Zenphoto is a free and open-source content management system for managing and sharing photos. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Zenphoto on Fedora CoreOS latest.
Before we start, you need a Linux server running Fedora CoreOS latest. You also need sudo or root access to the server.
Zenphoto requires a web server to run. We will install Apache web server using the following command:
sudo dnf install httpd
Zenphoto is built on PHP. We will install PHP and other PHP modules required by Zenphoto using the following command:
sudo dnf install php php-mysqlnd php-gd php-mbstring php-xml
Zenphoto requires a database backend. We will install MariaDB, a popular open-source MySQL-compatible database server, using the following command:
sudo dnf install mariadb-server
We will create a MariaDB database and user for Zenphoto using the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE zenphoto;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zenphoto.* TO 'zenphoto'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Replace "your_password" with a strong password of your choice.
We will download the latest version of Zenphoto from its official website and extract it to the Apache web root directory using the following commands:
cd /var/www/html
sudo wget https://www.zenphoto.org/dl/zenphoto-latest-full.zip
sudo unzip zenphoto-latest-full.zip
sudo mv zenphoto-* zenphoto
sudo chown -R apache:apache zenphoto/
We will configure Zenphoto by editing its configuration file using the following command:
sudo nano /var/www/html/zenphoto/zp-data/zenphoto.cfg.php
Find the following lines and update them with your MariaDB database and user details:
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbusername = 'zenphoto';
$dbpassword = 'your_password';
$dbname = 'zenphoto';
Save and exit the file.
We will configure Apache to serve Zenphoto using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/zenphoto.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
Alias /zenphoto /var/www/html/zenphoto
<Directory /var/www/html/zenphoto>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Save and exit the file.
We will start Apache and MariaDB services using the following commands:
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl start mariadb
We will enable Apache and MariaDB services to start automatically on boot using the following commands:
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
Open your web browser and navigate to http://your_server_ip/zenphoto. You should see the Zenphoto setup wizard. Follow the wizard to complete the installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Zenphoto on Fedora CoreOS latest.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Zenphoto on Fedora CoreOS latest. Zenphoto is a powerful and flexible content management system for managing and sharing photos. It can be customized and extended with plugins and themes.
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