How to install Piwigo on Linuxmint 18.03

To install Piwigo on Linuxmint 18.03
Piwigo is an open source PHP based content management system used for creating gallery focused websites. It supports multiple media formats, integrated blogs, and custom pages. Piwigo is an ideal CMS tool for photographers, designers, filmmakers, and musicians. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of webid on linuxmint 18.03.

Prerequisites
To install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, and php7.0)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )

Php installation with required following modules

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 
apt-get update 
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0-common 
php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap  php7.0-xml php7.0-intl  php7.0-cli  php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl

Installation

Download the piwigo package by using wget command.

linuxhelp ~ #  wget https://piwigo.org/download/dlcounter.php?code=latest
--2018-08-18 03:17:37--  https://piwigo.org/download/dlcounter.php?code=latest
Resolving piwigo.org (piwigo.org)... 87.98.147.22
Connecting to piwigo.org (piwigo.org)|87.98.147.22|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7846445 (7.5M) \[application/zip\]
Saving to: ‘dlcounter.php?code=latest’

dlcounter.php?code=latest    100%\[=============================================>\]   7.48M  1.12MB/s    in 7.0s    

2018-08-18 03:17:45 (1.06 MB/s) - ‘dlcounter.php?code=latest’ saved \[7846445/7846445\]

The downloaded package is a zip file, so we need to unzip the package now.

linuxhelp ~ # unzip dlcounter.php?code=latest Archive:  dlcounter.php?code=latest
   creating: piwigo/
  inflating: piwigo/.gitignore       
   creating: piwigo/\_data/
 extracting: piwigo/\_data/dummy.txt  
.
.
.
inflating: piwigo/tools/ws.htm     
  inflating: piwigo/upgrade.php      
  inflating: piwigo/upgrade\_feed.php  
   creating: piwigo/upload/
  inflating: piwigo/ws.php  

Change the ownership and permission for piwigo directory

linuxhelp ~ # ls dlcounter.php?code=latest  piwigo
linuxhelp ~ # chown -R www-data:www-data piwigo/
linuxhelp ~ # chmod -R 775 piwigo/

Move the webid directory into the /html location.

linuxhelp ~ # mv piwigo/ /var/www/html/

Create a new virtualhost configuration to accessing the piwigo application

linuxhelp ~ # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim piwigo.conf
 ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/piwigo/
 AllowOverride All
allow from all 

Enable the site access.

linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite web.conf 
Enabling site web.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

Entry to the host file

linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
  

Then we need to restart the apache2 service

linuxhelp sites-available # systemctl restart apache2.service

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL of http://local IP (or) domain name

Fill the database details.

Fill the Admin details.

Now the installation setup is complete to access Piwigo Photo gallery

You can see the Piwigo photo gallery as shown here

You can see the Admin dashboard of Piwigo as follows

with this, the method to install Piwigo on Linux mint 18.03 comes to an end.