Image Gallery Thumbnails Physical Path

Artem Kotov

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Hi!

Configuration of ImageGallery contains following settings:

      <imageGallery
            imageAbsoluteFilePath="C:\EPiServer\VPP\EPiServerCommunity\Modules\ImageGallery\Originals"
            thumbnailVirtualFilePath="/Thumbnails"

Is it possible to manage physical path of thumbnails? Now epi create folder "Thumbnails" in web site root.

#53911

Sep 26, 2011 14:08

Jens Qvist

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I am not very good with Virtual paths, but can't you just point the virtual Path to a physical location like it's done for "/Global" in episerver.config?

I've not tried this but maybe it's possible?

Anyway, My config look like this if it is any help;

#53991

Sep 28, 2011 14:10

Artem Kotov

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Thanks for answer, Jens

I use the same configuration.

I tried to add virtual path provider to EPiServer.config, but thumbnails still stores to web site root.

Not sure, but it looks like in EPi source used Server.MapPath which ignores path providing.

#54010

Sep 29, 2011 9:35

Mark A

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Hi Artem,

I wonder if the following article might help:

http://world.episerver.com/Documentation/Items/Tech-Notes/EPiServer-Community/EPiServer-Community-32/The-Cache-Replication-System/

A key point in the article is setting up a 'Thumbnails' virtual directory and pointing to the correct share.

I hope this helps,

Mark

#54367

Oct 12, 2011 11:06

Artem Kotov

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Thanks a lot, Mark

Seems this solution should solve my problem

#54368

Oct 12, 2011 11:12

valdis

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This seems like a pretty old post, but anyway we faced the same issue that ImageGallery thumbnail image virtual path is ignored by the ImageGalleryHandler class. Therefore found and excellent article on this topic and how to make thumbs to save to VPP folder instead under www root in folder named as in "virtual folder" attribute.

http://blog.tompipe.co.uk/post/EPiServer-Community-and-image-thumbnailing-woes.aspx

#57004

Feb 21, 2012 14:04