One note on what I outlined above:
It is not noted in the rt user manual but I think the template directory we created has to have 777 permissions also..... sorry for missing that.
Ok, time to go on into remote thumbs and set stuff up
Go to
http://www.remotethumbs.com and log in.
On the left hand menu, go to my settings.
On the settings page, click on "Add Setting"
This will bring you to a settings definition screen.
The first question at the top wants you to make a name for this setting. This can be any name you want, if you are going to have multiple servers running different versions of remote thumbs, then you might want to call it by the server name. If you are going to have different sites on the same server using remote thumbs, then you might want to call it by the site name. Choose a name to makes sense to you.
The next question is the templates directory. This is the physical location of the templates directory you created on your server. ie: /home/username/domainname/templates or some such. If you do not know the physical location, remotethumbs will try to find it for you during the test operation we will do after creating our settings.
The next question wants the script url. This is the url to the script directory you created with the addition of a name for the script file. Again, this can be just about any name and should be something you consider useful. Use a '.cgi' extension for the script.
ie:
http://www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/rt...t/rtscript.cgi
The next question wants a password. This is not required, but is highly reccomended. By entering a password here, the script will run password protection helping ensure that the script is only run by remotethumbs.
The next question is the thumbnail url. This is the url for the thumbnail directory you created.
ie:
http://www.domainname.com/rthumbs
The next question is the physical address of the thumbnail directory we created.
ie: /home/username/domainname/rthumbs
The final settings question is the path for perl on your server.
ie: /usr/bin/perl
Once you have filled in all the information, click on save setting.
You should be returned to a screen listing the setting you just created.
Now we need to test the setting.
On the screen we returned to, on the right hand side of the setting we just created are links for "edit", "test", "download script" and "delete"
The edit allows you to edit the settings, the test allows you to test the settings, the download script will create a script based on the settings
and allow you to download it so you can place it on your server and the delete lets you delete settings that you no longer want.
Note****** This section was rewritten midday on Sep 1st because I screwed the order of a couple of thinsg, so you aren't crazy, it did change
We need to test the settings that we just created.
To test, we must first download the script, upload it to our server and then click on the "test" link.
First it the download script button, save the file to your local harddrive, then ftp into your server and upload the script file into the script directory you created on the server.
Remote thumbs will go out and test your settings at this point.
It will first check the script url, then the password. It will try to find the document root for you and if it finds it, it will show it to you (in case you didn't know what it was). It will then test the template location both read and write and the thumbnail location, both read and write. It will report back on weach test and tell you if it was ok or not and in some cases make recomendations on what to change (such as permissions).
If you passed all tests, great, you are ready to go. If you did not pass all tests, then you need to go make the necessary changes to the settings (through the edit function) and keep on editing and downloading the script, uploading it to your server and testing until you pass all tests.
Now that we have settings defined, we can go create some templates