Fw: Apache::GD::Thumbnail Question

Forgive my use of the list if this is a tad OT - but I seem to not be able
to contact Steven directly all of the sudden (my ISP got but on a RBL, I
think, and it will take them another bit to get off - that's why it took so
long, Steven)

 Issac

> > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 00:12, Issac Goldstand wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > ...<snip>...
> > > >From the man page:
> > > "* ThumbnailBaseDir
> > > Sets the directory that contains the images to be thumbnailed.
Defaults
> to
> > > ".." if not specified"
> > >
> > > Since the virtual directory /home/me/pics/thumbs/../ is where the
> pictures
> > > are (eg, /home/me/pics), I can use the default.
> > >
> > ...<snip>...
> > > Why don't you show me your exact configuration, and I'll see if I can
> help
> > > you out...
> > >
> > >   Issac
> > >
> >
> > ...<another snip>...
> >
> > Hey Issac,
> >
> > Ok, I've dumbed this down to the lowest common denominator ( in this
> > case, I qualify as this ). In my httpd.conf I have the following lines:
> >
> > Alias /pics/ "/data/httpd/htdocs/image1/pics/"
> > <Directory "/data/httpd/htdocs/image1/pics">
> > Order allow,deny
> > AllowOverride None
> > Order allow,deny
> > Allow from all
> > </Directory>
>
> > <Location /*/pics/thumbs>
> > SetHandler perl-handler
> > PerlHandler Apache::GD::Thumbnail
> > PerlSetVar ThumbnailMaxSize 75
> > </Location>

 Why are you using /image1/pics/ for the thumbnails and /pics/ for the
 pictures?
 I would use: <Location /pics/thumbs> for the location block and then <IMG
 SRC="/pics/tumbs/roses.jpg"/> in the HTML.  See if that helps matters...

> > In my script source I have the following line:
> >
> > $r->print ('<P><A href="/pics/roses1.jpg"><IMG
> > src="/image1/pics/thumbs/roses.jpg"></A>
> >
> > I have tried this with the PerlSetVar ThumbnailBaseDir set to the
> > Location,

 No  - ThumbnailBaseDir, would you want to set it, should be set to
 "/data/httpd/htdocs/image1/pics/"

> > with PerlModule Apache::GD::Thumbnail

 you still need this (or "use Apache::GD::Thumbnail;" in mod_perl_start.pl)

> >, with the OBJECT tag
> > instead of the IMG tag

 no - you want IMG

> >and they all yield the same 404 Not Found error.
> >
> > At this point I think that I'm probably missing something really stupid,
> > considering I am following the man page to the letter. The only thing
> > missing from the man page is any example of HTML/script usage but that
> > looks to me as really basic - access the URL and the handler takes over.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Steve
> > --
> > Steven A. Adams <stevea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
>