FTP-dependant Coppermine...?

[Farchord]

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

[kegobeer]

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?

[Farchord]

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...

[Casper]

But we recommend that the admins upload by ftp anyway.  Then use the batch add utility.

Please read the docs on this.

[Tranz]

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.

[Farchord]

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...

[Joachim Müller]

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 and FAQ.

Joachim