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#Phpgedview webtrees media install#
#Phpgedview webtrees media update#
#Phpgedview webtrees media free#

This is usually moving media/ to data/media/,ĭue to differences in internal data formats, the following settings are not transferred: It works from standard GEDCOM files, and is therefore compatible with every major desktop application and it aims to be efficient and effective by using the right combination of third-party tools, design techniques and open standards.

#Phpgedview webtrees media free#

It is open source software, and costs zero - yes, that means totally FREE All you need to use it is a website with PHP and MySQL installed. All pending changes in phpGedView must be accepted, as pending edits will not be transfered. phpGedView needs to be version 4.2.3 or higher. The webtrees database account must have permission to access the phpGedView database.

The transfer cannot move media files, and you will need to do this manually. webtrees is the web's leading on-line collaborative genealogy application. The phpGedView index/ folder must be on the same server as the webtrees files. After the transfer is complete, you will need to log in with your old phpGedView account.

The transfer process overwrites usernames and passwords.

All existing phpGedView users must have an email address, and it must be unique to that user (phpGedView allows users to delete their email address, or have the same email address as other users).

All pending changes in phpGedView must be accepted, as pending edits will not be transfered.

phpGedView needs to be version 4.2.3 or higher.

The new, forked program is called webtrees. Both programs can share the same database, and they keep their automatically created tables separate by using different table name prefixes to ensure unique table names. In early 2010, a majority of active PhpGedView developers stopped development on PhpGedView and created a fork.

#Phpgedview webtrees media install#

In both cases, you need to create the database before you attempt to install or run the program.

The webtrees database account must have permission to access the phpGedView database. Webtrees and PhpGedView use PHP and a mysql database.

The phpGedView index/ folder must be on the same server as the webtrees files.

The phpGedView database must be on the same server as the webtrees database.

In phpGedView, and it does not require a working installation - you only Webtrees is being actively developed and supported, where PhpGedView is virtually dead, with only sporadic updates and very spotty support. The wizard is stuck at Where is your PhpGedView installation: when I input. The first way is to add them in the genealogy application you used to export your Gedcom, such as PAF. There are three ways to add media items to your Gedcom so that they can be used by PhpGedView. Multimedia embedded in the GEDCOM file itself will be ignored. Having used PhpGedView for a few years, certain habits die hard.Webtrees 1.7.20 contains a tool to migrate dataĪnd settings from phpGedView. Currently phpGedView supports multimedia objects only as external files. I ran into the following issues.ġ) I often test my upgrades in a different directory prior to updating to avoid corruption. To do this with ease, I set the media directory in the beta to point at the media directory of the production PhPGedView directory, and reference it with a. phpgedview/media reference in the config.

#Phpgedview webtrees media update#

Maybe it was sacrificed for ease, but 2 installs no longer seem able to share a media directory.Ģ) to avoid wiping out my existing media when updating via FTP, I created a mask that bypassed both the media and modules dir where I manually update files. The wizard flagged the media dir as not being writable. I manually created it, and was able to proceed.ģ) the gedcom setup has no way (that I found) to select a path to a gedcom out of the data directory (done in PhpGedView so that people will have a harder time viewing/downloading the gedcom). I uploaded it to the data dir and proceeded. At this point it blew up (pages of PHP errrors) due to the lack of the modules directory. At this point the install is corrupt with seemingly now way to upload a new GEDCOM. If you are transferring from PhpGedView, you should install webtrees 1.7 first. in the GEDCOM admin section the GEDCOM name displays, but Webtrees displays gibberish in the GEDCOM Admin section below the name. On every pages you can display media items attached to individuals. I know the risks of using alpha, and I am not complaining especially given my odd install routine :), but I would appreciate help in getting out of this mess without wiping out all files and tables. You will see which features are provided by each module.