Trovebox is a hosted service, Open Photo is the community version

http://theopenphotoproject.org/documentation/guide/InstallationUbuntuApache

https://github.com/photo/frontend

On 5/29/2013 8:22 PM, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:

Sorry about that, I could have sworn that it was a downloadable package, not a hosted service.

shawn

On May 29, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Shawn Wallbridge <shawn@wallbridge.net mailto:shawn@wallbridge.net> wrote:

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I saw a demo site running OpenPhoto a while back. But I never looked into it.

It's renamed Trovebox now. https://trovebox.com/

shawn

On May 29, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Gilles Detillieux <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

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After spending too much time figuring out how to install and configure My Photo Gallery (http://fuzzymonkey.net/software/photogallery/) on my CentOS 5 web server, only to realize it's completely inadequate for the task we have in mind, I thought I'd turn to the group for help before wasting a lot more time. Do any of you have experience with good photo gallery software for Linux?

I want something web based, which would make it reasonably easy to invite select individuals to upload photos for various events (seminars & symposia) we hold. Ideally, we would set up a gallery for each event, then e-mail attendees access info (username & password) which would give them access to that gallery to upload photos taken at the event. After a time, we'd close off access for uploads, e.g. by changing the password, but keep the gallery up for public viewing from our site. It would have to be something really easy to use, simple and reliable, so that invitees don't have to spend a lot of time leaning or fighting with the site to upload a half-dozen pictures. It would be really nice if it allowed them to add comments to the photos too.

I was thinking of trying Gallery 2 next, which is apparently available from EPEL for CentOS 5. But it looks like something pretty big and complicated with lots of packages, and it needs an SQL database on the back end, so I don't know how much of an effort it will be to install, configure and learn. So, I thought I'd ask before investing a whole lot more time on this. Any experience with this or other gallery software? What's good out there that would fit the bill for our needs? Or should we just give up on this idea and get everyone to upload to Flickr?

Thanks! Gilles

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Thanks, Wyatt, John, Shawn, Sean and Jeff. Though I was going to try Gallery 2 because of the EPEL RPMs for it, I think I'll go with version 3 if the setup is that simple. If that doesn't do the job, I may investigate OpenPhoto, or else go with an online service.

On 05/29/2013 08:27 PM, Wyatt Zacharias wrote:

I've used Gallery 3, and setup is quite simple, though it does require a sql server. Once you extract the tar ball with all the php files I think it's as simple as running the setup.php file from your browser and plugging in your sql server details and the automated script does the rest.

On May 29, 2013 5:01 PM, "Gilles Detillieux" <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

After spending too much time figuring out how to install and
configure My Photo Gallery
(http://fuzzymonkey.net/software/photogallery/) on my CentOS 5 web
server, only to realize it's completely inadequate for the task we
have in mind, I thought I'd turn to the group for help before
wasting a lot more time.  Do any of you have experience with good
photo gallery software for Linux?

I want something web based, which would make it reasonably easy to
invite select individuals to upload photos for various events
(seminars & symposia) we hold.  Ideally, we would set up a gallery
for each event, then e-mail attendees access info (username &
password) which would give them access to that gallery to upload
photos taken at the event.  After a time, we'd close off access
for uploads, e.g. by changing the password, but keep the gallery
up for public viewing from our site.  It would have to be
something really easy to use, simple and reliable, so that
invitees don't have to spend a lot of time leaning or fighting
with the site to upload a half-dozen pictures.  It would be really
nice if it allowed them to add comments to the photos too.

I was thinking of trying Gallery 2 next, which is apparently
available from EPEL for CentOS 5.  But it looks like something
pretty big and complicated with lots of packages, and it needs an
SQL database on the back end, so I don't know how much of an
effort it will be to install, configure and learn.  So, I thought
I'd ask before investing a whole lot more time on this.  Any
experience with this or other gallery software?  What's good out
there that would fit the bill for our needs?  Or should we just
give up on this idea and get everyone to upload to Flickr?

Thanks!
Gilles

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From: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of Gilles Detillieux Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 3:19 PM To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] recommendations for good linux web server based photo gallery software?

Just a quick followup: I tried to install Gallery3 on my RHEL 5 clone but it balked because the PHP version wasn't high enough. I could have forced the issue by uninstalling all the php RPMs and installing php53 instead, but I was really concerned that might break something with my squirrelmail installation, and I didn't want to take that chance. So, I installed the gallery2 RPMs from EPEL, and it seems to be working fine now. It took quite a bit of fiddling to get the configuration working the way I wanted, and I've had to turn off SELinux enforcing. I'm going to collect some audit data to figure out what rules to add so I can turn enforcing back on without breaking Gallery again.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Gilles

On 05/30/2013 10:52 AM, Gilles Detillieux wrote:

Thanks, Wyatt, John, Shawn, Sean and Jeff. Though I was going to try Gallery 2 because of the EPEL RPMs for it, I think I'll go with version 3 if the setup is that simple. If that doesn't do the job, I may investigate OpenPhoto, or else go with an online service.

On 05/29/2013 08:27 PM, Wyatt Zacharias wrote:

I've used Gallery 3, and setup is quite simple, though it does require a sql server. Once you extract the tar ball with all the php files I think it's as simple as running the setup.php file from your browser and plugging in your sql server details and the automated script does the rest.

