standalone to pn?

[londonhogfan]

can I move my standalone coppermine into a postnuke module.  Is this possible with out loosing everything I already have in my album?

[casNuy]

Yes, you can move to the Postnuke embedded version, all you need is pnCPG.
There is one issue here, which is your users. pnCPG creates the users from the PostNuke database and not from the Coppermine database.
This means that your users need to be transferred to Postnuke to keep it all compatible.
Now if you have just a few users, this is not a problem to do manual otherwise a small nightmare.
If interesting, i could create a small script that would allow this to be automated.

Cas

[londonhogfan]

well I don't have any users yet.  just me.  Will I need to transfer myself?  I also don't have it in the modules directory.  just in www.mydomain.com/pics instead of www.mydomain.com/modules/pics

I have a few hundred pictures and do I need to move them to my cpg folder or will it pull it from where it already is.  I have had the pnCPG before and loved it but it started messing up so I switched to the standalone.  Now it works great, but I miss having everything embedded in postnuke.  When I had it before everything was in the modules/coppermine folder.

[bangerkcknbck]

I'll give answering this a crack.  If you have PN already installed all you would have to do is have a user name with password that matches coppermine.  I would think that would allow you to log into PN then go to the gallery as the normal user.  Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

It would not matter where you have your coppermine gallery installed so long as in your PNCPG install you tell the module where to find it.  My coppermine site is www.mysite.tld/coppermine so I just had to type into PNCPG /coppermine and it found it without a problem.  The documentation actually recommends that you put the /coppermine folder someplace other then /modules.

[casNuy]

What to say, this covers it !
Thanks,

Cas