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You can test piwigo without installing -> http://piwigo.com/

Hi j3t,

Generaly, we provide Piwigo support mainly with Apache because it's the Web server system the most widespread and, most importantly, used by virtually all web hosts in the world.
However, in the case of a self-hosting (as you wish), this implies, for you, a minimum of technical knowledge on the installation, configuration and monitoring of a Web server on the system that has been chosen. You understand that it will be difficult to us to ensure such a support in addition to Piwigo ;-)

We will still try to help. Thank you for answering the following questions to clarify the situation:

Which system do you want to run Piwigo? Apache? IIS?

You talk of pre-requisite but what are you talking about? Php? MySql? The Web server configuration?

Your Web server with PHP and MySql is it fully operational? Is a php page well displayed? Is your database reachable from a web page hosted on your server ?

The easiest way is to use Apache as there is a reliable solution even under Windows (see WampServer, EasyPHP, XAMPP ...). If you want to run Piwigo with IIS, it can work but with a bit more difficulty with the settings. And you'll have to install the PHP support and, of course, a MySql database because Piwigo does not yet support Microsoft databases.

j3t wrote:

Let's say I run a data center and I want to start host piwigo on my systems. What documentation would I use to make sure I have a system properly configured in order to run Piwigio

There are a lot of tutorials and "howto" articles ont the Web. Let's take a look on these first results i found from a google search with "Linux how to build a web server" key words:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2266701_build-l … erver.html
http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2007/06/05 … n_server/1
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxT … onfig.html

And there are much more :-)

j3t wrote:

That is what I am looking for. As opposed to "well my DBs are happy, PHP is happy but I'm still getting the blank white screen so lets try another port as that didn't connect"

If you get a white page, it could be normal. Have you created and submitted a sample index.php file in the www root folder of your Apache site? For testing only, this file could contain the following lines:
<? php
php_info ();
?>

If all works fine, this URL "http://localhost/index.php" in your web browser will show the actual php configuration report.

Then, refere yourself to tutorials (example given above) to
- Create your dedicated Piwigo web folder (something like http://localhost/piwigo/),
- Create a new MySql database (by using phpmyadmin script that can be installed automatically)
- Put the netinstall.php file in your Piwigo home directory or uncompress manually the lastest Piwigo zip file
- Perform Piwigo installation by using the URL http://localhost/piwigo/netinstall.php (if netinstall is used) or http://localhost/piwigo/index.php (if zip file is used).


In my case, I use Piwigo on external web hosts (3 galleries) but I also have a number of galeries (for testing) running on my computer. But I use Windows Vista (with WampServer) and I only know little about Linux. I can only guide you globally.

I am running into this exact problem the OP had.  I followed this guide http(colon)www.woodel.com to setup my own personal Debian server, ran "apt-get install piwigo" as it is a package provided in Debian.  Now what?  I already have my photos in a shared directory on my server, but how can I link them to Piwigo without re-uploading them? 

I agree, a "homebrew" style walkthrough would be excellent.

- spillin