Title: gallery folder on localhost
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# gallery folder on localhost

 *  Resolved [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-folder-on-localhost/)
 * I’m using version 1.1.16 and I have a problem on my localhost test site when 
   entering the gallery folder. Actually, I don’t enter it but it is saved as displayed,
   so I have to re-enter it.
 * I’m using XAMPP on Windows, so my paths have backslashes. I can enter the gallery
   folder as ../photos/ and it is found. But when I select my settings and save,
   it uses the displayed path of ..\photos and saves that, which means it is no 
   good. It needs to not convert to backslashes and display what I entered previously.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lazyest-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lazyest-gallery/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-folder-on-localhost/page/2/#post-3133124)
 * I just tried it on my localhost, and that works much better! Thank you. I didn’t
   try it on a live server.
 * I see one problem though. The default path makes sense, but you need some sort
   of dirty bit, so you know whether the user has set the path or not. Despite my
   having had the plugin installed and running before, when I activated this new
   version, it had wp-content/uploads/ as the path instead of my photos path.
    I
   activated and went straight to the gallery setup page, not the settings page (
   because that’s what’s visible in the menu and I forgot how to use this plugin),
   so the plugin started churning out xml files for all my subfolders. Since you
   do write to the disk, you should be careful that you have the right settings 
   before you write. If there were a check for whether the user had set the path(
   dirty bit) before generating the xml files, it would be much more friendly.
 *  Plugin Author [Marcel Brinkkemper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macbrink/)
 * (@macbrink)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-folder-on-localhost/page/2/#post-3133125)
 * Okay, thanks for the warning. The plugin should do that. I’ll check.
 *  Plugin Author [Marcel Brinkkemper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macbrink/)
 * (@macbrink)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-folder-on-localhost/page/2/#post-3133126)
 * Have just checked.
    If the path is empty, the Lazyest Gallery menu will not appear
   and the writing of xml files is deactivated. The settings menu will show a warning.
   Also, if you set the path to one of the core WordPress subdirectories, the plugin
   will deactivate all but he Settings page. However, the `wp-content/uploads/` 
   directory is considered ‘save’ to be used as a gallery directory. Maybe because
   of your earlier attempts to get the path fixed, `wp-content/uploads/` remained
   in your settings. I’ll add a rule so `wp-content/uploads/` or other default WordPress
   upload folders cannot be selected for Lazyest Gallery.

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