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Hello,

I am new here. Is it quicker to use forum for installation help or make a support ticket?

I have just set up a new imagevue folder and went through the quick setup procedure and authorised my account.

I then wanted to change 'imagevue' folder name to 'photos' folder name, but the new location wasn't recognised. Do I have to start again from scratch?

Furthermore, I would like my imagevue core files and my upload directory to be different. I have lot's of photo albums on my website already, and linked to on certain pages. I want to use the existing folders to create new albums in imagevue.

So, it is possible to have imagevue core files in imagevue folder, for example. and have contents in a different location?

for example, root/website.com/html/imagevue/ and root/website.com/html/photos.

Thanks for your support.

Andy

yesmaybe wrote:I am new here. Is it quicker to use forum for installation help or make a support ticket?

Its better to use the forum.

yesmaybe wrote:I then wanted to change 'imagevue' folder name to 'photos' folder name, but the new location wasn't recognised. Do I have to start again from scratch?

This is unusual. What do you mean "it wasn't recognized"? The name change might take a few minutes to broadcast across your server, but other than this is is a very simple change that is not even related to Imagevue. You name a folder, and you rename it, its quite straight-forward. Could you send a link?

yesmaybe wrote:So, it is possible to have imagevue core files in imagevue folder, for example. and have contents in a different location?

for example, root/website.com/html/imagevue/ and root/website.com/html/photos.

I am not sure why you want it like this ... Can you not have the entire structure within root/website.com/html/photos then? Normally it works like this:

PATH/{content}/ <- The content folder can be renamed, but within your Imagevue gallery folder.
PATH/{iv-includes}/ <- This is where the Imagevue scripts are, and it cannot be renamed. Visitors dont see it, so it is entirely transparent.

You cannot normally move the content outside of the same parent folder as the Imagevue scripts are within. Why? Because this creates security issues and problems on most servers, since the script is trying to access data in folders that are not within it self. Therefore this wont generally work, and we have stuck to the industry standard. Also, it provides no benefits for visitors in any way, except in your case I assume it is because you just want a different logic to how sort your folders on your server. Visitors will not see any of the paths related to the script files anyway (iv-includes), so I dont see why it hurts to have that folder inside the same folder as your photos/gallery path ...

"This is unusual. What do you mean "it wasn't recognized"?"

in ftp I changed the directory name from imagevue to photo and then when I tried to open the new link, the server gave a forbidden notice. Today, I have changed the name to photos and it works. I guess it was some restriction on my htaccess.

"I am not sure why you want it like this"
Thanks for the advice. I really didn't think of putting the new core files directly under an existing folder, just in case there were any duplicate files or usage issues. I have tried it now and it all works a ok.

Thanks for the support.

mjau-mjau wrote:This is unusual. What do you mean "it wasn't recognized"?"

in ftp I changed the directory name from imagevue to photo and then when I tried to open the new link, the server gave a forbidden notice. Today, I have changed the name to photos and it works. I guess it was some restriction on my htaccess.

mjau-mjau wrote:"I am not sure why you want it like this"

Thanks for the advice. I really didn't think of putting the new core files directly under an existing folder, just in case there were any duplicate files or usage issues. I have tried it now and it all works a ok.

Thanks for the support.