Coppermine is a powerful, user-friendly, and free web gallery application. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Coppermine on OpenSUSE Latest.
The first step is to update your system packages using the following command:
sudo zypper update
This will ensure that your system is up to date.
Coppermine requires a LAMP stack to function correctly. So we will install the following packages:
sudo zypper install apache2 mariadb mariadb-client mariadb-tools php7 php7-mysql php7-gd
During installation, you will be prompted to create a root password for MariaDB. Set a strong password and remember it for later use.
In this step, we will create a new database and user for Coppermine. Use the following commands to log into MariaDB and create a new database:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
CREATE DATABASE coppermine;
Now create a new user and grant all privileges to the Coppermine database:
GRANT ALL ON coppermine.* TO 'cpguser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
In this command, replace cpguser and password with your chosen username and password, respectively.
In this step, we will download and install the Coppermine application.
cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/coppermine-gallery/cpg1.6.x/archive/1.6.08.zip
sudo unzip 1.6.08.zip -d /srv/www/htdocs/
sudo chown -R apache:apache /srv/www/htdocs/cpg1.6.x-1.6.08
You can replace the version 1.6.08 with the latest version of Coppermine.
In this step, we will configure the Coppermine application. Navigate to the Coppermine installation page by entering your server's IP address in your web browser. For example, http://192.168.1.100/cpg1.6.x-1.6.08/. Follow the on-screen instructions and provide the following information:
After completing the configuration wizard, delete the install folder in the Coppermine installation directory:
sudo rm -r /srv/www/htdocs/cpg1.6.x-1.6.08/install
If you are using SELinux, you will need to configure it to allow Apache to access the Coppermine files. Use the following command:
sudo chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /srv/www/htdocs/
sudo chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /srv/www/htdocs/cpg1.6.x-1.6.08/albums_user/
That's it! You have successfully installed and configured Coppermine on OpenSUSE Latest. You can now upload your images to the album and access them on your Coppermine-powered website. Enjoy!
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