How to install Lychee on Ubuntu 16.04

To install Lychee on Ubuntu 16.04

Lychee is a free and open source photo management application which can be used for uploading, managing and sharing photos. Lychee is very secure as the photos uploaded in it are deemed to be secure. Lychee runs on a server and installing it takes only a few minutes. The installation of Lychee on Ubuntu 16.04 is covered in this article.

Pre-requirements

Install lamp (apache, php, mariadb-server)

In mariadb (create database, user and give privilages to user)

For php

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

apt-get update

modules(apt-get install php5.6 php5.6-mbstring php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-mysql php5.6-xml php5.6-gd php5.6-imap php5.6-ldap php5.6-odbc php-pear php5.6-xmlrpc php-xml-parser)

Installing Lychee

Before you begin the installation process, make sure you enter into your Apache document root location by making use of the following command.

root@linuxhelp12:~# cd /var/www/html/

And then, you need to download a stable and latest lychee package for the installation purpose.

root@linuxhelp12:/var/www/html# git clone https://github.com/electerious/Lychee.git
Cloning into ' Lychee' ...
remote: Counting objects: 10445, done.
remote: Total 10445 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 10445
Receiving objects: 100% (10445/10445), 5.73 MiB | 387.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (7137/7137), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

Once it is done, you need to change the ownership and permission for lychee directory which you have downloaded.

root@linuxhelp12:/var/www/html# chown &ndash R www-data:www-data Lychee/
root@linuxhelp12:/var/www/html# chmod -R 775 Lychee/

Later, you need to create a VirtualHost for Lychee, and for that, you need to open a new .conf file as follows.

root@linuxhelp12:/var/www/html# vim /etc /apache2/sites-available/lychee.conf

Once it is done, you shall add the followuing lines in it.

< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerAdmin admin@linuxhelp12.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Lychee/
ServerName linuxhelp12.com
ServerAlias www.linuxhelp12.com
< Directory /var/www/html/Lychee/> 
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/linuxhelp12.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/linuxhelp12.com-access_log common
< /VirtualHost> 

After configuring the VirtualHost, you need to make an entry in hosts file. Open the hosts file by running the following.

root@linuxhelp12:/var/www/html# vim /etc/hosts

And in that file, you need to add the following line.

< ip addr>  yourdomain

Later, you need to enable the new .conf file as follows.

root@linuxhelp12:/var/www/html# a2ensite lychee.conf
Enabling site lychee.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
service apache2 reload

Once it is all done, you need to restart the Apache service by making use of the following command.

root@linuxhelp12:/var/www/html# systemctl restart apache2

You should open your browser now and navigate to your domain, the installation wizard of Lychee appears on your screen. You shall enter the necessary database details and click Connect.

In the next page, you need to enter the credentials and click login.

Once you login, you will be taken to the dashboard of Lychee.

With this, the installation of Lychee comes to an end.