Zenphoto is a powerful and user-friendly photo management application that allows individuals and organizations to showcase their images on the internet. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Zenphoto on POP! OS Latest.
Apache is the most widely used web server in the Linux community. To install Apache, execute the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2
Once Apache is installed, enable and start the service with the following commands:
sudo systemctl enable apache2
sudo systemctl start apache2
Zenphoto is built on PHP, so we need to install it on POP! OS Latest. Execute the following command to install PHP:
sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
Once PHP is installed, restart Apache with the following command:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
To install Zenphoto, we will use the command line. Execute the following commands to download the latest version of Zenphoto and extract it into the default Apache web root directory:
cd /var/www/html/
sudo wget https://www.zenphoto.org/download-file.php?file=zenphoto-latest.zip -O zenphoto.zip
sudo unzip zenphoto.zip
sudo mv zenphoto-* zenphoto
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data zenphoto
Before accessing the Zenphoto web interface, we need to create a new MySQL database and user for Zenphoto. Execute the following command to install the necessary packages:
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
Once MariaDB is installed, secure the installation with the following command:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
After securing the installation, create a new database and user with the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE USER 'zenphoto'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
CREATE DATABASE zenphoto;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zenphoto.* TO 'zenphoto'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Next, we need to configure Zenphoto with the database details. Navigate to the zenphoto directory and edit the zp-config.php file:
cd /var/www/html/zenphoto/
sudo nano zp-config.php
Locate the following lines and replace the default values with your MySQL database credentials:
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_USER', 'zenphoto');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'your_password');
define('DB_NAME', 'zenphoto');
Save and exit the file.
Now that Zenphoto is installed and configured, you can access it by navigating to your server's IP address in your web browser. For example:
http://your_server_ip_address/zenphoto
You should see the Zenphoto installation page where you can set up your admin account and configure settings for your gallery.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Zenphoto on POP! OS Latest.
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