HomeGallery is an open-source self-hosted photo gallery platform, that allows you to upload, organize, and share your pictures from your personal cloud or web server. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install HomeGallery on Linux Mint latest, step-by-step.
Before you start installing, make sure to have the following,
HomeGallery requires some PHP extensions to be installed in your system. Run the following command to check if these extensions are already installed on your system.
sudo apt list --installed | grep php
The required PHP extensions are:
If any of these packages are not installed, use the following command to install them:
sudo apt install php7.2-mysqli php7.2-imagick php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-mbstring
For the HomeGallery installation, you need a MySQL/MariaDB database server running on your system. To install MariaDB, use the following command:
sudo apt install mariadb-server
After installation, you need to secure your MariaDB installation by running the following command:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
You will be prompted with some questions, follow the on-screen instructions to complete the process.
Next, you create a new database and database user for HomeGallery to use. For example, to create a new database called homegallery and a new user called homegalleryuser with the password password, use the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE homegallery;
CREATE USER 'homegalleryuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON homegallery.* TO 'homegalleryuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Next, you need to configure the Apache virtual host for HomeGallery. Create a new configuration file named homegallery.conf in the /etc/apache2/sites-available/ directory, and add the following configuration:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/homegallery.conf
Then add the following content:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/homegallery
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory /var/www/homegallery/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file.
Next, activate the virtual host by running the following commands:
sudo a2ensite homegallery.conf
sudo service apache2 restart
For the latest version, check the official HomeGallery website https://home-gallery.org/download/. After you download the tar file, run the following commands:
cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/releases/download/v0.7.2/homegallery-linux-amd64-0.7.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf homegallery-linux-amd64-0.7.2.tar.gz
sudo mv homegallery /var/www/homegallery
Make sure to replace homegallery-linux-amd64-0.7.2.tar.gz with the actual name of the tar file downloaded.
Now you need to configure HomeGallery by creating a config.yml file in the homegallery directory.
sudo nano /var/www/homegallery/config.yml
Then add the following content:
database:
host: localhost
port: 3306
name: homegallery
user: homegalleryuser
password: password
photoprism:
url: https://example.com
storage: /var/www/homegallery/pictures
thumbs: /var/www/homegallery/thumbs
auth:
mode: internal
users:
admin:
password: mypassword
security:
tls: selfsigned
password_cost: 11
password_random: 21
Note that in your config.yml file, you should use your own values instead of those shown above.
After completing the configuration process, you can start HomeGallery by running the following command:
cd /var/www/homegallery/
./homegallery -config config.yml
Then access HomeGallery via the URL http://example.com.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed HomeGallery on Linux Mint latest. You can now start uploading and organizing your photos on your own self-hosted photo gallery platform.
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