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

[R.Bauer]

Mail at Heavy.ch schrieb:
> 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
> 

The file:/// is called from the browser and that will find the image
only on one machine in that dir

Reimar