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please recommend a simple selfhosted photo gallery (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 day ago by hexagonwin@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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hi. i'm looking for an extremely simple selfhosted photo gallery software. i have photos from my laptop, a camera, and my phone. they are all rsync'ed onto my server. so on the server I have ~/Pictures/Laptop ~/Pictures/Camera ~/Pictures/Phone filled with JPEG/PNG/HEICs and no subdirectories.

i want to view photos from all three directories on a single timeline/feed, from the web (and if possible, via a mobile app). currently I VNC onto the server to run XnView and check each directory and this is a terrible user experience especially on a phone.

i don't want to run a separate database or anything complex, so things like Immich or Photoprism are not an option. would be nice to be able to assign a tag to some images ("work", "computer", ...) but it's not a necessity. and i don't need the ability to edit/remove images from the gallery.

i've considered rolling my own solution but thought there might be something already available.

thanks!

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Immich isn't complex, and I don't think it requires a separate database.

Edit: just checked and technically it does, but if you use the docker compose then it deploys it automatically and you don't have to think about it at all.

Edit2: if you really want something dead simple, yeah you could trivially write a tiny script to list and thumbnail images. I'm sure there are apache plugins for exactly this.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

it's not that the deployment process looks hard. it's an extremely complex piece of software, something that only provides "container" (read: full linux image) method for deployment because it's too complex to install manually. if something ever goes wrong inside that container, i won't be able to fix it.