Topic: Gallery multiple installs

[Brenno]

Hello,

I'm toying with the idea of installing multiple copies of Gallery on my 6.0b2 machine.  The reason for this is that we might begin hosting several small real estate sites, and each would require an independent photo gallery which the owner would be able to use to upload and manage their own photos.  Visitors to the site would only be able to access the galleries specific to that site and do this without logging in. (This is the primary reason why I think we'd need separate installations of Gallery to do this.)

I already have one install of Gallery on my server now, and I've heavily customized it with a MySQL interface which allows users to post messages and comments for each picture.  I know I could use a common database for all sites hosted by using different tables for each site, so that's not hard.

I just want to be sure, before I attempt this, that I can install multiple copies of gallery, likely each in it's own ibay, without each install affecting settings or databases of the other.

Has anybody done this?  Is there a better way to go about this problem?  Are there other software packages out there that might be more accomodating to this?

Thanks for your help!

[gbaird]

Take a look at coppermine gallery

it may be easier to setup for your needs

[ajkeane]

You should have nop problems with multiple installs as long as you set up seperate mysql databases for each.

Tony

[Brenno]

Tony,

As the version of gallery I run is not in itself MySQL dependant, I know that the default configuration upon a new install won't affect the databases I created.  I was more concerned with server settings or other things that might conflict, especially the image databases that Gallery creates.

[ajkeane]

Brenno

Sorry about that should have turned the brain on before posting a reply. I am certian that I have had at least two installs of Gallery running at the same time in different ibays with no trouble. I currently have gallery installed an a module in Xoops and also in an ibay with no trouble.

I hope this helps.

Tony

[Boris]

It shouldn't be a problem to install multiple copy of gallery in the different ibays as long as you paying attention while configuring it to the albums location and URLs. Don't use shared installation to /opt and primary ibay per old how-to (from Dan Brown). Use one for installing it to ibay.

[del]

Hi brenno,
Maybe this will be of interest to you: http://www.open-realty.org
Regards,
Del

[Brenno]

Damn, del.  You may have just saved me hours of coding!!  Man, I love open-source