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by andre

[edit] Photo Gallery with igal

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

[edit] Installation

[edit] 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/

[edit] 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

[edit] Others (PPC only)

wget http://hvkls.dyndns.org/downloads/libjpeg-pnmscale_binaries-ppc.tar.gz
tar -C / -xvzf libjpeg-pnmscale_binaries-ppc.tar.gz

[edit] 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.

• Create the directory that will hold the photos you want to share

mkdir /mnt/share/www/photos

• Protect the directory with a password (optional)

htpasswd -c /mnt/share/www/photos/.htpasswd photos # enter a password for user "photos"

• 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

• If you want to create the galleries manually, run

/etc/cron.daily/igalAB

whenever you want.

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