Gallery 2…

Click for NEW moblog…

Well, I did it. I went ahead and moved my personal photo gallery to Gallery 2.

It’s quite a bit different, but I’m really liking it… The only issues I’m having are related to uploading photos to my moblog. In the old version of gallery, newly uploaded images were, by default, placed first in the album and set as the album thumbnail. This wouldn’t normally be the expected behavior, but it works out well for a moblog. In G2 images uploaded using the Nokia Image Upload API Module are dropped into the gallery and sorted per the gallery’s rules. Thusly, I had to change the gallery to sort based on ‘origination date’ so that newer photos are first, and I’ll have to go in and manually specify the new highlight photo each time I edit the captions. This really isn’t as big of a deal as it sounds.

I have also left all the photos in place under http://www.nuxx.net/albums for the time being. While not directly browsable, these are still the images that I have linked to in LJ, are indexed via Google Images, and appear all over the rest of the internet. Due to how imaged are sorted on the filesystem level in G2, I can’t make a simple mapping to them any longer. This isn’t a big deal either. I’ll just delete the old image location a bit later.

Speaking of linking directly to images in a manner like I did above, the URL to that image happens to be https://nuxx.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Image_632_.jpg. This could prove to be a problem if that temporary image expires, because the proper link to the original file is actually http://www.nuxx.net/g2data/albums/moblog/Image_632_.jpg. I’m going to have to find a proper way to link to the actual file itself, else I could run into trouble if the resized ones expire. That said, I think that the first URL I mentioned in this paragraph is actually redirected to the proper file by G2 itself, so maybe these links will hang around for a while. I’ll have to look and see.

One last thing, old-style requests to albums such as http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/moblog are automatically rewritten to the new format URLs using mod_rewrite. Go ahead, try it… Click this link and see where it takes you: http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/moblog

Well, now that that’s all done, I think it’s time for me to head home and eat a nice bowl of chili from the pot I made up yesterday. Another late day sitting here, but at least I got stuff done and learned something.

Bye for now. :)