cphoto is an HTML photo album generator. It more or less takes a directory of images and creates thumbnails and cropped images (as you specify) and wraps it all up into a pretty HTML package. cphoto generates static sites so nothing has to be running on the server.
These instructions are mostly Windows biased. cPhoto works fine on Unixy systems (I run it there) but I figured if you're running Unix you could figure out.
Unzip the ZIP file into a directory. We'll call this directory cPhotoHome.
Make sure you have JDK or JRE 1.4 in your path. To test that you have JDK 1.4 you can open a command prompt and type:
c:\>java -version
You should see something like this:
java version "1.4.1-rc" Java(TM) 2 Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-rc-b19)
If everything goes as expected, the UI should open.
To run cphoto as a command line app you need to have cphoto.jar in your classpath and cPhotoHome/libs in your java.library.path. The main class is cbg.photo.CPhoto
If you're in the cPhotoHome directory the following will work:
java -classpath libs/cphoto.jar -Djava.library.path=libs cbg.photo.CPhoto
When running cphoto from the command line you must specify a photo src directory by using the -src switch.
Some examples:
-src ./photos or -src photos -src d:/fun/Photos -src ~/photos -src /home/me/pics
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