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note to mods: I hate to post this here, since it’s really more of a tech support question, I suppose… but I don’t have access to my client’s account… sorry.

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I’m setting up a gallery in an EE install that is running from XAMPP on a Windows server.

The XAMPP install is at c:\program_files\xampp
The webroot is c:\program_files\xampp\htdocs\website
So my image directory would be c:\program_files\xampp\htdocs\website\files\tours
And the batch directory would be c:\program_files\xampp\htdocs\website\batch-upload

I’m uncertain as to how to specify these paths in setting up a new gallery…

If anybody has experience with EE on XAMPP, any advice would be very helpful…

thanks!

the paths required are:

Image Paths
* Image Folder Name
* Server Path to Image Directory
* Full URL to Image Directory

Processing Preferences
* Batch Processing Folder
* Server Path to Batch Folder
* Full URL to Batch Directory

When I try to specify a disk path (Windows-style) in the Server Path fields, EE converts my backslashses forward slashes…

help?

After playing around with it a bit, it seems forward and backward slashes are interchangeable in the Server Path field.  Weird… but it works.

I’m just getting into this with XAMPP also (usually I use MAMP).

I’ve noticed two methods of paths. Actually, I’ve noticed three, once where there were no slashes in the File Uploads Path, but I just fixed that.

Sometimes (in Gen Config prefs) it’s listed like this:
C:www/xampp/htdocs/website/

I’ve seen this also:
C:\www\xampp\htdocs\website\images\forum_attachments/

Haven’t been able to see if this will cause problems, but you can imagine I’m concerned that I’ll be paying the price later.  😊