Oxyl~box (ppc)
Requirements
You will need to install:
Note: MySQL is not required for Oxyl~box. This is a good way of saving resources on the Linkstation! Because Oxyl~box doesn't require MySQL, don't forget to leave out the MySQL commands whilst installing php. When I have got time I will make a new Apache + PHP Article.
Installation
Create an Oxylbox directory in apache's DocumentRoot (/mnt/opt/apache/htdocs)
mkdir /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox
Download Oxyl~box into previously created directory then do a changemod
cd /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox wget http://www.oxyl.de/load.php?ticket=e92b77137cf76b3f4af510fdc44efe2e&file=oxylbox-V2.50_lin.tar.gz chmod a+r /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox
untar the oxyl tar file in the directory
tar xzvf oxylbox-V2.50_lin.tar.gz
Change user:group
chown -R nobody:nogroup /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox
Edit the file /mnt/opt/apache/conf/httpd.conf in the following way:
vi /mnt/opt/apache/conf/httpd.conf
Search for and add/alter the following to the file (You will, at the very least, need to change your port to 81 (or some other port) as 80 is the port that the Linkstation uses for its Webinterface.):
-Port: The port to which the standalone server listens. For -ports < 1023, you will need httpd to be run as root initially. Listen 81
-Oxyls Documentroot; set accordingly DocumentRoot "/mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox"
-so that photos/pictures and videos can be displayed
Alias /root/ "/"
-Change the group parameter to the following:
Group nogroup
Make a symbolic link for the libformat.so
ln -s /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox/bin/libformat.so /bin/libformat.so
The following was also required
find /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 find /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
Then
chown -R nobody:nogroup /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox
Modify the file functions.inc in the directory /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox/common in the following way:
A. in the getthumbhref function is needed to submit the original image extension to the do_imgconvert function:
search for
if(!do_imgconvert($fn,$back,$new_size[0],$new_size[1],$img_ext2))
and change it to
if(!do_imgconvert($fn,$back,$new_size[0],$new_size[1],$img_ext2,$img_ext))
B.
in the do_imgconvert function initialisation the parameter $org_ext is set to "". Because of this, the if selection would never use the GD lib functions.
Since we now submit this parameter (see 1.) we have to remove this initialisation:
search for
function do_imgconvert($orgpfad,$newpfad,$width,$height,$new_ext,$org_ext=,$quali= 80,$o_width=0,$o_height=0){
and change it to
function do_imgconvert($orgpfad,$newpfad,$width,$height,$new_ext,$org_ext,$quali=80, $o_width=0,$o_height=0){
C.
in the do_imgconvert function a check is done for the image extensions, which can't be converted by nconvert (to use GD Lib only for the unsupported formats by nconvert). Since we are using GD Lib for all extensions, we have to remove this check:
search for
if($org_ext!=&&in_array($org_ext,$GLOBALS['imageextensions_nonc'])&&$GLOBALS['GDLIB_SUPPORT']){
and change it to
if($org_ext!=&&$GLOBALS['GDLIB_SUPPORT']){
D.
at last the image creation in do_imgconvert does not work, because the $o_width and $o_height variables are initialised with 0, but not changed afterwards (the same bug like with $org_ext):
search for
if($create_img){
and change it to
if($create_img){ $img_size= getimagesize($orgpfad); $o_width=$img_size[0]; $o_height=$img_size[1];
E.
as an additional info - here is my complete version of the image creation (from D.)
if($create_img){ $img_size= getimagesize($orgpfad); $o_width=$img_size[0]; $o_height=$img_size[1]; $img = imagecreatetruecolor($width,$height); $ppp =imagecopyresized ($img,$simg,0,0,0,0,$width,$height,$o_width,$o_height); ImageJPEG($img, $newpfad, $quali); ImageDestroy($img ); }
Restart apache
/mnt/opt/apache/bin/apachectl restart
Run it
Using your browser, access oxylbox on your Linkstation via LinkstationIPAddress on port 81
http://<LinkstationIPAddress>:81
and setup the oxylbox via oxyl-setup. Make sure you set the playlist directory, choose the language, set showcenter ip and last but not least update the software to v36. Update and install all plugins and skins that become visible on setup page after the update to 36.
Troubleshooting
In the event of something not working as it should, do this and ask for help
Create a file to see your php settings
vi /mnt/opt/apache/htdocs/oxylbox/config/test_php.php
and put this in it
<? phpinfo(); ?>
It should output your PHP settings when you try to reach it.
Screenshots
To come...
For screenshots go to from here