This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Lychee, a popular open-source photo management and sharing platform, on Fedora Server. The process is straightforward, and you should be able to complete it within a few minutes.
Before moving forward with the installation process, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
After logging in as a user with sudo privileges, open a terminal window and run the following command to update the system:
sudo dnf update -y
This command will update all the installed packages to their latest versions.
Lychee has some dependencies that you need to install to run it successfully. Enter the following command to install these dependencies:
sudo dnf install -y httpd php php-gd php-mysqlnd php-dom php-json php-exif php-mbstring php-xml php-common
This command will install the Apache web server, PHP, and required PHP modules.
Next, download the Lychee archive from the official website, and extract it to the desired location on your Fedora Server.
wget https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/archive/master.tar.gz
tar -zxvf master.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/lychee
sudo mv Lychee-master/* /var/www/html/lychee/
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/lychee/
Next, you need to configure the Apache web server to serve Lychee. To do that, create a new virtual host file in the Apache configuration directory:
sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/lychee.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/lychee
<Directory /var/www/html/lychee>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/lychee_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/lychee_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace the "yourdomain.com" with your server's DNS hostname or IP address. Save and exit the file.
Now that Apache is configured, start the service and enable it so that it automatically starts after a reboot:
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd
Finally, add a firewall rule to allow HTTP traffic into the server:
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
At this point, Lychee is installed and configured on your Fedora Server. Open a web browser and enter the hostname or IP address of your server in the address bar. You should see the Lychee login screen.
Enter the desired credentials and start exploring the platform!
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Lychee on your Fedora Server. Now you can start organizing and sharing your photos seamlessly.
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