If you’re a photographer and want to show your work via intuitive photo management platform, Piwigo should be a great place to start. The steps below shows you how to install it on Ubuntu with Nginx HTTP server support.
Piwigo is a free, open-source, and photo gallery software built on the LAMP / LEMP stack and licensed under the GNU General Public License (version 2). Organisations, teams and individuals can use it to display their photos gallery and porfolio to current and perspective clients.
This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Piwigo on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP 7.2 support.
To get started with installing Piwigo, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Install Nginx HTTP Server
Piwigo requires a webserver and the second most popular webserver in use today is Nginx. So, go and install Nginx on Ubuntu by running the commands below:
sudo apt update sudo apt install nginx
Next, run the commands below to stop, start and enable Nginx service to always start up with the server boots.
sudo systemctl stop nginx.service sudo systemctl start nginx.service sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
Step 2: Install MariaDB
Piwigo also requires a database server. and MariaDB database server is a great place to start. To install it run the commands below.
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
After installing MariaDB, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable MariaDB service to always start up when the server boots.
Run these on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mysql.service sudo systemctl start mysql.service sudo systemctl enable mysql.service
Run these on Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service sudo systemctl start mariadb.service sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
After that, run the commands below to secure MariaDB server by creating a root password and disallowing remote root access.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.
- Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter
- Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
- New password: Enter password
- Re-enter new password: Repeat password
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y
Restart MariaDB server
sudo systemctl restart mysql.service
Step 3: Install PHP7.2-FPM and Related Modules
PHP 7.2 isn’t available on Ubuntu default repositories… in order to install it, you will have to get it from third-party repositories.
Run the commands below to add the below third party repository to upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM
sudo apt update
Run the commands below to install PHP 7.2-FPM and related modules.
sudo apt install php7.2-fpm php7.2-common php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-intl php7.2-mysql php7.2-cli php7.2 php7.2-ldap php7.2-zip php7.2-curl
After install PHP, run the commands below to open FPM PHP default file.
sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini
Then make the change the following lines below in the file and save.
file_uploads = On allow_url_fopen = On memory_limit = 256M cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0 upload_max_filesize = 100M date.timezone = America/Chicago
Step 4: Create Piwigo Database
Now that you’ve install all the packages that are required, continue below to start configuring the servers. First run the commands below to create Piwigo database.
Run the commands below to logon to the database server. When prompted for a password, type the root password you created above.
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then create a database called piwigo
CREATE DATABASE piwigo;
Create a database user called piwigouser with new password
CREATE USER 'piwigouser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
Then grant the user full access to the database.
GRANT ALL ON piwigo.* TO 'piwigouser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Finally, save your changes and exit.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;
Step 5: Download Piwigo Latest Release
Next, visit Piwigo site and download the latest version.
After downloading, run the commands below to extract the download file into Nginx root directory.
sudo apt install curl cd /tmp && curl -o piwigo.zip unzip piwigo.zip sudo mv piwigo /var/www/html/piwigo
Then run the commands below to set the correct permissions for Concrete5 to function.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/piwigo/ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/piwigo/
Step 6: Configure Nginx
Finally, configure Apahce2 site configuration file for Piwigo. This file will control how users access.
content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called piwigo
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/piwigo
Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your own domain name and directory root location.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/html/piwigo;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
client_max_body_size 100M;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Save the file and exit.
Step 7: Enable the Piwigo
After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/piwigo /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Step 8 : Restart Nginx
To load all the settings above, restart Nginx by running the commands below.
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
Then open your browser and browse to the server domain name followed by install. You should see setup wizard to complete. Please follow the wizard carefully.
Then follow the on-screen instructions until you’ve successfully installed Piwigo.
Enjoy!
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