Zenphoto is a popular web-based photo gallery CMS (Content Management System). It is written in PHP and uses MySQL database to store the data. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Zenphoto on FreeBSD Latest.
Before we start with the installation process of Zenphoto, you need to have the following prerequisites installed on your FreeBSD Latest system:
The first step is to install all dependencies required by Zenphoto. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo pkg install apache24 php74 php74-mysqli php74-gd php74-gettext php74-exif php74-mbstring php74-iconv git
Now that all dependencies are installed, we will download the latest Zenphoto source code using Git. To do this, run the following command:
sudo git clone https://github.com/zenphoto/zenphoto.git /usr/local/www/apache24/data/zenphoto
This command will clone the Zenphoto repository to the /usr/local/www/apache24/data/zenphoto directory.
Next, we need to configure Apache to serve Zenphoto from the /usr/local/www/apache24/data/zenphoto directory. To do this, we will create a new virtual host configuration file.
Run the following command to create a new configuration file named zenphoto.conf:
sudo nano /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/zenphoto.conf
Add the following code to the file.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/apache24/data/zenphoto
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory "/usr/local/www/apache24/data/zenphoto">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog "/usr/local/www/apache24/data/zenphoto/error.log"
CustomLog "/usr/local/www/apache24/data/zenphoto/access.log" combined
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file.
Restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
sudo service apache24 restart
Before we can proceed with the installation process of Zenphoto, we need to create a new database and user for it. Log in to the MySQL server shell by running:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database named zenphoto:
CREATE DATABASE zenphoto;
Create a new user named zenphoto and grant all privileges on the zenphoto database:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zenphoto.* TO 'zenphoto'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'zenphoto_password';
Replace zenphoto_password with a strong password.
Exit the MySQL server shell:
exit
Now we are ready to start the installation process of Zenphoto. Open your web browser and navigate to http://example.com. This should redirect you to the Zenphoto installation page.
Follow the on-screen instructions to configure Zenphoto. When prompted for the database settings, enter the following:
Replace <zenphoto_password> with the password you set in Step 4.
To secure the installation, you should remove the install.php file from the /usr/local/www/apache24/data/zenphoto directory:
sudo rm /usr/local/www/apache24/data/zenphoto/zp-core/install.php
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Zenphoto on FreeBSD Latest. We started by installing all dependencies, downloading Zenphoto from Github, configuring Apache to serve Zenphoto, creating a database and user, and finally configuring Zenphoto. You now have a fully functional Zenphoto installation running on your FreeBSD Latest system!
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