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Sorry, I transposed the digits. 1&1 says I am using PHP 5.4 and that will incur the additional charges. They recommend PHP 5.6. Can I just change my 1&1 setting to PHP 5.6 and then see if my website works? If my TTG design doesn't with PHP 5.6, would I see a total failure or would it be more subtle failures of certain portions? Am I safe in just experimenting with the 1&1 settings?
I received a message from my website host 1&1 that my website (www.bobmetzler.com) is using PHP 4.5 and my monthly charges will be increased about 50% since this is an out-of-date standard. They say I can upgrade to later versions, up to and including PHP 7 at no increase in fee. I have no idea what PHP is. I built my website with TTG modules, version 3 I guess. If I go to the 1&1 control panel and change to PHP 7 or other later version, will this impact the function of my website? I am not a sophisticated or experienced maker or web pages.
That sounds promising, but I've never set up a sub-domain. I'll take a look at my host 1and1 to see if there is documentation on doing that. Right now, the difference between a sub-domain & sub-folder isn't clear to me. I want people to be able to come to my existing www.bobmetzler.com, not have to learn a sub-domain name. I know the concept of re-direction but have no experience with it.
Thanks, Rod. I've deliberately kept the number of files small in my testing, and I think I'll be ahead by just abandoning the experimentation I've done so far & start the for-real work from scratch with the proper absolute URLs, new gallery template, etc. I am using Publisher & am now in the process of setting up Collections, typing in Captions, doing some image edits, & cleaning up filenames. Thanks for the tip about Rob Cole's FileRenamer; I've used that to replace all my apostrophes and Lightroom's own File Rename takes care of commas & spaces. When I get all this ready, it shouldn't take long to put up the proper Pages & gallery template & then only a few hours with Publisher to get that up into the final location.
Maybe Matthew should consider a new feature that would permit people to test in a sub-folder & then automatically migrate everything up one level when they are satisfied. I'd think that I'm not the only person who uses this approach.
I've been using a sub-folder of my 10-year-old website to create new TTG pages & test out my understanding and control of all this new stuff. I've kept this test website very small, assuming that all the specific work will be wasted when I think I'm ready for prime time, since galleries are a level farther down they eventually need to be and the URL of the sub-folder is hard-coded into TTG fields. Is there a way to get the entire website (which will have 20-30 galleries & several hundred photos) up into my base URL?
A little success now. I had been on my Home page in LR when clicking the Export button, with poor results as described in my previous post. If I go to the Galleries page and click Export, my new folder in "www" now has and index.html file & double-clicking that gives me the Galleries page in IE, looking pretty much as it does in LR. None of the Navigation buttons work, though, & somewhere since yesterday I lost all the appearance adjustments that I had hacked into the Galleries template file from the Pages template file. That's probably a separate problem that I will now pursue.
Rod, thanks for the fast response. I downloaded & installed WAMP. I have all WAMP services running and WAMP is online. In Lightroom, I select the Web Collection that I've been working on in CE3 Pages--currently only Home,Galleries, & About with eight images in the filmstrip. Home page looks great in LR, though I can't Preview in Browser: Internet Explorer comes up with my usual IE starting point. I click on Export in LR, tell LR to put the website in the "www" folder of WAMP & LR goes through a couple minutes of generating stuff. I go to the www folder and see inside it a new folder as I just named it. But, if I double-click on index.php or try to open it with IE, all I get is WordPad with the source code. If I look in the "photos" folder I see large jpegs of my filmstrip images. In the "thumbnails" folder are small jpegs of the same images. If I go to the "fragments" folder and double click home.html, I see the text block from my home page but no background, no images. Any idea what I'm doing wrong, or haven't done?
I'm brand new; bought the bundle including CE3 Auto Index, Gallery, Pages. CE3 Pages seemed the best place to start but now I read that CE3 Pages only makes PHP sites & a PHP site can't be tested on my local hard drive. I don't want to start FTP uploads to my website until I have things working to my satisfaction locally. Reading just a bit about PHP, I think it's beyond my skill level. How do you suggest I proceed without use of PHP? Will I lose the work I've done in Pages?
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