matte/seamcarve isn't supported.

[luxlux]

Thanks for apophnia.

i had no idea how to install from source & git.
Even without install instructions i guess i got it installed correctly on my debian vserver after googleing a lot using:

apt-get install imagemagick
apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
apt-get git-core
git clone git://github.com/kristopolous/apophnia
cd apophnia
make
make install
cd sample
./create-sample.sh
apophnia

If i call http://mydomain.com:1210/example.png it works. Also with resize parameters.
But if i call http://mydomain.com:1210/index.html only a broken image icon will be shown!?
Should it be this way?

I have also two questions:

1. Is it possible instead the special port number to use a subdomain of my domain on port 80? like images.mydomain.com
2. How can i get your tool starting with the server and running all the time? I guess there is something to put into /etc/init.d/. But there is no apophnia.sh for this!?

Lutz

[kristopolous]

For subdomains, it's probably best to support unix sockets although as it stands right now you can do this. Look into nginx proxy_pass, here's an example:

server {
server_name images.example.com;

location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1210;
}
}

and as for (2), I put that ball in your court. A small upstart daemon will suffice. If you need me to build it I could.

[luxlux]

Thanks for your quick answer, kristopolous!

(1) My vserver runs Debian with Confixx, so i did it using the still installed Apache by this way:

Adding proxy support to Apache2

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ln -s ../mods-available/proxy.load
ln -s ../mods-available/proxy.conf
ln -s ../mods-available/proxy_http.load

Adding my proxy to apophnia to the Apache configuration:

<VirtualHost MY-SERVER-IP:80>
    ServerName images.mydomain.com
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:1210/
</VirtualHost>

And restarting Apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This works for me.

(2) I guess i need to copy one of the other shell script files in /etc/init.d/ and change it for starting and holding apophnia up and running even if it may breaks. But I don't really know what i have to care about doing this.
So, it would be very good if you could build such a deamon!

(3a - new) May be i installed something wrong, but there is a problem with the proportion setting in apophnia.conf. If i change it to "proportion": "crop", or "proportion": "squash", apophnia hangs while starting at "Reading apophnia.conf". If i use "proportion": "matte",or "proportion": "seamcarve",it starts.
But this setting changes nothing in the result, even if i request a new not cached size.

(3b - new) Possibly connected to 3a. If i have an original with 300x1000px and i call it with picturename_r100.jpg it delivers a jolted pic with 100x100px. But i need a pic in the original proportion which should be 100x333px. Is this possible?

[kristopolous]

silly github, I just saw this now ... I'll try to get back to it in the next day or so.

[kristopolous]

how sloppy of me. anyway, 3a isn't supported. I should probably update that. Geez ... I'm like the only formal option in this space ... I need to get on top of this thing. ... let me rephrase this.