[SGVLUG] Recommendations for a Web Photo Gallery

[Braddock]

If you want something dirt simple, I've been happy using Good Gallery 
for the past six months for the baby pics.

http://lagbag.com/goodgallery/

Drop the index.php in a directory full of photos, and done.

-braddock


On 02/19/2013 10:44 AM, James McDuffie wrote:
> I would like some recommendations for a web photo gallery app that meets
> most of my requirements listed below:
> * Open source
> * Uses the photo files themselves to store meta data
> * Does not require a web interface to upload and arrange files
> * Reasonably mature and maintained
> * Can also do video files
> * Supports some sort of authentication
> * Ability to specify which photos are public and which are private
>
> I ask because for years I have been using Gallery 3, but I want to get
> away from the fact that once you use an application such as this, your
> metadata is sort of stuck should you want to switch to something else. I
> did make a go at exporting my captions from Gallery but got stuck trying
> to match some of the files I had imported with my archive of files. I
> really want data portability. None of the most active image gallery
> programs meet my requirements as far as I can tell.
>
> I want to be able to manage my photos as files and be able to reorganize
> them without confusing a web interface that overly relies on a database.
> I've been using digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/) to manage my files
> locally and have been using it in a way that writes all the captions and
> tags to the files themselves.
>
> So in summary I would like a web front end that does not depend on how I
> am managing my files. It should just display the files and if it does
> have an administrative interface, write that information to the files
> themselves.
>
> Any ideas? I've Googled to no end and haven't yet found something to my
> liking. I might just end up rolling my own.