On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:58 AM, jdd <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 15/03/2013 11:30, tamouse mailing lists a écrit : > > >> What I would suggest, as an alternative to moving big chunks of image >> data around, that as long as you have them in a gallery/repository of >> some kind, is createa custom Page Variable [1] that encapsulates the >> location. Then, if at some point in the future you decide to move >> things from piwigo, you can just change the page variable and have it >> point at the new location. > > (...) > > pretty nice, thanks, I will save this for future use. > > Notice I have no room problem for photos, I got 700Gb+ disk space and use > less than 30% (and I wont link so many photos, hopefully :-)
It wasn't actually the space consideration, as much as the time spent transferring those gigabytes of info, which seems to be where you came in... > > thanks > > I was just thinking than there may be an .htaccess rewrite rule possible if > ever I change photo location That might be possible? But it is pretty arcane, and only works with Apache (and even the Apache folks don't like it). If you moved to a different host down the road, you might end up with a different server, too. To my mind, handling this sort of thing in the application itself, where the most knowledge is *and* where it can be made more obvious what is going on, is much better. But then we begin to talk about application design/development... > thanks again > > jdd > > > -- > http://www.dodin.org > http://jddtube.dodin.org/20120616-52-highway_v1115 _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
