Revision of Installation from Tue, 11/11/2008 - 13:30

Download the latest version of Gallery2 (2.3 at time of writing):

Webserver Configuration

• Lighttpd
  If you are using Lighttpd as your webserver, edit lighttpd.conf and add:
  $HTTP["host"] =~ "photos\.domainname\.com" {
server.document-root = "/var/websites/photos/gallery2"
accesslog.filename = "/var/websites/photos/logs/access.log"

  Restart lightty:

  svc -t /service/lighttpd
• Apache
  If you are using Apache as your webserver, edit /usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf and add:
  <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName photos.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/websites/photos/gallery2

    <Directory /var/websites/photos/gallery2>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
  ErrorLog /var/websites/photos/logs/photos-error_log
  CustomLog /var/websites/photos/logs/photos-access_log combined
</VirtualHost>

  Restart Apache:

  svc -t /service/apache

  Gallery2 configuration
  Load the Gallery2 installer at http://photos.domainname.com.
  In general, follow the instructions provided by the Gallery2 installer.
  Create the data directory:

  cd /var/websites/photos
mkdir g2data
chmod 777 g2data

  Create the database:

  /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u <username> -p create <databasename>

  Login to MySQL as an admin user:

  /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u <username> -p

  Create the user for Gallery2:

  GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, ALTER, DROP, INDEX,  CREATE
TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES
ON databasename.*
TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

  Gallery 2 Plugins

  yum install ImageMagick-devel

  The path to the ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick binaries is /usr/bin