Coppermine is a popular web-based photo gallery application that allows you to create and manage your photo albums online. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Coppermine on POP! OS, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
Before you begin, make sure that you have the following:
The first step is to download the latest version of Coppermine from the official website:
wget https://github.com/coppermine-gallery/coppermine/archive/master.zip
Once the download is complete, extract the zip file:
unzip master.zip
Before you can use Coppermine, you need to install its dependencies. To do this, navigate to the Coppermine directory and run the following command:
composer install
This will install the required dependencies in the vendor directory.
Next, you need to create a MySQL database for Coppermine:
mysql -uroot -p
Enter your root password and then run the following SQL queries to create a new database:
CREATE DATABASE coppermine;
GRANT ALL ON coppermine.* TO 'coppermineuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'copperminepassword';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Make sure to replace coppermineuser and copperminepassword with your desired database user and password.
Navigate to the include directory in the Coppermine directory and copy the config.sample.php file to config.php:
cp config.sample.php config.php
Next, edit the config.php file and update the following settings to match your environment:
$CONFIG['db_type'] = 'mysqli';
$CONFIG['db_user'] = 'coppermineuser';
$CONFIG['db_password'] = 'copperminepassword';
$CONFIG['db_name'] = 'coppermine';
$CONFIG['db_server'] = 'localhost';
Save and close the file.
Set the necessary file and directory permissions for Coppermine to function correctly:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/coppermine
sudo chmod -R 755 /path/to/coppermine
Create an Apache virtual host configuration file for Coppermine:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/coppermine.conf
Add the following configuration to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/coppermine
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory /path/to/coppermine>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Make sure to replace /path/to/coppermine with the actual path to your Coppermine installation and example.com with your own domain name.
Enable the virtual host and reload Apache:
sudo a2ensite coppermine.conf
sudo systemctl reload apache2
Open your web browser and go to http://example.com/install.php (replace example.com with your own domain name). Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
Once the installation is complete, edit the config.php file again and set the following option to false:
$CONFIG['signup_protection'] = false;
This will allow users to sign up and create their own galleries.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Coppermine on POP! OS. You can now start creating your own photo galleries and sharing them with others.
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