Photo Gallery with igal - online image gallery generator
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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!
Installation
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/igal chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/igal mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1 cp igal.1 /usr/local/man/man1/ cp 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
If you want to conserve disk space, as you only need pnmscale from netpbm, proceed like in "Others" (PPC only) instead, afterwards run "apt-get install libjpeg-progs".
Others (PPC only)
wget http://hvkls.dyndns.org/downloads/libjpeg-binaries-ppc.tar.gz tar -C / -xvzf libjpeg-binaries-ppc.tar.gz
Configuration
- Set up a custom instance of thttpd (the webserver shipping with the LS), as described in here. Advanced users might prefer to use SSL instead. We'll assume your server root is /mnt/share/www (LS1 style) in this example.
- Create the shared photos directory
mkdir /mnt/share/www/photos
- Protect the directory with a password (optional)
thtpasswd -c /mnt/share/www/photos/.htpasswd photos # enter a password when prompted
- 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/photos is password protected, the subdirecories will inherit the password. See "man igal" for the options passed to the program.
echo '#! /bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DIR="/mnt/share/www/photos"
for dir in $(/bin/ls -1 ${DIR}/ | /usr/bin/tr "\n" " "); do
test -d $DIR/${dir} && /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/local/bin/igal --bigy 480 -n -w 5 -d ${DIR}/${dir}/
test -d $DIR/${dir} && cp ${DIR}/.htpasswd ${DIR}/${dir}/
done' > /etc/cron.daily/igalAB
chmod 0755 /etc/cron.daily/igalAB
- If you want to create the galleries manually, run
/etc/cron.daily/igalAB
whenever you want.
- Point you web browser to http://linkstation:81/photos/ and enjoy!

