Zenphoto is free and open-source standalone content management system (CMS) for creating gallery focused websites. Zenphoto is feature rich PHP based application and it has everything you need to manage your own photo galleries. In this blog tutorial we will install Zenphoto on CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, MariaDB and PHP
To be eligible to run Zenphoto, you need to have the following requirements installed on your server:
– A web server – Apache or Nginx
– PHP version 5.2 or newer with GD and imagick extensions.
– MySQL/MariaDB database version 5 or newer.
Log in to your CentOS VPS via SSH as user root
ssh root@IP
and make sure that all packages are up to date by executing the following command
yum -y update
Run the following command to install MariaDB database server
yum install mariadb mariadb-server
Start the MariaDB database server and enable it to start at the boot time
systemctl start mariadb systemctl enable mariadb
Run the ‘mysql_secure_installation’ script to secure the database server and set your MariaDB root password
Log in to the MariaDB server using the ‘root’ user and create new database end user.
mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE zenphoto; CREATE USER 'zenphotouser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `zenphoot`.* TO 'zenphotouser'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Don’t forget to replace ‘PASSWORD’ with a strong password.
Next, we will install Apache web server
yum install httpd
Start the Apache web server and add it to automatically start on the system start-up
systemctl start httpd systemctl enable httpd
Now we need to install PHP among with few PHP modules
yum install php php-gd php-common
Install ImageMagic package and ImageMagic PHP extension
yum install ImageMagick pecl install imagick echo "extension=imagick.so" > /etc/php.d/imagick.ini
Once all requirements are installed. download the latest stable release of Zenphoto from their official website.
wget https://github.com/zenphoto/zenphoto/archive/zenphoto-1.4.9.zip
Unpack the downloaded zip archive to the document root directory on your server
unzip enphoto-1.4.9.zip -d /var/www/html/
If you are not sure where is your document root directory you can use the following command to find out
grep -i '^documentroot' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
Change the current working directory and rename the unpacked Zenphoto directory
cd /var/www/html/ mv zenphoto-zenphoto-1.4.9/ zenphoto
Change the ownership of the directory
chown -R apache:apache zenphoto
Next, create Apache virtual host for your domain. Create ‘/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf’ directory with the following content
vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf IncludeOptional vhosts.d/*.conf
and create the virtual host
vim /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/yourdomain.com.conf <VirtualHost YOUR_SERVER_IP:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/zenphoto/" ServerName yourdomain.com ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-error_log" CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-access_log" combined <Directory "/var/www/html/zenphoto/"> DirectoryIndex index.html index.php Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost>
Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect.
systemctl restart httpd
Open your favorite web browser and navigate to your Zenphoto gallery at http://yourdomain.com . It will automatically run the installation script and will prompt you to enter the MySQL information of the database we created in this tutorial.
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