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It is designed to publish photographs on your site in an easy and convenient manner and share your digital pictures with friends and family.
Of course, nowadays you can get a free account on one of the dozen photoblog sites and publish your photo's there but you are stuck with the lay-out and taste of the provider and most of the time that isn't what you had in mind. Also, tweaking your photoblog with extra functionality is impossible.
If you want a real personal photoblog Pixelpost is what you are looking for.
You can fully change this free program to make it as good and attractive as you like. The only thing you need is creativity and some pc skills.
What follows is a step-by-step guide to get you started with Pixelpost.
Requirements
Apache web server or Windows IIS
PHP version 4.3.0 of higher
GD-lib with jpg-support (to create the thumbnails)
MySQL version 3.24.58 of higher
A working MySQL database
Your own domain name
Don't be scared off by these requirements. There are a lot of good providers around how offer these services for a couple of dollars a month.
Please ask your ISP to provide you with the following information:
· Name of the database-host (normal ‘localhost’)
· Username of the database
· Password of the database
· Name of the database
Download and unzip
Download the latest stable version of Pixelpost here
Save the Zipfile somewhere on your hard disk and unzip it.
The folder structure should look like this:
Please examine the different folders and files for later reference. It is important to know where the several configuration files are stored:
Addons Files which give Pixelpost extra functionality
Admin Configuration files
Doc Documentation
Includes Important Pixelpost files (the ‘engine’)
Language Different Language files
Templates Files that give your Pixelpost blog a specific look
Beside the folders you have to create two extra folders manually:
Images Where you store your pictures in
Thumbnails Where you store your thumbnails in
Note:
You need to assign special permission to both the image and thumbnails folder!
In Unix/Linux terms: CHMOD them to 777
We will do this later on with CuteFTP, an ftp client which we will use to upload the files and folders to your provider.
Configuration
1. Open the file pixelpost.php (located in the includes folder) with
Notepad:
Note: (in Windows: right-click pixelpost.php while pressing
Shift, select ‘open with’ and select Notepad)
You need to edit the following lines
$pixelpost_db_host = "change_me"; // database host, often "localhost"
$pixelpost_db_user = "change_me"; // database user
$pixelpost_db_pass = "change_me"; // database user password
$pixelpost_db_pixelpost = "change_me"; // database
Save the file.
2. Now we are ready to upload the files to your provider.
We will use CuteFTP for this. You can download a trail version
here
Install it and connect to the ftp server of your provider.
Now, in the left pane of CuteFTP brows to the pixelpost folder on your
harddisk and select all files (Ctrl + A), right-click and choose Upload:
3. When you uploaded the files go to the right pane and right-click the
‘image’ folder. From the menu choose Properties and change the permissions
to ‘777’
Repeat this for the ‘thumbnails’ folder.
4. Now that all the folders are on the web server you can begin with the
installation. Point your webbrowser to:
http://www.yoursite.com/path_to_your_pixelpostfolder/admin/install.php
Installation of Pixelpost
You are almost done now. Just follow the instructions and start Pixelpost by
pointing your webbrowser to:
http://www.yoursite.com/path_to_your_pixelpostfolder/admin