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OpenPhoto / Installation for Ubuntu + Cherokee
OpenPhoto, a photo service for the masses
OS: Linux Ubuntu Server 10.04+
This guide instructs you on how to install OpenPhoto on Cherokee Web Server on an Ubuntu server. To have a recent version of Cherokee, I advice to add the ppa maintained with latest version. You can add it with the command below.
add-apt-repository ppa:cherokee-webserver/ppa
Prerequisites
Database and File System Options
MySql
You'll need to provide credentials for a MySql database. If the database doesn't already exist it will be created. If the user doesn't have CREATE DATABASE permissions then make sure it's already created.
AWS
If you're going to use AWS services then You'll need to be signed up for them.
Server Packages and Modules
Once you've confirmed that your cloud account is setup you can get started on your server. For that you'll need to have Cherokee, PHP and curl installed with a few modules.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install cherokee php5-fpm php5-curl php5-mcrypt php-apc build-essential libpcre3-dev
And if you are going to use MySQL install php5-mysql.
There are also a few optional but recommended packages and modules.
apt-get install php5-imagick exiftran
pecl install oauth
Installing OpenPhoto
Download and install the source code. We recommend /var/www/yourdomain.com but you can use any directory you'd like.
Using git clone
apt-get install git-core
git clone git://github.com/photo/frontend.git /var/www/yourdomain.com
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/yourdomain.com
Using tar
cd /var/www
wget https://github.com/photo/frontend/tarball/master -O openphoto.tar.gz
tar -zxvf openphoto.tar.gz
mv openphoto-frontend-* yourdomain.com
chown -R www-data:www-data yourdomain.com
Assuming that this is a development machine you can make the config writable by the user Apache runs as. Most likely www-data.
mkdir /var/www/yourdomain.com/src/userdata
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/yourdomain.com/src/userdata
Setting up Cherokee and PHP
PHP
You should also verify that your php.ini file has a few important values set correctly.
vi /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
Search for the following values and make sure they're correct.
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 16M
post_max_size = 16M
Now you're ready to restart php5-fpm to use the new parameters.
/etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart
Cherokee
Launch the administration web interface and connect to it
cherokee-admin
firefox http://localhost:9090
Note that if you're not connecting from the same machine, you'll have to use the -b[<IP>] parameter to bind cherokee-admin to an externally accessible network interface.
Go the sections "Vservers" and create a new vserver with the + button
In the "Languages" sub-section, choose "PHP" and click "Add"
Set the Document Root to /var/www/yourdomain.com/src/html and click "Next"
Enter the Vhost Name the configuration will serve and set the log configuration; click "Create"
Now, go to the rules definition and add a "File Exists" rules, invert the rule with "Not" button and set the following parameters:
- Match any file: enable
- Use I/O Cache: enable
- Only match files: disable
- If dir, check Index files: disable
Go to the tab "Handler", set a "Redirection" handler with the following parameters:
- Show: Internal
- Regular Expression:
^/([^?]*)(\?+([^?]*))*$ - Substitution:
index.php?__route__=/$1&$3
Click "Add".
Press the button "Save", and restart Cherokee.
Launching your OpenPhoto site
Now you're ready to launch your OpenPhoto site. Point your browser to your host and you'll be taken to a setup screen. You'll need your cloud account credentials to continue.
Once you complete the 3 steps your site will be up and running and you'll be redirected there. The setup screen won't show up anymore. If for any reason you want to go through the setup again you will need to delete the generated config file and refresh your browser.
rm /var/www/yourdomain.com/src/configs/generated/settings.ini
FIXME: On some systems (?), this config file is in another spot:
/var/www/yourdomain.com/src/userdata/configs/yourdomain.com.ini
ENJOY!