advise please about setting up User Galleries

[achintya]

Hi

The Coppermine system of Galleries, Albums etc takes some understanding and I am asking for advice.

We have a community of Artists and would like to offer each of them a Gallery or Room to display their own artworks.  This is  therapeutic community so, for administration purposes, we want to set these up for them not have them set them up themselves, then offer an id and password to each artist.

It seems necessary for Admin to set up the users, then to go into each user account to set up a room, or album.  However, when it is done like this, we don't get a list of user rooms on the home page, only the title User Galleries, which needs clicking on to see the full list.

Is it possible to set up a group of User galleries which are then listed on the front page by username when the Coppermine gallery opens?  Inside each gallery there will then be rooms.

thanks for your advice how to do this?  Can someone explain the sequence?


achintya

[Cirno]

The easiest way to do this is by setting the index file of your webserver to the url of the user gallery, by default I think that is index.php?cat=1.

This means you should open the php.conf file and find the line;
DirectoryIndex index.php

Replace it with;
DirectoryIndex index.php?cat=1

Restart the webserver and you're done.

You can also set "URL of your home page" to the same so that they get to the user gallery by pressing the Home button on the site.

Hope this helps you.

Kind Regards
Cirno