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Hello,
I recently installed Piwigo to apache server on raspberry pi to try it out and evaluate if I should incorporate it into NAS for photo management. I am very new to all of this.
I just wanted to use piwigo on LAN and not outside my home network at first. I can navigate to piwigo at 192.168.1.xxx/piwigo on both my pc browser and on safari on my iphone while on LAN.
I downloaded the piwigo iOS app and when I try to connect I receive the error: Connection Error; Could not connect to the server;
In the top input box I entered 192.168.1.xxx/piwigo, where it prefills with 'example.com'.
Please let me know if you see an obvious error or if you could point me in the right direction. I may have problems with permissions. I am confused bc I can navigate to piwigo on the web in both pc browser and iphone on LAN. I did not set up ssl.
Thank you for your time.
Piwigo version: 2.10.2
PHP version: 2:7.3+69
MySQL version: 5.8+1.0.5
Piwigo URL: http://192.168.1.xxx/piwigo
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Hi,
I experienced the very same issue on my iPad today.
I'm running Piwigo on a local server (let's say, it has the hostname SRV) as a docker container. As I have no other services sitting on the default port 80, I configured Piwigo to port 80. Like you, I do not use SSL.
So, I usually can access it typing
http://srv
in the browser.
The Piwigo app on my iPad will not connect with the above setting. Coincidentally, I've found out that
http://srv:80 works instead.
HTH,
Daniel
Last edited by dma (2020-05-17 21:57:36)
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Thank you for your reply.
I will look into this further. I think by default Apache is using port 80.
Do you use piwigo for your primary photo management on your NAS?
I had previously used Nextcloud photos but it seemed slow and I thought
Piwigo would be a better solution.
Thanks again.
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> I think by default Apache is using port 80.
This is true for sure, but the iOS Piwigo app seems to ignore this. Therefore the setting must be done explicitely as part of the URL.
> Do you use piwigo for your primary photo management on your NAS?
Yes, after years of messing around and copying my photo lib back and forth across all the devices existing in my household, I started investigating whether there is something which would suit my needs better (searching for tags, providing a central database to all my family members regardless of the device they use, quick delivery of the photos etc.).
For some reason, it was not easy for me to "find" Piwigo... I never heard of it before I started my investigation.
> I had previously used Nextcloud photos but it seemed slow and I thought Piwigo would be a better solution.
Yes, I'm using NC in my network, too. This is mainly to manage all my paper work (which is actually no paper in 99% of time) and all my ebook library. I really love it (especially the full text search abilities based on Elastic Search). But, when it comes to manage your photos, you can simply forget it. It is ways to slow and lacking of meta data search...
Daniel
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Thanks for your response. This is helpful.
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Same story. I recently installed Piwigo and had a hard time getting into my library from my iOS device. The fact that you need to enter the port number should be documented more clearly or corrected. When entering a web location and entering http or https should default to port 80 or 443 respectively.
I am very happy with the performance of Piwigo so far.
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