Thumbor is a Python-based open-source photo thumbnailing service which is used by various websites for processing and serving images. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Thumbor on MXLinux.
The following prerequisites are required before proceeding.
First, we need to update the system to ensure that all packages are up to date.
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Thumbor requires certain dependencies to function properly. In a terminal, type the following command to install these dependencies.
sudo apt install python3-dev python3-pip libjpeg-dev libpq-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libwebp-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libyaml-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev
You can install Thumbor using pip, which is the standard package installer for Python.
pip3 install thumbor
By default, Thumbor will listen on localhost:8000. You can configure Thumbor to listen on a different port or interface by creating a configuration file.
Create a new directory for the configuration file:
sudo mkdir /etc/thumbor
Create the configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/thumbor/thumbor.conf
Add the following configuration to the file:
[thumbor]
security_key = INSERT_YOUR_KEY_HERE
Make sure to replace INSERT_YOUR_KEY_HERE with a secret key that you will use to sign URLs. You can generate a secret key using the Python secrets module.
import secrets
secrets.token_hex(32)
For more information on the available configuration options, please visit the official documentation.
Start the Thumbor service with the following command:
thumbor --conf /etc/thumbor/thumbor.conf
You should see the following output:
INFO - thumbor.service - running on 0.0.0.0:8000
INFO - thumbor.service - using engine module thumbor.engines.pil
INFO - thumbor.security - loaded Crypto security handler
You can now access Thumbor by visiting http://localhost:8000.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Thumbor on MXLinux. You can now use Thumbor to serve images on your website.
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