5 Simple open source Libravatar__ compatible avatar image server written in PHP.
7 __ http://wiki.libravatar.org/api/
14 1. Copy ``data/surrogator.config.php.dist`` to ``data/surrogator.config.php``
15 (remove the ``.dist``)
16 2. Adjust the config file to your needs
17 3. Create a default image and put it into the raw folder, name it ``default.png``
18 4. Setup your web server and set the document root to the ``www/`` directory.
19 Make sure you allow the ``.htaccess`` file and have ``mod_rewrite`` activated.
20 5. Add DNS entries for ``_avatars._tcp`` and ``_avatars-sec._tcp``.
21 A bind config file excerpt would look like this::
23 _avatars._tcp.example.org. IN SRV 0 0 80 avatars.example.org
24 _avatars-sec._tcp.example.org. IN SRV 0 0 443 avatars.example.org
26 This makes the avatar server ``avatars.example.org`` responsible for
27 the domain ``example.org``, on ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS).
29 It is possible to use an existing domain as avatar server.
30 Just copy ``avatar.php`` into its document root dir and copy the rewrite rule
31 from ``.htaccess`` into the domain's ``.htaccess`` file if one exists.
32 If not, copy the whole ``.htaccess`` file.
33 After that, you have to point the ``$cfgFile`` path at the beginning of
34 the ``avatar.php`` file to the correct location.
41 1. Put images in ``raw/`` folder.
42 Name has to be email address + image file extension, for example
43 ``foo@example.org.png``.
44 Surrogator supports ``.png`` and ``.jpg``.
45 2. Run ``php surrogator.php``.
46 The small files get generated.
47 3. You will get more information with ``-v``
48 4. When you run ``surrogator.php`` again, it will only generate small files
49 when the raw file is newer than the "square" file in the var folder.
50 You can force the update with ``--force``.
56 Surrogator is licensed under the `AGPL v3`__ or later.
58 __ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html
64 Written by Christian Weiske, cweiske@cweiske.de