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 all PHP7 libraries installed (note on some systems the packages are not called php7-* but just php-* also on some systems php7-mbstring is called php7-mb):
apt-get install php7-exif php7-gd php7-json php7-openssl php7-fileinfo php7-mbstring php7-mcrypt
- 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 - Since default upload sizes will be 2M in PHP you should edit your php.ini and change
upload_max_filesize
andpost_max_size
to a larger value - (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.
- 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
Documentation of config settings here
This is a simple config file that should make PictShare work on nginx
server {
listen 80;
server_name your.awesome.domain.name;
client_max_body_size 50M; # Set the max file upload size. This needs to be equal or larger than the size you specified in your php.ini
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;
}
}