Lychee

#lang-php #web #photo-management 

Lychee is a open source photo-management software written in PHP and distributed under the MIT license. It allows you to easily upload, sort and manage your photos, all while presenting those with a beautiful web interface.

Note

For this guide you should be familiar with the basic concepts of

Prerequisites

We’re using PHP in the stable version 7.4:

[isabell@stardust ~]$ uberspace tools version show php
Using 'PHP' version: '7.4'
[isabell@stardust ~]$

You’ll need your MySQL credentials. Get them with my_print_defaults:

[isabell@stardust ~]$ my_print_defaults client
--default-character-set=utf8mb4
--user=isabell
--password=MySuperSecretPassword
[isabell@stardust ~]$

Also, the domain you want to use for Lychee must be set up as well:

[isabell@stardust ~]$ uberspace web domain list
isabell.uber.space
[isabell@stardust ~]$

Installation

Since version 4.0, Lychee requires the web server to actually point to the public subfolder instead of the main Lychee folder. Therefore, we are going to put the Lychee base folder into the parent folder of the default DocumentRoot, i.e. /var/www/virtual/$USER.

Clone the Lychee code from GitHub:

[isabell@stardust ~]$ cd /var/www/virtual/$USER
[isabell@stardust isabell]$ git clone https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee Lychee
Cloning into '/var/www/virtual/isabell/Lychee'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 6469 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 6464
Receiving objects: 100% (6469/6469), 28.55 MiB | 13.36 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4511/4511), done.
[isabell@stardust isabell]$

Next update the Composer repository:

[isabell@stardust isabell]$ Lychee/composer.phar update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Package operations: 134 installs, 7 updates, 0 removals
...
[isabell@stardust isabell]$

After this, the required dependencies need to be installed:

[isabell@stardust isabell]$ Lychee/composer.phar install --no-dev
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies from lock file
Package operations: 0 installs, 0 updates, 52 removals
...
[isabell@stardust isabell]$

Finally, setup a symbolic link for the public folder within the html folder or in the current folder if you use a custom subdomain:

[isabell@stardust isabell]$ ln -s Lychee/public html/Lychee

Now point your browser to your Lychee URL and follow the instructions.

You will need to enter the following information:

  • your MySQL hostname, username and password: the hostname is localhost and you should know your MySQL credentials by now. If you don’t, start reading again at the top.

  • your Lychee database name: we suggest you use an additional database. For example: isabell_lychee. Enter that, you can leave the prefix field empty.

For the last step you have to enter the username/password you want to use for the Lychee user.

Updates

You can regularly check their GitHub’s Atom Feed for any new Lychee releases.

If a new version is available, cd to your Lychee folder and do a simple git pull origin master:

[isabell@stardust ~]$ cd /var/www/virtual/$USER/Lychee
[isabell@stardust Lychee]$ git pull origin master
Already up to date.
[isabell@stardust Lychee]$

Or you use the automatic update function available in the web interface.

Tested with Lychee 4.0.9, Uberspace 7.7.2.0

Written by: TheForcer <https://github.com/TheForcer>