Dan
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Morning Guys.
The missus has just given birth to a gorgeous little boy, as some of you may know.
We have alot of family around the world and things, so to get pictures easily to them, and as i have hosting already for my website etc.
Im thinking of putting a simple gallery online, where they can browse our pictures and download them. So we dont have to keep sending them via msn/email as it takes a lifetime.
Whats the best one to use? I have the choice of these via softcalous installer:
Gallery
LinPHA
Coppermine
TinyWebGallery
Piwigo
Pixelpost
ZenPhoto
phpAlbum
Shutter
Obviously, i want it to be as safe and secure as possible. Whats my best option?
Dan 
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Neo
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I know using Gallery you can give them a user login. Its easy and quick to install too
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Dan
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Thats the one i was looking at mainly at the min. Ill do some more reading
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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Even better idea i think would be a login page, with no registration option.
Then it can just be a list of files. I can then upload .zip files to it, in date order.
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adiohead
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could you not host them on your website somewhere and give them the link?
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ed
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Flickr or Picassa.
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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Right,
Ive made a directory, made that password protected (so you get the windows type login box) Set a user and password.
Now when u visit the address, you are asked to sign in, then it shows you the directorys etc.
So if i now upload .zip files to the folders, they are only accessable by those who login in.
Is this a pretty safe method?
Dan
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ed
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HTTP Basic Auth is nice and safe for what you're doing, no need for anything else. Presumably you've enabled directory listing too so you can see a list of all the files in there already?
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Dan
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Yea done that. Works just how i need it. Just worried its not that safe. But seems it
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moka
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Why not just setup a seperate facebook account? Upload all your pictures to that and add your family/friends or whatever?
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Dan
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Thats an option moka, but seeings i have a hosting account which is a million miles from maxing out data/bandwidth etc. I may as well use that.
That way i dont get pestered by people wanting to be my friend, and i know no1 else will be seeing them
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Ian
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I was going to suggest a htaccess folder, easy and will do the job
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Simon
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quote:
Originally posted by adiohead
could you not host them on your website somewhere and give them the link?
like a baby gallery link from protectyourpiece.com? 
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan
Yea done that. Works just how i need it. Just worried its not that safe. But seems it
Yup, it's very safe. Better than form based authentication if we're not getting too technical 
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
I was going to suggest a htaccess folder, easy and will do the job
I assume this is what i have done. I set it up via cpanel, i now have a htaccess folder in the root dir.
No, not a link from protectyourpiece.co.uk lol, bought a website name specifically for it, which family memeber will be able to remember easily.
Seems like a good way to get loads of pics to the rest of the family, to add to things like photo frames etc etc.
Probably an easier way to do it, but it seemed a good idea
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noshua
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Dropbox would have been another option if you hadn't already got a server.
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