Coppermine Photo Gallery is an open source and easy to use photo gallery software written in PHP, which allows you to publish and manage collection of pictures, create personal photo albums, group albums by categories, send e-cards, allow users to upload pictures to albums via web browser, add comments to pictures and more. Coppermine is one of the oldest and most popular web picture gallery scripts.
In this tutorial we will show you how to install Coppermine Photo Gallery on a CentOS Virtual Server in less than 10 minutes.
In order to be able to install and use Coppermine Gallery, there are certain requirements that need to be met, such as:
- PHP with GD graphics library enabled. Alternatively, you can install and use ImageMagick. Also, ‘register_globals’ setting should be turned off in php.ini
- Apache Web Server
- MySQL installed on your Linux Virtual Server.
This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your Coppermine virtual server, so download the latest stable version of Coppermine Photo Gallery at http://coppermine-gallery.net to the ‘/opt’ directory on the server. Then, extract it and move the Coppermine files and directories to the ‘/var/www/html/coppermine’ directory. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of Coppermine Photo Gallery is 1.5.36 .
cd /opt/ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/coppermine/Coppermine/1.5.x/cpg1.5.36.zip unzip -d /var/www/html/ cpg1.5.36.zip mv /var/www/html/cpg15x /var/www/html/coppermine register_globals should be turned off in php.ini
Coppermine needs write access to ‘albums’ and ‘include’ directories within the ‘/var/www/html/coppermine’ directory. This can easily be accomplished by running the following command:
chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/coppermine
Create a new MySQL database for Coppermine on your server (do not forget to change ‘your-password’ and use strong password for the ‘coppermine’ MySQL user):
mysql -u root -p mysql> CREATE DATABASE copperminedb; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON copperminedb.* TO 'coppermine'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-password' WITH GRANT OPTION; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> exit
Locate the php configuration file using the following command:
#php -i | grep php.ini Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php.ini
Edit the ‘php.ini’ configuration file and make sure ‘register_globals’ is set to ‘Off’:
register_globals = off
Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. Edit the Apache configuration file:
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
and add the following lines:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/html/coppermine/ ServerName your-domain.com ServerAlias www.your-domain.com <Directory /var/www/html/coppermine/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common </VirtualHost>
Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect using the following command:
service apache2 restart
Open http://your-domain.com/install.php in your favorite web browser and follow the easy instructions, inserting the necessary information as requested: check if permissions on certain directories are properly set, select ‘GD2’ (or ‘ImageMagick’ if you have ImageMagick package installed on your server), enter your MySQL username and password and finally create a Coppermine administration account.
That is it. The Coppermine Photo Gallery is now properly configured and ready to use. Log in to the administrator back-end and start uploading your pictures and publish photo albums.
Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Linux Virtual Server Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install Coppermine Photo Gallery for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.
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