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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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Pages and Autoindex export as PHP, no choice there. Gallery exports as php if you use any of several features (phplugins, password protection, hi-res downloads...)
If you want to test locally, install a virtual server.
Try WAMP for Windows or MAMP if you're on Mac.
No need to know php to use these tools.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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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?
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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.
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You need to use the localhost to open your exported pages.
With WAMP running, click on Localhost in the WAMP menu. Your default browser will open to a page that shows what you've exported to the C:/wamp/www/ folder. Click on those.
Another option is, while WAMP is running, open your browser and go to the URL : http://localhost
When you export any CE3 page for previewing in WAMP be sure that the name of the export is matched in the Site Root field in Page Setup.
So if you name the export "test1" then the Site Root field should be /test1/
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.
Since you did the hack, just click on that same template again. Your settings should be loaded in. If not, then the hack wasn't done right.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Reading just a bit about PHP, I think it's beyond my skill level.
You don't need to know or use PHP. That's the point. The pages are PHP, and they'll just do their thing when you put them online, or one a virtual server as Rod discusses above.
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