coppermine under DA?

[Rich]

I see that some people here are using coppermine under DA.

How is it working for you?

Are there any problems with installing/configuring under DA?

Does coppermine do any compression on the image files? With a photogallery with lots of images I can see how this can eat up storage space on the server quickly.

We have a photogallery and are manually making thumbs, etc. We are starting to look at coppermine, but I would like to know if it will help with compressing files more than .jpg does or does it not help at all with this.

[Joe]

I'm using it on several sites, and it's working great!

Nothing special - very easy to install - skip the image::magick install, just use the built in GD libraries... you can ignore everything about image::magick.

Joe

[ozee]

It's working great for me on two sites under DA. On one of them I'm up to around 100 pix and so far so good. :P

Like Joe said, just do the regular install and skip imagemagic.

[Rich]

Thanks!

Does it do anything to compress images stored on the server? I know .jpg's don't compress much more, but we're starting to have a lot of images.

[ozee]

I haven't noticed that it does compress them much, but it does make its own thumbnails, which are greatly reduced.

You're right - there's not much fluff to take out of .jpg's -- so there's not alot it can do.

[eugene]

The only thing I would suggest is making sure the jpgs are only as big (size-wise) as you need. A lot of people just upload photos directly from a digital camera, not realizing that often it is MUCH larger than what is needed to display on the web.

[Jeff]

Rather than compressing those JPEGs to gain space, you could just buy more disk space. Joe is glad to sell us more and I think it's still just a 1-time charge on the account for more space.

[Joe]

Thanks Jeff - I like the way you think :)

[mlstewart]

I'm trying to configure Coppermine after installing. How do I figure out:

MySQL Database Name:
MySQL Username:
MySQL Password:

Thanks!

Mike

[eugene]

Originally posted by mlstewart@Jan 18 2004, 09:08 PM
I'm trying to configure Coppermine after installing. How do I figure out:

MySQL Database Name:
MySQL Username:
MySQL Password:

Thanks!

Mike Go into your DirectAdmin interface.
Go to "MySQL Databases" and click "Create new Database".
Enter the desired Database Name, Database Username, and Username Password.
Return to Coppermine and enter the parameters
-Eugene

Reference: http://www.site-helper.com/mysql.html#create

[mlstewart]

Thanks!