Georgi’s Blog

Gallery to Coppermine

Because of speed problems with Gallery2 on Dreamhost I had to look for an altermative. I have to admit that I liked Singapore very much but it didn’t scale well. It was slower on the top levels than gallery. That is why I tried Coppermine. I had to go trough every single album and add create it manualy and than add the images. It took some time, but the best part is that with all my pictures added ( more than 6000 ) it works pretty well on Dreamhost. I sat down and created my own template that looks like my blog and I can say I’m happy with it. The biggest problem is that all old links are now dead, but I added a few lines to .htaccess to redirect all old requests to the top level of the new gallery. There are a few more things to be changed ( like font sizes ) but first things first. Now, at least, I don’t have classes so I will be able to tweek it.
Comments and critics are welcome

New Gallery (old url) - Coppermine 1.4
Old Gallery (new url) for speed reference - Gallery 2