Installing imgproxy on Elementary OS Latest

This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install imgproxy on Elementary OS. Imgproxy is an open source image processing server and can resize, crop and compress images on-the-fly.

Prerequisites

• A system running Elementary OS.
• Basic knowledge of using the terminal.

Step 1: Install dependencies

Before installing imgproxy, you need to install some dependencies.

Open the terminal and execute the following command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev

Step 2: Install Go

Imgproxy is written in the Go programming language, so we need to install Go to compile imgproxy. Execute the below command to download and install Go:

sudo apt-get install golang-go

Step 3: Download and install imgproxy

We will download and install imgproxy now.

Execute the following commands to clone the imgproxy repository:

go get github.com/DarthGeek01/imgproxy

This will clone the imgproxy repository into the $GOPATH/src/github.com/DarthGeek01/imgproxy directory.

Now, navigate to the imgproxy directory using the following command:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/DarthGeek01/imgproxy

Run the below command to download and install the necessary packages:

go get -u ./...

Once the packages are downloaded and installed, you can compile the imgproxy binary using the following command:

make build

This will create a binary named imgproxy in the current directory.

Step 4: Configure imgproxy

Create a new file named config.yml in the same directory as the imgproxy binary with the following configuration:

server:
  port: 8080

source:
  url: "https://example.com/images"

signed_urls:
  key: "my-secret-key"
  salt: "my-salt"

resizers:
- url: "https://rsz.io"
- url: "http://localhost:3030"
  api_key: "my-api-key"
  insecure: true

defaults:
  format: "webp"
  quality: 90
  resize:
    height: 400
    width: 400

Note: Update the values of source.url, signed_urls.key, signed_urls.salt, and resizers.api_key to match your own configuration.

Step 5: Running imgproxy

To start the imgproxy server, execute the following command:

./imgproxy -config config.yml

This will start the imgproxy server on port 8080. You can now visit http://localhost:8080/unsafe/400x400/image.jpg to test imgproxy.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured imgproxy on your Elementary OS system.

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