PictShare is a free, open-source image hosting and sharing platform that can be installed on your own server. This tutorial will guide you through the steps of installing PictShare on a Windows 10 machine.
Go to the PictShare website at https://www.pictshare.net/ and download the latest version of the software.
PictShare requires a web server and PHP to run. We will be using XAMPP, which is a free and open-source web server solution. Download XAMPP from the official website, https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html, and install it on your machine. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Create a folder named "PictShare" in the XAMPP "htdocs" directory. This is typically located in "C:\xampp\htdocs". Move the downloaded PictShare files to this folder.
Open XAMPP and start the Apache and MySQL services. Open your web browser and navigate to "http://localhost/phpmyadmin/". Click on the "New" button on the left sidebar to create a new database. Name the database "pictshare" and select "utf8mb4_unicode_ci" as the collation. Click "Create" to create the database.
Open the "config.php" file in the PictShare folder. Update the following variables with the settings you used in Step 4:
define("DB_HOST", "localhost");
define("DB_USER", "root");
define("DB_PASSWORD", "");
define("DB_DATABASE", "pictshare");
Save the file.
Open your web browser and navigate to "http://localhost/PictShare/". You should see the PictShare interface.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed PictShare on your Windows 10 machine!\
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