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Re: [help-GIFT] Avoiding "localhost" in URLs generated by gift-add-colle
From: |
Wolfgang Mueller |
Subject: |
Re: [help-GIFT] Avoiding "localhost" in URLs generated by gift-add-collection.pl |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:49:31 +0200 |
> Having added one collection (from a directory below public_html) using
> gift-add-collection.pl, I noticed (only after trying access from another
> machine) that the generated URLs to the images contained "localhost" as the
> host specification, rather than the true hostname of the machine. This is a
> problem if you want to view the images over the internet.
Yes, it is.
>
> I have just run "gift-add-collection.pl --help" to see if there was an
> option which would let me override this, but it appears that there is not.
> "--url-prefix" and "--thumbnail-url-prefix" sound like what is wanted, but
> in fact they are not - they don't affect the localhost issue - which I now
> see is hard-coded into gift-add-collection.pl (though perhaps there was an
> option I could have given to configure when I built the system?).
Huh, I thought it would. Strange. Could you give me the exact command line???
I have to look into the sequences there. Normally the url-prefix stuff is
exactly made for that.
> Anyway, I would like to suggest that a "--hostname" option be added to
> gift-add-collection.pl so that this problem could be avoided.
Good idea.
> David (who is enjoying having some time to get his hands dirty with this
> stuff)
Thanks a lot for your input.
Wolfgang
--
Wolfgang Müller,
assistant-doctorant == PhD student (2001), teaching assistant
Personal page: http://cui.unige.ch/~vision/members/WolfgangMueller.html
Maintainer, GNU Image Finding Tool (http://www.gnu.org/software/gift)
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- Re: [help-GIFT] CFeedbackClient.pm: getting configuration information, Wolfgang Mueller, 2001/07/18
- [help-GIFT] Avoiding "localhost" in URLs generated by gift-add-collection.pl, David Squire, 2001/07/18
- Re: [help-GIFT] Avoiding "localhost" in URLs generated by gift-add-collection.pl,
Wolfgang Mueller <=
- Re: [help-GIFT] Avoiding "localhost" in URLs generated bygift-add-collection.pl, David Squire, 2001/07/18
- Re: [help-GIFT] Avoiding "localhost" in URLs generated bygift-add-collection.pl, David Squire, 2001/07/18
- Re: [help-GIFT] Avoiding "localhost" in URLs generated bygift-add-collection.pl, Wolfgang Mueller, 2001/07/18
- Re: [help-GIFT] Avoiding "localhost" in URLs generatedbygift-add-collection.pl, David Squire, 2001/07/18
- Re: [help-GIFT] Avoiding "localhost" in URLs generatedbygift-add-collection.pl, Wolfgang Mueller, 2001/07/18