Piwigo Howto (1)

This howto is based on the following documentation:

Manual Installation Guide [EN] @ Piwigo

Installation

[Server Shell]: Define the environment

project='piwigo'
base_path="<HTDOCS>/${project}"

[Server Shell]: Make the directory

mkdir --parents "${base_path}"

[Server Shell]: Clone the repository and switch to the current branch

NOTE:

Find the current branch on GitHub.

cd "${base_path}"

git clone 'https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo.git' '.'

git checkout '14.x'

Update

[Server Shell]: Define the environment

project='piwigo'
base_path="<HTDOCS>/${project}"

[Server Shell]: Pull from the repository

cd "${base_path}"

git pull

[Client Browser]: Open the URL https://www.raysoft.loc/piwigo/upgrade.php and follow the instructions

Upgrade

[Server Shell]: Define the environment

project='piwigo'
base_path="<HTDOCS>/${project}"

[Server Shell]: Pull from the repository and switch to the current branch

NOTE:

Find the current branch on GitHub.

cd "${base_path}"

git pull

git checkout '14.x'

[Client Browser]: Open the URL https://www.raysoft.loc/piwigo/upgrade.php and follow the instructions

Configuration

MySQL

[Server Shell]: Create a new database and grant privileges to users

mysql --user='root' --password --batch <<EOS
  CREATE DATABASE piwigo;

  GRANT index, create, select, insert, update, delete, drop, alter,
        lock tables 
  ON piwigo.* TO 'piwigo'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '**********';

  GRANT select, lock tables 
  ON piwigo.* TO 'backup'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '**********';
   
  FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EOS

Piwigo

[Client Browser]: Open the URL https://www.raysoft.loc/piwigo/ and follow the instructions