Installing the Web Forwarder

Installation instructions

For these installation instructions, you need a basic understanding of how to operate a website. If you have nothing to do with your website and prefer to let your webmaster do such things, we recommend that you send him/her the ZIP file and a reference to these instructions. The installation should be done quickly for him/her.

Go to the Web Forwarder page in your account settings and choose whether you want to install the web forwarder as a subfolder on your website (method 1) or whether you would prefer to use a subdomain or the main folder of your website (method 2).

Way 1: Installation as a subfolder

Enter the desired subfolder and click on "Download Web Forwarder".

Unzip the downloaded ZIP file - you will receive a folder with the name you entered under 1.

Call up your root directory there, i.e. the directory in which the index.hml or index.php file of your website is also located. (You should never overwrite these files!)

Load the complete folder from step 2 into exactly this directory. Attention: the folder also contains an invisible .htaccess file, which is not displayed on many systems but is hidden instead. Important: Be sure to upload the complete folder, not just the file in the folder!

Call up your gallery overview at https://www.yoursite.com/picdrop/ or replace "picdrop" here with the name of the folder you specified in step 1.

That's it! Your galleries can now be accessed via your web forwarding! You can find the link for each gallery in the Share menu.

Way 2: Installation as subdomain or in the main folder

Select "Installation as subdomain or in main directory" and click on "Download Web Forwarder".

Unzip your downloaded ZIP file.

Call up the directory you want to use for your Web Forwarder.

Load the contents of your picdrop folder into this directory. Attention: there is also an invisible .htaccess file in the folder, which is not displayed on many systems.

Call up the desired URL or subdomain that points to the directory with the Web Forwarder you have just uploaded.

Done! Your galleries can now be accessed via your web redirect! You can find the link for each gallery in the Share menu.

Is that it?

Yup.

Important notes

Please continue to upload your images, videos and other files to your picdrop account after installation and not to your own server. The Web Forwarder you have just installed there is "only" a redirect to picdrop, which ensures that you can share picdrop links with your own address. picdrop itself continues to run on our secure servers.

How do I get rid of the Web Forwarder?

If you want to use picdrop again via the normal picdrop URL, simply delete the folder with the Web Forwarder from your web space. However, this is not absolutely necessary as it is sufficient to call up your picdrop via your picdrop URL to have the normal address displayed again in the "Share" menu and in the gallery settings. If you still see a Web Forwarder URL there, you can reset the saved address in your picdrop account settings in the Web Forwarder section with one click. The corresponding browser cookie that defines the address will be deleted and the picdrop URL will be displayed everywhere again.