yappa-ng Regular Documentation
yes - of course! :-)
Take a look at the _README.FIRST.html in your installation /docs directory.
At the moment all documentation is English language only - SORRY!
yes - of course! :-)
Take a look at the SUPPORT_REQUESTS.html in your installation /docs directory.
At the moment all documentation is English language only - SORRY!
Yes - of course! ;-)
If you send me an email PLEASE write yappa-ng into the subject so I open the mail and do not discard it as spam!!!
Please refer to: Where are my hits stored?!
Please refer to: Where are my hits stored?!
Please take a look into the MANUAL - there is a step by step guidance how to make your own WELCOME and NEWS pages!
To change the appearance of yappa-ng and/or create a new theme you will have to know HTML.
If you want to make a complete new theme and not just change the colors and background-images of an existing theme
you will have to have basic PHP knowledge!
Look at the file "yappa-ng/themes/themes_support.inc.php"!
In this file there are more or less all the main definitions.
If I type "http:/wwww.zirkon.at/yappa-ng_demo" than yappa-ng starts and I do not have to type the index.php!
Answer:
Your web server is not configured to treat the "index.php" as starting-file like the "index.html".
You can reconfigure your webserver (if its your own) or just rename the "index.html.redirect" that comes with the yappa-ng distribution
for exactly this case and rename it to "index.html".
Then edit the new "index.html"-file and put your own url into it.
Now you can type http://yourdomain/yappa-ng without anything again, and yappa-ng starts up!
If you are using the GD-library and run PHP < 4.3.0 than you will get only errors if you try to rotate an image.
Answer:
I'm sorry, but this feature is built into PHP in versions greater than PHP 4.3.0 !
(Info: PHP-ONLINE-Manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagerotate.php)
If you really need the rotation-feature than please upgrade your PHP-version or use ImageMagick.
Your yappa-ng system-admin has a parameter in the global yappa-ng system configuration to disable this admin-selection.
Now if you do not see the admin-menu item "Create New Album" then your system-admin has decided that he does not want to enable fileuploads.
Please do not bug him to enable for you and you only this feature - he cannot! It is an "everything or nothing" switch!
He himself has to make new albums manually if he switches of this menu-item! ;-)
Maybe you are a "PowerUser"? Your Album-Admin can configure a "PowerUser" with only some of the Album-Admin Menus!
If you log into the Album-Admin-Menu with the "PowerUser"-password you will see the Menues your
Album-Admin wanted you to see. Your Album Admin has only 3 restrictions:
yappa-ng is not the source that restricts uploads and sets upload-limits.
Run the check_setup.php (point your browser to the check_setup.php) and take a look
into the created file: check_setup.txt
I check the PHP-settings in your php.ini (or php.conf)- and there you will find your answer.
The needed settings for the file upload are:
All album configurations are stored in the album itself (file "config_album.inc.php").
If you created a new Album with the "Create New Album" Option in the
Admin-Module you have to log out of the album you where in when you created the album.
Now click on the link to the new album. You will get the message "No Images in this Album".
NOW log in as Admin again (with the admin-password you gave this album)
and start uploading images, configure the layout,...
OR
Click onto the link to change to the new album directly, provide the password you set and
you can start uploading! :-)
The only reason for this file is to prevent others to browse your directory.
If this file is missing and someone gives the album name without filename as url in
his web browser most web servers will present the directory / filelisting of this directory.
If there is an index.html, the web server will present this file instead!
If your web server supports .htaccess directory-protection (Apache) you should
protect your complete yappa-ng "photo_root" (Main Photo Directory)!
You need no direct web-access to this directory - everything is done
with PHP-scripts from your yappa-ng main directory!
It is important for you if you have userprotected albums.
If the directory name AND the image name is known someone can access these images without
the yappa-ng password-query if no .htaccess-protection is in place!
This file locks the album so that it cannot get deleted.
You can delete images; you can create subalbums and delete them
again - but you cannot delete THIS album (=subdirectory)
from the Album-Admin Menu Task: "Delete Album".
This is a tool for SysAdmins if they give admin-passwords for certain albums to
others but want to be sure that THIS subdirectory remains!
It does not matter if this file has 0 Bytes - only the existence of this file is queried!
The Album-Description will not get deleted too - but the person(s) with the
admin-login can edit it - or overwrite with nothing!
The file "check_setup.php" is one more possibility for you to give you the information needed
to setup yappa-ng in difficult environments. It was very important in times before the
"setup.php", but is still useful for getting support. All information I need to help you install
yappa-ng should be in the created file "check_setup.txt".
Point your Browser to the file and activate it.
After this you will find a file "check_setup.txt" in your yappa-ng directory with all of your settings and paths.
In this file there are all your yappa-ng setups AND PATHS (!) AND some of your
PHP-setup AND WebServer-setup parameters!
Everyone can activate this script if you do not delete / rename it and create the file "check_setup.txt".
Than he can point his browser to this file and look at your installation parameters.
Maybe this could be used as source of knowledge about your server you do NOT want to share with the entire Internet!!!
So: after installation delete/rename your "check_config.php" and delete any "check_config.txt".
btw: you can execute the script even if it has a completely different filename!
BUT: the output-filename will always be the same! DELETE it!
After first installation of yappa-ng the passwords to log into the albums is the same as you
selected within the Setup Tool.
You can use this password for the Setup Tool, the albums and the ToolBox (toolbox.php)!
From this point on the Album passwords and the yappa-ng Administration password will be independant!!!
Log into your home-photo album (this is where the "Welcome to yappa-ng..." text shows after installation) as Album-Admin as soon as possible after installation and change the default password to your own (Even if there are no images in it and even if you never will have images directly in this central folder).
There is no real security issue if you do forget / ommit it, but it could happen
that someone changes the password to one you do not know, upload/delete images,...
And I do not believe you will think this is funny! ;-)
Hint:
Before you start creating many albums after installation configure your
home album as you want to have it.
Everything but the admin-password will be inherited to the next "child album"!
Of course! The "Upload Images" Module is only a help for all who have no FTP
or direct server access.
Just make sure the webser can read all images!!!
All links, thumbnails, resized images,... will be created automatically when the first
visitor views the album. It's really easy! :-)
If you want to rotate the images (some of them) the images have to be writeable for the webserver!
RESTRICTION: If your webserver has the "Safe Mode Restrictions" enabled forget all this and use the Admin Menu "Upload Images"!
Of course! The "Create New Album" and "Upload Images" Modules are only a help for all who have no FTP
or direct server access.
You can create a new directory within your Photos directory and copy/move/FTP all your images/photos into it!
You can even make complete directory trees. Make sure the webserver can read AND write all directories and images!!!
Before you can see the albums and images in your yappa-ng gallery you have to IMPORT the directories into yappa-ng with the help of the ToolBox (toolbox.php)!
Log into the ToolBox and select the Option "Global Album Manipulation", than select "Import New Albums".
You will get a list of all your current albums and a list with all albums which are not imported at the moment. More details are within the option in the ToolBox! ;-)
This "importing" of directories does NOT change the location! Importing makes automatically the following steps:
Albums which you created with the "Create New Album" Album Admin Module need NOT to be imported!!
RESTRICTION: If your webserver has the "Safe Mode Restrictions" enabled forget all this and use the "Create New Album" and "Upload Images" Album Admin Modules !
Have Fun!
Part of yappa-ng Documentation by Fritz 'wizard' Berger: >> yappa-ng Homepage <<