/fred/imahe.jpg) without any manipulation at all, no copying, nothing. Presumably moinmoin gets stuff from the 'static' area, can't this ability be extended? I certainly could create a symbolic link from the static area to my pictures directory but I need a way to reference 'static' images in a moinmoin page. -- Chris Green ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
