ImgSvr is a personal or corporate Embedded Picture Web Server that let's you efficiently browse digital pictures. Contrary to other gallery systems, imgsvr aimed to be an easy and fully dynamic picture server, no static created thumbnails are created.

In a near future, ImgSvr will be a tool for managing, organizing pictures throught the web.

Imgsvr can be directly used on a CDROM, and distributed with all your pictures

Why an other picture web server ?

I didn't want to duplicate the huge amont of picture i had on my computer.

I didn't want to send my private pictures on a remote server

I want to keep track of people that are watching the picture and use the pictures

It is much simpler to use an embedded picture web server than a static gallery, the use is really simple.You have a folder with pictures, then install imgsvr, tell him where your pictures are , then it's done !

No static thumbnail to create, all are created on the fly, with efficient algorithms

Distributed system capability thank's Web service API, Hotplug module

11/08/2007 0.6.21 Version, security improvements, parametrize the thumbnail file path, add an URL security, template traversial security issue fixed
17/05/2007 0.6.17 Version, several improvements, parametrize the thumbnail size and prefetch threads
05/2007 0.6.16 Version, several bug fix, plus an linux version back, for imgsvr.
04/2007 0.6.14 Version, improvements in production use of Imgsvr, high stress load of the server have good results, up to 60000 tph on a networked file system See the results
1/2007 0.6.12 Version, lots of improvements, please see the Release Note.
29/12/2006 0.6.9 version, install improvments, adding the smtp parameters, bicubic transformation in beta, background thumbnails creation, image selection managment, full resolution added for a selection permit saving all the selected pictures, full resolution image access ... Enjoy, and merry christmas.
11/11/2006 0.6.7 prerelease version, a lot of changes have been made.. now a clic and use install on win32
25/3/2006 0.6.5 beta version, see the changes in the release note, new on the fly thumbnails generation
19/3/2006 Refactoring in progress ... the new Imgsvr compiles. The current refactoring is aimed to put an image independant dev layer for image manipulation. The image catalog concept has been reinforce to manage shared resources.
27/2/2006 SVN repository is alive for imgsvr, imgsvr is currently refactoring, image collection are simplified, session handling in currently in progress. the new adavision library will permit modifying pictures in live from imgsvr server
26/2/2006 a graphic designer is currently creating a new logo for imgsvr

ImgSvr has been design for those purposes :

• Easy to install and use
• Easy to customize Picture Views thanks to inheritable skins
• Fast to browse pictures
• Save bandwith for browsing and managing your pictures
• Picture Storage independent, picture could be stored in a directory-file, or in a database

ImgSvr can be used for creating static web site to browse pictures, using web grabber such wget, teleport ..

plans for the Imgsvr v0.7 release

• Web Service Interface
• Php Gallery interface

Imgsvr v0.6.12 release for win32 plateforms

• a very mature version, for long term use of imgsvr.This version could be named 1.0 but i haven't finish the objectives fixed for the 1.0 version.
• this branch still does not yet implements the MySql Catalog, this will come in a next release, sorry for the inconvenience.

• fix a memory leak bug in thumbnails exploration
• fix a shared disk access using UNC paths
• fix a greyscale binary bug
• add a message text box for sending emails
• log output filtering
• fix a program termination bug
• background low priority thumbnail creation
• save the exploration of the directory already thumbnailed
• background thumbnail task
• permit loading selections in full resolution
• image in selection management

Imgsvr v0.6.7 prerelease for win32 plateforms release

• New default template, more convenient
• new skin folder in install, permitting localization
• new authentification for securing the pictures, this is not enabled be default
• a simple install tutorial
• this branch does not yet implements the MySql Catalog, this will come in the next release

Imgsvr v0.6.5 beta release

• on the fly image resizing (URL size specification thank's to the size parameter)
• internal engine refactoring, reorganization of the code

Road Map for version 1.0

the software road map is currently driven by my own needs, all suggestions are welcome.

• 1 - Better visualisation options (why not include a scripting capability as lua ??)
• 2 - Adding Server side functionnality as emailing, ordering, annotating
• 3 - More picture format support (i think PNG must be great)

License

ImgSvr is currently under GPL license, for more information, please visit Free Software Foundation web site or write to

Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

to contact me ,
frett27 AT free.fr