Setting up the Imagevue X2 gallery to work in it’s default state is a breeze! Let’s follow the procedure step-by-step
Download Imagevue
First, you need to download Imagevue X2!
Imagevue Downloads›
Unpack the ZIP file
Locate the [imagevuex2.zip] file you downloaded, and unpack it. You should see a single folder [imagevue]. This folder represents your gallery folder, which you will be uploading to your website.
Upload Imagevue X2 to your website
Upload the entire folder [imagevue] to your website and rename the folder to anything you like, for example gallery or portfolio. This will be your root gallery folder, and represents the link to your gallery.
Setting the Imagevue Gallery as your Startpage
If you want the Imagevue X2 gallery to be the startpage of your website, for example www.yoursite.com, simply open the [imagevue] folder and upload the contents directly to the root of your website, instead of uploading the entire folder.
Check that your Gallery is working!
The links to your gallery should be similar as below for your main flash gallery, html gallery, and the control panel – Don’t worry about admin login for now:
Your Gallery Links
www.yourwebsite.com/{gallery folder name}/
www.yourwebsite.com/{gallery folder name}/?p=html
www.yourwebsite.com/{gallery folder name}/iv-admin/
Examples from our website:
imagevuex.com/mygallery/›
imagevuex.com/mygallery/?p=html›
imagevuex.com/mygallery/iv-admin/›
Set folder permissions
Optional! This action may not be required, depending on your web server
Before you can enjoy gallery management from the control panel, you may need to set permissions for some of the folders so that the Imagevue control panel can freely create and delete files/folders and manage themes/configurations and users. You will need to give full permissions to the following files and folders:
{yourgallery}/iv-config/
Allows the admin to save changes to settings, themes, and languages.
{yourgallery}/content/
Allows the admin to manage files and folders in your content folder.
Most peoples imagevuex x.xxx is not in its default state…so a category called “Upgrading” needs to be visual and obvious.
We have some information on this, here:
http://imagevuex.com/documentation/upgrade-imagevue/
I also got your e-mail, so we will look into this …
Oh, also keep in mind that your gallery is always slow the first time it loads. This is when it builds the cache …