[TriLUG] Digital Photos, Thumbnails, and Web Pages

[Chris Knowles]

I use the gallery package for this.  Admittedly I already had an SSL
secured website setup so there wasn't much to do, but if you aren't
concerned about encryption then it's hard to get easier than gallery.

CJK 

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 07:48 -0500, Scott Chilcote wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> After taking several pictures at our Thanksgiving event last month, I 
> got requests to send the pictures to some of my relatives.  I'm pretty 
> sure they don't want thirty or so 3-megapixel images arriving in their 
> mailboxes.
> 
> I thought I'd put up a restricted web page with thumbnail images, and 
> let  them download what they want.  My first notion was to make the 
> thumbnails using Imagemagik's convert utility, and .htaccess to keep the 
> pictures from showing up in google's image database.
> 
> Then it occurred to me that someone's probably already found a way to 
> automate this.  I looked on freshmeat and tried "thumbnails", but it's 
> more than what I need.  It has a cgi-bin directory and requires 
> webserver config changes.
> 
> I'm looking for something basic.  I'd write it myself if I had less 
> going on right now.
> 
> What are other people using to accomplish this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Scott C.