pictshare/rtfm/INSTALL.md

Install guide

PictShare is written to be run on a linux server with PHP 7 and nginx. We tried to support Windows for some time but ever since we started integrating ffmpeg for MP4 hosting we ditched Windows.

• Make sure you have PHP7 GD libraries installed: apt-get install php-gd
• Unpack the PictShare zip
• Rename /inc/example.config.inc.php to /inc/config.inc.php
• chmod +x bin/ffmpeg if you want to be able to use mp4 uploads
• The provided ffmpeg binary (bin/ffmpeg) is from here and it's a 64bit linux executable. If you need a different one, load yours and overwrite the one provided or if you have ffmpeg installed on the server you can use the config var FFMPEG_BINARY to tell PictShare where to look for the binary
• (optional) You can and should put a nginx proxy before the Apache server. That thing is just insanely fast with static content like images.
• (optional) To secure your traffic I'd highly recommend getting an SSL Cert for your server if you don't already have one.

Upgrading

• Just re-download the PictShare zip file and extract and overwrite existing pictshare files. Uploads and config won't be affected.
• Check if your /inc/config.inc.php file has all settings required by the /inc/example.config.inc.php since new options might get added in new versions

# to be run from the directory where your pictshare directory sits in
git clone https://github.com/chrisiaut/pictshare.git temp
cp -r temp/* pictshare/.
rm -rf temp

Nginx configuration

This is a simple config file that should make PictShare work on nginx

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name your.awesome.domain.name;

        root /var/www/pictshare; # or where ever you put it
        index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?url=$request_uri;
    }

    location ~ \.php {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock; #may be slightly different depending on your php version
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    location ~ /(data|tmp|bin|content-controllers|inc|interfaces|storage-controllers|templates|tools) {
       deny all;
       return 404;
    }

}