Remote sites

Piwigo offers the possibility to use several servers to store the images which will compose your gallery. It can be useful if your gallery is installed on a limited space and you have a huge quantity of images to show.

  1. edit file tools/create_listing_file.php, by modifying parameters section such as $conf['prefix_thumbnail'] or $conf['use_exif'].
  2. using ftp, place the modified file tools/create_listing_file.php on your distant website, in the same directory as your category directories (as the directory galleries of this website). For example, let's say that you can access http://example.com/galleries/create_listing_file.php.
  3. go to administration panel, Categories, Site manager. Ask to create a new site, for example http://example.com/galleries.
  4. a new remote site is registered. You can perform 4 actions :
    1. generate listing : launches a distant request to generate a distant file listing
    2. synchronize : reads the distant listing.xml file and synchronizes with database information
    3. clean : removes distant listing.xml file
    4. delete : deletes the site (and all related categories and elements) in the database