[Moin-user] Is it possible to display local images?

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Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 21:04 +0000 schrieb Chris G:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:48:25PM +0100, Mail at Heavy.ch wrote:
> >    Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 17:55 +0000 schrieb Chris G:
> > 
> >  Is it possible for moinmoin to display 'local' images, i.e. images
> >  which are already on the system where moinmoin is running?
> > 
> >  I'm running version 1.9.1 on xubuntu 9.10.  All I want to do is
> >  display images which are already on the system as .JPG files.  I don't
> >  want to upload them into moinmoin as it will be a waste of space and
> >  if I edit the original image (in my main photo album) the moinmoin
> >  copy won't get changed.
> > 
> > 
> >    embending images is easy, just read here:
> >    [1]http://moinmo.in/HelpOnImages
> > 
> Yes, I read that, but it doesn't actually work for *any* images that I
> have tried it with.  It may work if you're actually sending an image
> from a remote system to the system where moinmoin is running but it's
> total rubbish if you're on the same system.
> 
> 
> >    now the bit complicated part... your images on your  filesystem. I would
> >    try to do something like this
> > 
> >    1. install some apache and
> > 
> >    2. configure the webserver in that way that your image directories are
> >    accessible over localhost or your local domain like >>
> >    http://yourhostname/images/s000023.jpg  <<   (but you have be careful
> >    about your apache security configuration, because if your apache server is
> >    also from the Internet  available,  others can also read  directly your
> >    images, too)
> > 
> >    3. then you can write in your moinmoin someting like
> >    {{[2]http://yourhostname/images/s000023.jpg}}
> > 
> OK, but *why* doesn't something like:-
> 
>     file:///my/home/dir/picture/abc123.jpg
> 
> work?  file:/ is a perfectly valid URL.
> 
> I don't want to put my whole picture archive on the internet.
> 
> Not to mention that it would seem that URLs or directories with spaces
> in their names seem to break things too.
> 


maybe the transclusion like  this {{file://///home/directory/file.png}}
could work, you just need to adjust your firefox / browser settings, see
here:
 * http://moinmo.in/FileLinks

bye
Marcel




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