gallery

A simple web.py based picture gallery operating solely on the file structure of your gallery

Quick Setup

• Checkout the repo

• Get the web.py, pythonmagick, and pyexiv2 (min version 0.3.2) packages. E.g., on ubuntu:

  sudo apt-get install python-webpy python-pythonmagick python-pyexiv2
  

• Link your images to static/galleries

  ln -s {your directory} static/galleries
  

• Create or link a thumbnail directory

  mkdir static/thumbs
  

• Run

  python code.py
  

  OR (on Linux)

  ./code.py
  

Special Notes and Known Issues

Image Directory Structure and Filenames

App runs off a simple, but specific directory structure underneath static/galleries. Images are expected in in the collection subdirectories.

|-  gallery-1-name
    |-  collection-1-name
    |-  collection-2-name
    |-  collection-3-name
    |-  ...
|-  gallery-2-name
    |-  collection-1-name
    |-  ...
|-  ...

Directory and filenames cannot have spaces or other special characters in them. There is no urlencoding or the like at this time.

IMAGE_PATHS

You can set IMAGE_PATHS to serve your images through a web server, such as Apache. For example, consider setting up your images at http://localhost/gallery-pics/galleries and thumbnails at http://localhost/gallery-pics/thumbs. On a default Ubuntu apache2 install, you would set IMAGE_PATHS to these values:

'disk_root': '/var/www/gallery-pics',
'http_root': 'http://localhost/gallery-pics',
'galleries': 'galleries',
'thumbs': 'thumbs'

With these settings, put your source images in /var/www/gallery-pics/galleries and create a thumbnail directory at /var/www/gallery-pics/thumbs.