Setting File Gallery Options

The Tiki file gallery is where you'll store the images, documents, attachments, and anything else you (or your site visitors) may need to upload.

1. Select the Storage location for the file gallery items: Database or Directory.
   The database may be more secure, since web surfers would not be able to edit or change the file unless they had access to your database. The directory option may be better for performance, since Tiki would not have to issue a database query each time a file was displayed.
   
   If you use a directory, you must make the directory writable. See Set Directory Permissions for more information. You also need to protect the directory and ensure that users cannot directly access the files. You can accomplish this by using a directory outside your Tiki root (make sure your PHP script can access the directory) or by using an .htaccess file to prevent users from listing the directory's contents.
   

    Warning

   If you store files in the Directory, do not change the directory location after you have updated files to the gallery. If you do, you must manually move the files to the new location — Tiki does not store the directory location at the time of the upload. Therefore, if you change the directory location after uploading several files, Tiki will be unable to locate the older files.
2. Leave the other options as their defaults and click Save and Continue. Tiki saves the changes and loads the next wizard page.