... After all, this is a matter of categorization: if you plan to have a folder for each country in the world and you can't have them all within one folder, then categorize, for example by continent: you'll then have five sub-folders for the continents and the country folders as sub-folder of your continents.
Thanks GauGau. In fact, what you suggested is what I do right now, when I try to categorize the "albums" properly:
->continents: e.g., Europe
->->subregions: e.g., Western Europe
->->-> countries: e.g., Switzerland
->->->-> cantons (provinces or states): e.g., Bern
->->-> ->-> topics: e.g., art museums
etc.
->->-> ->->-> (then finally albums)
The above is when I use
one single CPG for the whole photogallery of countries of the world. The above approach is nice in theory. In practice, it is very cumbersome and very slow. I will not go deeper why I found that to be the case. Thus, what I am doing now is like this:
Layout A:->public: (where public stuff, such as complete "programs" in their own directory, can be placed in the shared webhosting service I use)
>->photogalleries: CPG1, CPG2, CPG3, ... etc., CPGn (where CPGi is a complete Coppermine PhotoGallery program)
Layout A is the default format that is implied in the CPG Manual: mysite.com/public/CPG/(files and subdirectories of CPG), and the aforementioned layout works. However,
Layout A has its own drawbacks. What I was trying to find out here with my original post in this thread was whether someone ever did multiple CPG photogalleries and tried this alternative layout:
Layout B:->public:
->->PG: (where PG is a holding subdirectory for the photogalleries)
->->->photogalleries: CPG1, CPG2, CPG3, ... etc., CPGn
Anyway, what I stated in the "updates" in the original post is that after I posted it, I found out that
Layout B: did not work and I have to retry it again some other time in the future, to find out why it did not work. I will post a separate "topic", to ask for technical help, in the appropriate section, once I know more why
Layout B did not work.
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