The digital photos we have of our friends, family, and past experiences are priceless, and it would be horrible to lose them all in a hard drive failure or other unforeseen circumstances. So, Cloud-hosted image storage services (Opens in a new tab) like Google Images (Opens in a new tab) It has become very popular, but it can also be very expensive when you have many photos to store.
The alternative is to store your photos on a file Website hosting (Opens in a new tab) Utilization open source (Opens in a new tab) Image management software Piwigo (Opens in a new tab). In this guide, we will show you how to set up Piwigo on this popular web host Hostinger (Opens in a new tab).
Step 1: Launch Hostinger Auto Installer for Piwigo
Hostinger has an automatic installer for Piwigo, which makes installing the software particularly easy. From the menu on the left in the Hostinger admin panel, choose Website, then Auto-Install. Select Other, then Piwigo from the dropdown box. Click Select, and the wizard will start.
On the first page, set your Piwigo site name and enter your email address, as well as a login username and password.
By clicking on Advanced, you can decide to install Piwigo in a subdirectory instead of the root of your website. You can also specify whether to create a new MySQL database for Piwigo, or use an existing one.
Step 2: Choose your Piwigo version and update schedule
Click Next to get to the last step of the installation wizard. Here, you can decide to install an older version of Piwigo and turn off automatic software updates. We recommend that you leave these settings as default. Click Install to complete the wizard.
Step 3: Log in to your new Piwigo website
Piwigo is now installed. You will find the correct URL under Installed apps on the Hostinger Auto Installer page. Go to this URL, enter the administrator username and password you created earlier, and click Login.
Step 4: Create a photo album
Start by creating your first photo album. Click Create first album. On the next page, name your album, and click Create.
Optionally, you can now hover over the created album and click Edit to set some advanced options. You can set the album description, choose the default photo sort order, and set the photo album to private or public.
Step 5: Add photos to your album
Click on an album and select Add photos. Select all the photos you want to upload from your computer, then click Open. Your choices will be added to an onscreen list. Finally, choose Start Upload to add the photos to your album.
There are several other ways to add photos to your albums in Piwigo. For example, under the Applications tab, you can find links to programs that you can use to upload photos. Notably, you can use a Piwigo for AndroidDr (Opens in a new tab) And Piwigo for iOS (Opens in a new tab) Apps to automatically upload photos from your mobile devices.
Step 5: Set the Piwigo theme
It’s easy to change the look and feel of your photo galleries using Piwigo’s theme system. Choose Themes from the Configuration menu and select Add New Theme. Here you will find about 35 themes to choose from.
Select Install on the theme you want, and it will be installed. To use the new theme, click Installed themes and choose both Activate and Set as default in the theme you want to use.
Step 6: Set general options for your photo galleries
One of the advantages of running your own photo management software is that you can choose exactly how it works. Piwigo has a wealth of options in its configuration menu. Here, you can set up the header, and allow users to register to view, vote, and comment on your photos.
You can set your photos to be automatically available in multiple sizes, and add a watermark to all photos. Every option, such as slideshows, calendars, photo downloads, and lists, can be modified to your liking.
If that wasn’t enough, there are over 100 plugins you can install on your Piwigo site, available directly in the Piwigo admin interface. These plugins can add additional functionality to your photo galleries, from video players to e-commerce shopping carts, so you can sell your photos to visitors.
summary
Piwigo is an open source image management option that offers an interesting alternative to mainstream cloud image storage. In this guide, we’ve shown you how to set it up on Hostinger.
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