Hello!

First of all i would like to thank you for this great script.
I have tested gallery3, piwigo and some other softwares.
Non of them was good as zenphoto in my opinion.

I have a question, do you guys know how to pre-cache all the images from the albums folder?

Becouse right now it looks like i must visit the albumpage for the server to cache them (slow)?

If you have any other ideas on how to make the server faster please let me know, the only thing i have done right now is to change php-ram from 128MB to about 3GB.

Thank you!
And best regards.

Use the cache manager plugin for that purpose, given your theme is setup to use it.
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/cachemanager

General recommended readings:
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/is-it-really-necessary-to-pre-cache-my-images-at-all-
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/how-does-zenphoto-cache-
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/why-are-images-of-the-correct-size-still-cached-additionally
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/why-are-some-of-my-thumbnails-sized-images-not-generated-why-does-zenphoto-make-my-server-crash-while-processing-images-

I was having issues with my server pre-caching a large gallery (15,000 images) and lots of sizes. I ended up doing all the caching with a local installation using Xampp and uploading the entire cache folder as zip file.

Some galleries can require 3 or 4 sizes per image which uses a lot of server resources. When you do that remotely it can take a many, many hours.`Running the process locally, you will not get timed out on your server. Need only to run the process one time. Once you get the bulk of it done locally you can update the cache remotely without any problem.

That is a way how to do it. 15,000 and then maybe even large images dimensionwise exceed the power of any normal server. It also depends what kind of server you have, shared, dedicated or your real own. I would suggest not to upload that much images all at once but one after another.

Again, just so it is clear this is not a limitation of Zenphoto but of the server. That is one reason why Zenphoto does create the cache file when needed and not prelimary.

Hi,

New user of zenphoto, i don't know how to use cachemanager ?

Do i need to install something ? I can't find this extension.

Thanks.

It is included and needs to be enabled on the plugins tab naturally.

Hi,

Ok. I was using an old version (1.2.x) of Zenphoto (provided by my host).

I've upgraded to last version and now i can find the cachemanager .

Thanks.