Zenphoto is a popular, open-source photo management and gallery application that can be used to organize and display your digital photography. This tutorial will show you how to install Zenphoto on Arch Linux.
Before starting this tutorial, you'll need the following:
To install Zenphoto on Arch Linux, first, we need to install the Zenphoto package from the official Arch Linux repository. Run the following command to install the package:
$ sudo pacman -S zenphoto
Next, we need to configure PHP to enable some required modules. Zenphoto requires the following PHP modules to be enabled to work correctly:
To enable the required PHP modules, open the php.ini file using your favorite text editor. For example, using nano:
$ sudo nano /etc/php/php.ini
Uncomment the following lines:
extension=gd
extension=pdo_mysql.so
extension=exif
Save and exit the file.
After making the above changes, restart the Apache or nginx service:
$ sudo systemctl restart httpd
Zenphoto stores its configuration files in the /etc/webapps/zenphoto directory. To configure Zenphoto, create a new configuration file from the default template:
$ sudo cp /etc/webapps/zenphoto/zenphoto.cfg.php.new /etc/webapps/zenphoto/zenphoto.cfg.php
Next, edit the configuration file:
$ sudo nano /etc/webapps/zenphoto/zenphoto.cfg.php
Replace the following settings with your own information:
/*
| Zenphoto configuration file
| originally created AUTOMATICALLY.
| check the albums folder is in
| the proper location and use this file
| to adjust configurational settings.
*/
$conf['dbtype'] = 'mysql';
$conf['dbhost'] = 'localhost';
$conf['dbuser'] = 'zenphoto';
$conf['dbpassword'] = 'password';
$conf['dbname'] = 'zenphoto';
Save and exit the file.
Now, initialize the Zenphoto installation by running the following command:
$ sudo /usr/share/webapps/zenphoto/bin/setup.sh --dbhost=localhost --dbname=zenphoto --dbuser=username --dbpassword=password --adminuser=admin --adminpass=adminpass
Replace the --dbuser, --dbpassword, --adminuser, and --adminpass flags with your own information.
After running the above command, open your web browser and navigate to http://your-server-ip/zenphoto. You will be prompted to complete the installation process.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install and configure Zenphoto on Arch Linux. Now you can start organizing and displaying your digital photography with Zenphoto.
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