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Support => Older/other versions => cpg1.3.x Support => Topic started by: Farchord on February 01, 2005, 08:15:03 PM

Title: FTP-dependant Coppermine...?
Post by: Farchord on February 01, 2005, 08:15:03 PM
I have a problem.

I installed coppermine on a webserver, but we don't want to activate http upload at all.

I wanted to know if there was a mod or something that uploads through FTP. We don't want coppermine to write on the webserver through HTTP.

Oh and I know that that might be a security problem, but anyway we only want the admin to have permission to do this. I know that we can do a Batch add from files that are on the FTP, but you still require Write access for the thumbnails and stuff.

Is there a way to fix that?

Thank you very much :)
Title: Re: FTP-dependant Coppermine...?
Post by: kegobeer on February 01, 2005, 08:27:26 PM
There are no FTP mods for uploads.  We don't believe it because of the security risk and so we won't pursue such a mod.

If you don't want Coppermine to do any writing to the server, then you'll have to create the thumbnails (thumb_) and normal (normal_) images yourself and upload them via FTP.

If only the admin will be uploading images, why do you worry about Coppermine writing to the server?
Title: Re: FTP-dependant Coppermine...?
Post by: Farchord on February 01, 2005, 08:33:04 PM
It's.... quite a long story...

We're a windows server. And the guy who has the coppermine site has a certain amout of space on the server, controlled by the FTP server. If he uploads through coppermine, it bypasses the limit...
Title: Re: FTP-dependant Coppermine...?
Post by: Casper on February 01, 2005, 08:55:38 PM
But we recommend that the admins upload by ftp anyway.  Then use the batch add utility.

Please read the docs on this.
Title: Re: FTP-dependant Coppermine...?
Post by: Tranz on February 01, 2005, 09:01:19 PM
Using workarounds to bypass limits may be a violation of your webhost TOS. So the account may get suspended, or if the webhost finds a way to stop the workaround, you will have a broken gallery on your hands.
Title: Re: FTP-dependant Coppermine...?
Post by: Farchord on February 01, 2005, 09:03:37 PM
Quote from: Casper on February 01, 2005, 08:55:38 PM
But we recommend that the admins upload by ftp anyway.  Then use the batch add utility.

Please read the docs on this.

Yeah I did try that but doing that, I get an error saying that 'Unable to create thumbnail'....

Same problem I guess..

And ya Tranz that's the case...
Title: Re: FTP-dependant Coppermine...?
Post by: Joachim Müller on February 02, 2005, 08:31:23 AM
if coppermine can't create the thumbnail, you haven't set up an image library to use with coppermine - it needs either GD or ImageMagick set up properly to work. Please refer to the documentation (http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/manual.php) and FAQ (http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/faq.php).

Joachim