How to create an image hosting.



There are a lot of image hosting website emerging these days and all of them are free i.e. you can host your image (upload) without any cost. The biggest question is “What is the need to upload an image?”. The answer is simple to Share !!.

So why to upload your images on some one else server why not on your own website. Sounds Great ? So lets get started



Step1) First of all you will need a hosting services. There are many web hosting service provider many are paid but their are many free also.
Needless to say their are many free hosting provider but i personally like x10hosting.com and byethost.com

We will host on byethost in this guide.

You can create a free web hosting account here:
http://byethost.com/free-hosting/news

Fill this form and then activate the account by verifying the email sent to you.

Don’t forget to save the account information it will be highly use full in future.

Now open the link given in the “Control Panel URL:” in above picture.

Use the user name and password to login.

You will be redirected to your control panel.



That’s all now you have a your own web space.



Step 2) Creating a database

We will need a database for our image hosting website.

For this in your cpanel click on MySQL Database.


Now name your database as “imagehost” (without quotation marks. You can name the database whatever you want.)

Remember the name of the database you just created. Better have a copy of it in your clipboard.



Step 3) Uploading your image hosting website.
So now when you have a web space all you need is to upload your image hosting website.(If you have one ).

Don’t worry you don’t have to write long codes in PHP to handle image libraries neither you have to manage databases.

All this is already done for you.

We will take help of pre made PHP codes generally called scripts.

We will work with a free image hosting website script from scripteen because it is really simple in handling and very powerful.


You can obtain the script from here.
http://webscripts.softpedia.com/scriptDownload/Scripteen-Free-Image-Hosting-Script-Download-45335.html

Now you have to upload it to your web hosting space.

Click on File manger (Screen shot -3 Mark – 02),

Now in the displayed window click on “htdocs” and then click on “upload”.

Choose the download zip file in the Archives section and click on the tick mark to upload on to sever.

After some time a successful upload will show this message (Zip file upload takes some time around 2 to 5 mins so please be patinet.)

Now return back by click the back arrow to the file manager window in htdocs folder.

and select the Scripteen Free Image Hosting Script V2.1 and click on rename.



Rename the folder according to your wish. I am renaming it as “imagehost”.

Now your “htdocs” will look like :


open htdocs by clicking on it.

Select “images” folder and click on “chmod” to change its permission settings.


Now set the permission as 777 i.e.:

Confirm the change in permission by clicking the tick mark and then come back in htdocs folder

That’s all you have successfully uploaded your website to the server now only some steps are needed to set the website and make it running .



Step 4) Configuring the website.
Now open a new tab in your web browser and open the install.php file which you uploaded just now

i.e. you will have to copy your web page URL from the PDF file you saved. It will be something like this

http://talktorohit0504.byethost15.com/

and since our image hosting website files are in a folder named imagehost and we want the file intall.php to run so the complete address is

http://talktorohit0504.byethost15.com/imagehost/install.php


You will get a web page like this

Now fill the text boxes with appropriate data

Database Host, Username and Password you will get from the PDF file you saved named as

Mysql Hostname, user name and password. copy and paste them. The database name is the name of data base which you created in step 2.

Click on continue

Now fill the information according to your wish in the form:

Click on continue


Now give the administrator user name and password to make an administrator account.

This account will have the permissions to change the settings of the websit.



Click on finish


That’s all now all you need is to delete the install.php file from the “imagehost” folder in your “htdocs”

So that’s all you can view your website by your website address as given in PDF file “/Folder name”


For me it is

http://talktorohit0504.byethost15.com/imagehost/

It will vary for you.

So here is the website :

You can login to the website with your administrative account by clicking the login button in the menu and change the website setting from the admin section according to you need.