Installing HomeGallery on OpenBSD

HomeGallery is a self-hosted online photo gallery that allows you to store and organize your photos. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install HomeGallery on an OpenBSD system.

Prerequisites

• OpenBSD system
• Access to the command-line interface
• Administrative privileges

Step 1 - Install required packages

HomeGallery requires some packages to be installed on your OpenBSD system. These include PHP and a web server. Run the following command to install the required packages:

# pkg_add php php-pgsql nginx

Step 2 - Download HomeGallery

Download the HomeGallery tarball from the official website at https://home-gallery.org/download/. You can use the following command to download HomeGallery:

$ ftp https://home-gallery.org/download/homegallery-latest.tar.gz

Step 3 - Extract HomeGallery

Extract the HomeGallery tarball into your web server root directory (/var/www/htdocs/). You can use the following command to extract the tarball:

$ tar xzf homegallery-latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/htdocs/

Step 4 - Configure database

HomeGallery uses PostgreSQL as its database. Create a new PostgreSQL database and user for HomeGallery using the following command:

# su - _postgresql
$ createdb homegallerydb
$ createuser -P homegalleryuser

Step 5 - Configure HomeGallery

HomeGallery uses a configuration file named config.inc.php. Copy the config.inc.sample.php to config.inc.php and edit it to match your configuration.

$ cp /var/www/htdocs/HomeGallery/config.inc.sample.php /var/www/htdocs/HomeGallery/config.inc.php
$ vi /var/www/htdocs/HomeGallery/config.inc.php

Change the following values in config.inc.php:

$dbtype = 'pgsql';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbname = 'homegallerydb';
$dbuser = 'homegalleryuser';
$dbpass = 'password';

Step 6 - Create data directory

Create a directory for storing photos and set its permissions:

# mkdir /var/www/htdocs/HomeGallery/data
# chown www /var/www/htdocs/HomeGallery/data

Step 7 - Configure web server

Configure web server to serve HomeGallery. For NGINX, create a new server block:

# vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Add the following server block:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/htdocs/HomeGallery;
    
    index index.php;
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /html/index.php?$query_string;
    }
    location /html/ {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /html/index.php?$query_string;
    }
    location ~ .php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm.sock;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Replace example.com with your domain or IP address.

Step 8 - Start web server

Start the web server and enable it to start at boot time:

# rcctl enable nginx
# rcctl start nginx

Step 9 - Access HomeGallery

Access your HomeGallery website by opening a web browser and entering your domain or IP address in the URL bar.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed HomeGallery on your OpenBSD system. You can now start uploading and organizing your photos in your very own online gallery.

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