Coppermine

Getting Started

Coppermine is a powerful PHP based web photo gallery. It utilizies GD or ImageMagick and uses mysql as a backend.

Coppermine requires the following:

• Webserver (we'll assume you are using Apache)
• Apache_Modules_mod_php (>=4.1.0)
• dev-lang/PHP (5+ needs to be compiled with mysql and gd USE flags)
• MySQL (>=3.23.23)
• media-libs/gd (default) or media-gfx/imagemagick

Install the mysql backend

# emerge -a mysql

Add the following to unmask the coppermine package.

www-apps/coppermine ~x86 

Install coppermine package and dependencies.

# emerge -a coppermine
# USE="jpg png" emerge -a gd
# OR
# USE="jpeg tiff png" emerge -a imagemagick

MySQL Configuration

Create a user for the Coppermine gallery

# mysql -u root -p
# mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'copper'@'localhost'
#     -> IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
# mysql> CREATE DATABASE COPPERMINE;

Coppermine Configuration

Point your web browser to:

# http://YOUR-SERVER/coppermine/install.php

Fill in the appropriate fields and you should be all set. Enjoy!

See Also

• MySQL
• Apache
• Coppermine Homepage
• Coppermine Demo
• Coppermine FAQ