Re: Apache running The Gimp

"SebDel" <sdelhay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (S) wrote:

S> Thank you Adam for your quick response.
S> I have spent some time reading about those technologies and it seems
S> that they enable a web server to utilize programs (such as CGI scripts)
S> running on remote machines. But I don't see how this can help me Adam.
S> Could you please give me a little more details? Thanks in advance.

S> Anyway, I think the problem would be solved if I could tell Gimp not to
S> try writing into /var/www/.gimp-2.2/ but in another directory that
S> exists and on which the server has write access.

GIMP puts its stuff in $HOME/.gimp-2.2. So instead of running gimp
directly, run a shell script that sets $HOME to a different directory and
then calls gimp.

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