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What LAMP-Based Gallery Software Would You Use?

Posted by Cliff on from the show-off-your-photography-skills dept.

Zanguinar asks: "I've been a Gallery user for years now. I have a ton of photos, organized by albums, mainly just for use by my family and close friends. However, some of my friends have begun using Flickr. I can't say I blame them, since it's got a great design, and I love the tagging concept. However, I'm not eager to store my photos on somebody else's server, and don't want to pay for the privilege, especially since I already run my own web server. The problem is, I can't find any Flickr-like software to run on my home LAMP setup. All I want is to be able to tag my photos like Flickr and be able to display them by tag, tag intersection, date, and other such fields. Is there an OSS that is doing this?"

2 of 62 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Zenphoto by Tadu · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, it doesn't even create navigational links, and the viagra comment spam is rather telling about the "secure" front...

  2. Re:Another Question along the same lines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You're doing something wrong if Gallery2 can't handle that. I admin a sports photography site using G2 with 130,000+ pictures and it's sharp and responsive, even with 50+ concurrent users.

    There's a little trick with G1 to keep it quick, force caching. By default it scans the whole gallery tree every time someone visits the front page, but if you throw in an hourly cron job (or longer, depending on frequency of updates) to do something like this:
    wget -O /var/www/html/gallery/cache.html.new http://gallery.example.com/gallery?gallery_nocache =yes; mv /var/www/html/gallery/cache.html.new /var/www/html/gallery/cache.html; chmod a+rx /var/www/html/gallery/cache.html .. you'll find it remains sharp and responsive all the time.