PictShare is an open-source, self-hosted image management system, written in PHP. It provides an easy way to upload, store, and share images on your own server. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of PictShare on MXLinux Latest.
Before we start, you need to have the following:
To download PictShare, you can use the following command:
sudo wget https://github.com/chrisiaut/pictshare/releases/download/v2.4.1/pictshare_v2.4.1.zip
This will download the latest version of PictShare to your server.
Once you've downloaded PictShare, you can use the following command to unzip it:
sudo unzip pictshare_v2.4.1.zip -d /var/www/html/
This will unzip PictShare to the default Apache2 web root directory. You can change the directory to any other location of your choice.
Next, we need to create a new MySQL/MariaDB database and user for PictShare. You can use the following commands to create a new database and user:
sudo mysql -u root -p
# Enter the MySQL root password when prompted
CREATE DATABASE pictshare;
CREATE USER 'pictshare_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pictshare_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON pictshare.* TO 'pictshare_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
This will create a new database named "pictshare", a new user named "pictshare_user", and grant all privileges to the user.
Next, we need to configure PictShare to use the MySQL/MariaDB database we just created. You can do this by editing the config.php file located in the PictShare directory. You can use the following command to edit the file:
sudo nano /var/www/html/pictshare_v2.4.1/config.php
Find the following lines in the file:
$config['database']['host'] = 'localhost';
$config['database']['user'] = 'root';
$config['database']['password'] = '';
$config['database']['database'] = 'pictshare';
And update them with your MySQL/MariaDB database information:
$config['database']['host'] = 'localhost';
$config['database']['user'] = 'pictshare_user';
$config['database']['password'] = 'pictshare_password';
$config['database']['database'] = 'pictshare';
Save and close the file.
Lastly, we need to create two directories for PictShare to store uploads and cache files. You can use the following command to create the directories:
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/pictshare_v2.4.1/uploads
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/pictshare_v2.4.1/cache
And set the correct permissions:
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/pictshare_v2.4.1/uploads
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/pictshare_v2.4.1/cache
That's it! You have successfully installed and configured PictShare on MXLinux Latest. You can now access PictShare by visiting your domain name or public IP address in a web browser.
http://yourdomain.com/pictshare_v2.4.1
If everything is working correctly, you should see the PictShare homepage.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and configure PictShare on MXLinux Latest. With PictShare, you can easily manage and share your images on your own server.
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