On May 29, 2013 5:01 PM, "Gilles Detillieux" <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca > wrote:

After spending too much time figuring out how to install and configure My Photo Gallery (http://fuzzymonkey.net/software/photogallery/) on my CentOS 5 web server, only to realize it's completely inadequate for the task we have in mind, I thought I'd turn to the group for help before wasting a lot more time. Do any of you have experience with good photo gallery software for Linux?

I want something web based, which would make it reasonably easy to invite select individuals to upload photos for various events (seminars & symposia) we hold. Ideally, we would set up a gallery for each event, then e-mail attendees access info (username & password) which would give them access to that gallery to upload photos taken at the event. After a time, we'd close off access for uploads, e.g. by changing the password, but keep the gallery up for public viewing from our site. It would have to be something really easy to use, simple and reliable, so that invitees don't have to spend a lot of time leaning or fighting with the site to upload a half-dozen pictures. It would be really nice if it allowed them to add comments to the photos too.

I was thinking of trying Gallery 2 next, which is apparently available from EPEL for CentOS 5. But it looks like something pretty big and complicated with lots of packages, and it needs an SQL database on the back end, so I don't know how much of an effort it will be to install, configure and learn. So, I thought I'd ask before investing a whole lot more time on this. Any experience with this or other gallery software? What's good out there that would fit the bill for our needs? Or should we just give up on this idea and get everyone to upload to Flickr?

Thanks! Gilles

On 2013-05-30 08:28, John Lange wrote:

I've used Gallery (http://galleryproject.org/) and it's pretty easy. You shouldn't be intimidated by the SQL requirement. Most distro's either have SQL installed by default or it's an easy package.

Also, if the thought of managing a SQL database is what you find intimidating, I'd highly recommend installing phpMyAdmin. It makes most of the tasks you're likely to encounter much easier to deal with. As long as you've got a basic understanding of relational database concepts, this saves you having to remember SQL and MySQL syntax.

It's been a while since I set it up, but if I recall correctly Gallery has a really easy web-based auto-magical setup. Basically clicking next a few times. I haven't tried the other new ones mentioned in this thread, but back when I was setting up Gallery, it was the only one that was worth anything.

That being said, I'll second Sean's comment. I don't run Gallery any more because doing it yourself isn't worth the effort when there are lots of site out there that do the same thing. You'll notice that Gallery is struggling to find maintainers and it's almost certainly due to the fact that people don't see value in DIY.

I would also second that, unless you're concerned about privacy issues with using off-site services.

The days of the average person having their own server and hosting your own applications is over. I don't know how I feel about that...

Regards,

John

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Sean Walberg <sean@ertw.com mailto:sean@ertw.com> wrote:

Just throw it on your social networking site of choice. Most people
already have an account, it saves you time managing a site, and it
saves the viewer even more time. Or put another way, if you store it
on your own server people will look at it once and forget about it.
Put it on a site they already spend time on and they might come back
and even engage with other attendees.

As silly as the site is, Facebook does a really good job of doing
this. I'm sure Flickr is the same too.

Sean

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Gilles Detillieux
<grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca <mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca>> wrote:

    After spending too much time figuring out how to install and
    configure My Photo Gallery
    (http://fuzzymonkey.net/__software/photogallery/
    <http://fuzzymonkey.net/software/photogallery/>) on my CentOS 5
    web server, only to realize it's completely inadequate for the
    task we have in mind, I thought I'd turn to the group for help
    before wasting a lot more time.  Do any of you have experience
    with good photo gallery software for Linux?

    I want something web based, which would make it reasonably easy
    to invite select individuals to upload photos for various events
    (seminars & symposia) we hold.  Ideally, we would set up a
    gallery for each event, then e-mail attendees access info
    (username & password) which would give them access to that
    gallery to upload photos taken at the event.  After a time, we'd
    close off access for uploads, e.g. by changing the password, but
    keep the gallery up for public viewing from our site.  It would
    have to be something really easy to use, simple and reliable, so
    that invitees don't have to spend a lot of time leaning or
    fighting with the site to upload a half-dozen pictures.  It
    would be really nice if it allowed them to add comments to the
    photos too.

    I was thinking of trying Gallery 2 next, which is apparently
    available from EPEL for CentOS 5.  But it looks like something
    pretty big and complicated with lots of packages, and it needs
    an SQL database on the back end, so I don't know how much of an
    effort it will be to install, configure and learn.  So, I
    thought I'd ask before investing a whole lot more time on this.
      Any experience with this or other gallery software?  What's
    good out there that would fit the bill for our needs?  Or should
    we just give up on this idea and get everyone to upload to Flickr?

    Thanks!
    Gilles

On 05/30/2013 12:55 PM, Tim Lavoie wrote:

On 2013-05-30, at 11:10, "Gilbert E. Detillieux" gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca wrote:

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Also, if the thought of managing a SQL database is what you find intimidating, I'd highly recommend installing phpMyAdmin. It makes most of the tasks you're likely to encounter much easier to deal with. As long as you've got a basic understanding of relational database concepts, this saves you having to remember SQL and MySQL syntax.

If you're using phpMyAdmin, I'd hope you're comfortable with system tasks anyway, especially patching. Between the number of CVEs for the package and the amount of door-knocking I see looking for it, I'd want to lock it down very, very well.

Yeah, I thought the same thing when Gilbert suggested phpMyAdmin. If I do end up setting it up, I will certainly a) read up on how to secure it properly, and b) make sure I stay on top of updates for it.