Piwigo is an open-source photo gallery software that is available for free. Installing Piwigo on MXLinux Latest is a straightforward process that can be completed in a few simple steps.
Before installing Piwigo, it's important to make sure that your MXLinux system is up to date. To do so, open the terminal and run the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
To run Piwigo, you need to have a LAMP stack installed on your system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
To install a LAMP stack on MXLinux, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
When prompted, enter a MySQL root password.
Go to the following URL and download the latest version of Piwigo:
Alternatively, you can run the following command to download and extract the latest version of Piwigo:
wget -O piwigo.zip https://piwigo.org/download/dlcounter.php?code=latest
unzip piwigo.zip -d /var/www/html/
Configure Apache to serve the Piwigo files. Open the terminal and edit the Apache configuration file with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Add the following lines of code to the file:
<Directory /var/www/html/piwigo>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Save and exit the file.
Then, restart Apache to apply the changes:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
To run Piwigo, you will need to create a MySQL database. Open the MySQL command-line interface by running:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter the MySQL root password when prompted.
Create a new database and user with the following commands:
CREATE DATABASE piwigo;
CREATE USER 'piwigo'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON piwigo.* TO 'piwigo'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace "password" with a strong password of your choice.
Exit the MySQL command-line interface by running:
exit;
Open a web browser and go to the following URL:
http://localhost/piwigo/
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Piwigo installation process. When prompted for the database information, use the following:
Once the installation is complete, you can log in to the Piwigo interface by going to the following URL:
http://localhost/piwigo/admin.php
Log in with the username "admin" and the password you created during the installation process.
That's it! You have successfully installed Piwigo on MXLinux Latest.
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