Photo Gallery with igal - online image gallery generator

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All you want is share your photos, but you don't want to install one of these bloated media servers? igal is for you!

All users
wget http://www.stanford.edu/~epop/igal/igal-1.4.tar.gz tar -xvzf igal-1.4.tar.gz cd igal-1.4 mkdir -p /usr/local/bin cp igal /usr/local/bin/ chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/igal mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1 cp igal.1 /usr/local/man/man1/ mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/igal cp README THANKS ChangeLog COPYING indextemplate.html slidetemplate.html tile.png igal.css /usr/local/lib/igal/

Debian users
apt-get install libjpeg-progs netpbm

All you need from netpbm is the pnmscale binary. Optionally, if you want to conserve disk space,

cp -a /usr/bin/pnmscale /usr/local/bin/ cp -a /usr/lib/libnetpbm.so.1* /usr/local/lib/ apt-get remove netpbm

Others (PPC only)
wget http://hvkls.dyndns.org/downloads/libjpeg-pnmscale_binaries-ppc.tar.gz tar -C / -xvzf libjpeg-pnmscale_binaries-ppc.tar.gz

Configuration

 * Set up a custom instance of thttpd (the webserver shipped with the LS), as described here. Advanced users might prefer this setup instead. We'll assume your server root is /mnt/share/www (LS1 style) in this example.

mkdir /mnt/share/www/photos
 * Create the directory that will hold the photos you want to share

htpasswd -c /mnt/share/www/photos/.htpasswd photos # enter a password for user "photos"
 * Protect the directory with a password (optional)


 * Copy photos into /mnt/share/www/photos/, organize them into subdirectories if you want.


 * Set up a script that generates the galleries if necessary, on a daily basis. If your directory /mnt/share/www/photos is password protected, the subdirecories will inherit the password. See "man igal" for the options passed to the program.

mkdir /etc/cron.daily 2>/dev/null echo '#! /bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DIR="/mnt/share/www/photos" for dir in $(ls -1 ${DIR}/ | tr "\n" " "); do test -d $DIR/${dir} && igal --bigy 480 -n -d ${DIR}/${dir}/ test -d $DIR/${dir} && cp ${DIR}/.htpasswd ${DIR}/${dir}/ done' > /etc/cron.daily/igalAB chmod 0755 /etc/cron.daily/igalAB


 * Optional: hourly generation

mkdir /etc/cron.hourly 2>/dev/null echo '#! /bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DIR="/mnt/share/www/photos" for dir in $(ls -1 ${DIR}/ | tr "\n" " "); do test -d $DIR/${dir} && igal --bigy 480 -n -d ${DIR}/${dir}/ test -d $DIR/${dir} && cp ${DIR}/.htpasswd ${DIR}/${dir}/ done' > /etc/cron.daily/igalAB chmod 0755 /etc/cron.hourly/igalAB

/etc/cron.daily/igalAB whenever you want.
 * If you want to create the galleries manually, run


 * Point your web browser to http://linkstation:81/photos/ and enjoy!