Lychee is a free and open-source self-hosted photo management tool. It allows you to easily upload, manage, and share your photos with your friends and family. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Lychee on FreeBSD latest.
Before we start installing Lychee, we need to install some required packages. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pkg install php74 php74-extensions nginx mariadb105-server
After installing the packages, we need to configure the MariaDB database. Run the following command to create the required database and user:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE lychee;
CREATE USER 'lychee'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON lychee.* TO 'lychee'@'localhost';
Replace 'password' with a strong password of your choice.
Flush the privileges and exit the MariaDB server:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Run the following command to download and extract the latest version of Lychee:
curl -o lychee.tar.gz https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/archive/master.tar.gz
tar -xzf lychee.tar.gz
Move the extracted Lychee directory to the Nginx document root directory:
sudo mv Lychee-master /usr/local/www/nginx/lychee
Change the ownership of the Lychee directory to the Nginx user:
sudo chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/nginx/lychee
Create a new Nginx server block for Lychee:
sudo nano /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-available/lychee.conf
Add the following configuration block to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name your_domain.com; # change this to your domain name or server IP address
root /usr/local/www/nginx/lychee/;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php74-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Save and close the file.
Create a symbolic link to enable the configuration:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-available/lychee.conf /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the Nginx configuration:
sudo nginx -t
If there are no errors, reload Nginx:
sudo service nginx reload
Edit the Lychee configuration file:
sudo nano /usr/local/www/nginx/lychee/data/config.php
Update the following parameters with the appropriate values:
$databaseHost = 'localhost';
$databaseUser = 'lychee';
$databasePassword = 'password';
$databaseName = 'lychee';
Save and close the file.
Open your web browser and navigate to the following address: http://your_domain.com/. Replace 'your_domain.com' with your domain name or server IP address.
The installation wizard should appear. Follow the wizard to complete the installation. When prompted, enter the database and Lychee admin user credentials.
You have successfully installed Lychee on FreeBSD latest. You can now upload your photos and manage them using Lychee. If you have any problem while setting up Lychee, refer to the official Lychee documentation or ask for help in the Lychee community forum.
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