Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I get to the Administrator Console?
- What kind of images should I upload?
- How do I convert and edit my images?
- Can images be rearranged or deleted?
- Does each image have its own URL?
- Is my password send over the internet in clear text?
- How do I reset my password?
- What does check permissions mean?
- What if my question is not on this FAQ list?
Click.
From the Gallery page, place your pointer over the very far right end of the gray menu bar. Click the tachometer icon to navigate to the Administrator Console.
High resolution.
For best results, upload .jpg images that are at least 1,200 pixels wide or tall. However, the file size of each image must not exceed 2 MB. Crop off any borders or frames as Paradise automatically adds its own borders.
Varies depending on your computer.
If you are on a Mac, you can use the built-in application called Preview. All Macs come with Preview, and it can crop images, convert them to .jpg format, and adjust compression. Just double-click an image to open it in Preview.
To convert multiple RAW images into .jpg files, open and select the images in Preview and then choose:
File → Export Selected Images... → Options → Format: JPEG
Yes.
In the Administrator Console the Image Portfolio section lists all the photos in your gallery. Click the up and down arrows to change the order of a photo, and click the X button to delete a photo.
Yes.
From the Gallery page, place your pointer over the image caption to reveal the link icon, which takes you to the web page showcasing that specific image.
It is a good idea to have captions and descriptions for each image so that search engines have text to index with the image. For example, see the first search result for:
https://www.google.com/search?q=christopher+pilafian+color+grid
No.
The sign in page for the Administrator Console performs a one-way encryption* of your password before submitting it to the server. The server never sees your actual password. It only sees a generated code like:
23e00b8641642a15657881ba1b1f8b8914a30ede651a57ac4589a4474ffae8fd
Your images are public, but your password remains a secret.
*Salted SHA-256 cryptographic hash
The reset password feature is not ready yet (issue #20). So, if you forget your password, FTP into your server and delete the accounts-db.json file (note: this will remove all user accounts). Paradise will automatically regenerate the file so you can re-enter new sign in credentials.
The file is inside a folder named secure-{CODE} where {CODE} is a long number used to hide the folder for security reasons.
Example path to accounts DB file:
gallery/~data~/secure-347179886533298346471351541/accounts-db.json
Immediately after deleting accounts-db.json, go to the Administrator Console and recreate your account with your desired password.
If the folders and files in your web server document root do not have the correct permissions, you'll encounter the error:
Error initializing file, check permissions
Paradise PHP is distributed in a zip file. After unzipping the zip file, you need to use FTP to upload the files to your web server. Using FTP is important because FTP should automatically set the correct permissions needed by your web server. If you just use manual file copy, your personal user account will have permissions to the files but the web server will not. Your web server runs as a user that is different than your personal user account.
Either use FTP to upload the files to your web server or manually update all the folders and files in your web server document root to have read and write access for the web server user account.
Submit an issue.
Just post your question as a New issue at:
https://github.com/center-key/paradise/issues