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A simple, easy way to turn a photo album into a webgallery

Image details

Pulls: 8.4M
Architecture: amd64, arm/v7, arm64/v8
Image size: 71 MB
User: linuxserver
Created: Oct 13, 2015
Updated: 3 years ago
Status: active

Configuration

Type
Container
Platform
linux
Image
linuxserver/photoshow:latest
Ports
80/tcp
Volumes
/Pictures : /portainer/Pictures/Thumbs : /portainer/Files/AppData/Photoshow/Thumbs/config : /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/PhotoShow
Env vars
PUID=1000PGID=100
Restart
unless-stopped

Template by mikestraney

Standalone Install

Select an install method, to see config/commands for deploying PhotoShow

Installation method

Install on Portainer

Import all app templates into your Portainer instance, for easy 1-click deploys

  1. Ensure both Docker and Portainer are installed, and up-to-date
  2. Log into your Portainer web UI
  3. Under Settings → App Templates, paste the below URL
  4. Head to Home → App Templates, and the list of apps will show up
  5. Select PhotoShow, fill in any config options, and hit Deploy

Template Import URL

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lissy93/portainer-templates/main/templates.json
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More install options in our documentation.


linuxserver.io
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The LinuxServer.io team brings you another container release featuring:
  • regular and timely application updates
  • easy user mappings (PGID, PUID)
  • custom base image with s6 overlay
  • weekly base OS updates with common layers across the entire LinuxServer.io ecosystem to minimise space usage, down time and bandwidth
  • regular security updates

Find us at:
  • Blog - all the things you can do with our containers including How-To guides, opinions and much more!
  • Discord - realtime support / chat with the community and the team.
  • Discourse - post on our community forum.
  • Fleet - an online web interface which displays all of our maintained images.
  • GitHub - view the source for all of our repositories.
  • Open Collective - please consider helping us by either donating or contributing to our budget

DEPRECATION NOTICE

This image is deprecated. We will not offer support for this image and it will not be updated.

linuxserver/photoshow

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Photoshow is gallery software at its easiest, it doesn't even require a database.
photoshow

Supported Architectures

We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.
Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/photoshow:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.
The architectures supported by this image are:
ArchitectureAvailableTag
x86-64amd64-\
arm64arm64v8-\
armhfarm32v7-\

Application Setup

On first run create an admin account, any folder and its subfolders that you map to /Pictures will be presented as a webgallery. Config settings are persistent and stored as a subfolder of the /Thumbs mapping.

Usage

Here are some example snippets to help you get started creating a container.

docker-compose (recommended, click here for more info)

---
version: "2.1"
services:
  photoshow:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/photoshow:latest
    container_name: photoshow
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - <path to data>:/config
      - <path to pictures>:/Pictures:ro
      - <path to store thumbs>:/Thumbs
    ports:
      - 80:80
    restart: unless-stopped

docker cli (click here for more info)

docker run -d \
  --name=photoshow \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Europe/London \
  -p 80:80 \
  -v <path to data>:/config \
  -v <path to pictures>:/Pictures:ro \
  -v <path to store thumbs>:/Thumbs \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/photoshow:latest

Parameters

Container images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.
ParameterFunction
-p 80WebUI
-e PUID=1000for UserID - see below for explanation
-e PGID=1000for GroupID - see below for explanation
-e TZ=Europe/LondonSpecify a timezone to use EG Europe/London.
-v /configStores config and logs for nginx base.
-v /Pictures:roYour local folder of photos you wish to share.
-v /ThumbsLocal folder to store thumbnails of your images.

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.
As an example:
-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpassword

Will set the environment variable PASSWORD based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretpassword file.

Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags) permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.
Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.
In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:
$ id username
  uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Docker Mods

Docker Mods Docker Universal Mods
We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

Support Info

  • Shell access whilst the container is running: docker exec -it photoshow /bin/bash
  • To monitor the logs of the container in realtime: docker logs -f photoshow
  • container version number
docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' photoshow
  • image version number
docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/photoshow:latest

Updating Info

Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app inside. With some exceptions (ie. nextcloud, plex), we do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Please consult the Application Setup section above to see if it is recommended for the image.
Below are the instructions for updating containers:

Via Docker Compose

  • Update all images: docker-compose pull
or update a single image: docker-compose pull photoshow
  • Let compose update all containers as necessary: docker-compose up -d
or update a single container: docker-compose up -d photoshow
  • You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Via Docker Run

  • Update the image: docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/photoshow:latest
  • Stop the running container: docker stop photoshow
  • Delete the container: docker rm photoshow
  • Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your /config folder and settings will be preserved)
  • You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Via Watchtower auto-updater (only use if you don't remember the original parameters)

  • Pull the latest image at its tag and replace it with the same env variables in one run:

```bash docker run --rm \ -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \ containrrr/watchtower \ --run-once photoshow ```
  • You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Note: We do not endorse the use of Watchtower as a solution to automated updates of existing Docker containers. In fact we generally discourage automated updates. However, this is a useful tool for one-time manual updates of containers where you have forgotten the original parameters. In the long term, we highly recommend using Docker Compose.

Image Update Notifications - Diun (Docker Image Update Notifier)

  • We recommend Diun for update notifications. Other tools that automatically update containers unattended are not recommended or supported.

Building locally

If you want to make local modifications to these images for development purposes or just to customize the logic:
git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-photoshow.git
cd docker-photoshow
docker build \
  --no-cache \
  --pull \
  -t lscr.io/linuxserver/photoshow:latest .

The ARM variants can be built on x8664 hardware using multiarch/qemu-user-static
docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static:register --reset

Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.

Versions

  • 14.10.22: - Deprecate image.
  • 23.01.21: - Rebasing to alpine 3.13.
  • 01.06.20: - Rebasing to alpine 3.12.
  • 19.12.19: - Rebasing to alpine 3.11.
  • 23.09.19: - Adding PHP-Exif for image metadata and processing.
  • 28.06.19: - Rebasing to alpine 3.10.
  • 23.03.19: - Switching to new Base images, shift to arm32v7 tag.
  • 22.02.19: - Rebasing to alpine 3.9.
  • 16.01.19: - Add pipeline logic and multi arch.
  • 05.09.18: - Rebase to alpine 3.8.
  • 07.01.18: - Rebase to alpine 3.7.
  • 25.05.17: - Rebase to alpine 3.6.
  • 03.05.17: - Use repo pinning to better solve dependencies, use repo version of php7-imagick.
  • 14.02.17: - Rebase to alpine 3.5.
  • 14.10.16: - Add version layer information.
  • 30.09.16: - Rebase to alpine linux.
  • 11.09.16: - Add layer badges to README.
  • 21.08.15: - Use patched keybaord js from fork of photoshow.
  • 21.08.15: - Initial Release.

Serve PhotoShow on your own domain behind Caddy, Nginx or Traefik. Fill in your domain and copy the result. It's a starting point, some apps need their own base URL or extra headers set too.

Proxying photoshow.example.com to http://photoshow:80

Add this to your Caddyfile

photoshow.example.com {
	reverse_proxy http://photoshow:80
}

Check the logs first

Nine times out of ten the logs tell you exactly what went wrong.

  • In Portainer, go to Containers, click the container, then Logs. Or run docker logs photoshow
  • Exit codes help too: 137 means killed, usually out of memory. 126 or 127 means the command inside the image is broken.

Published on a random port

This template exposes 80/tcp without setting a host port, so Docker picks a random free one on every deploy.

  • Find it in the Ports column of Portainer's container list, or with docker port photoshow

Permission denied on volumes

If the logs show "permission denied", the app can't write to its data folder on the host.

  • Fix the ownership: sudo chown -R 1000:100 /portainer/Pictures (and the same for the other mapped folders)
  • Or set the PUID and PGID variables (defaults 1000:100) to match your own user, found with id $USER

Image won't pull

Test the pull directly on the host: docker pull linuxserver/photoshow:latest

  • "manifest unknown" means the tag no longer exists. This template uses latest, so try pinning a specific version instead.
  • "toomanyrequests" is the Docker Hub rate limit. Log in with docker login to raise it.
  • "no space left on device" means a full disk. Reclaim space with docker system prune

"exec format error"

This means the image was built for a different CPU architecture than your server.

  • This image supports: amd64, arm/v7, arm64/v8
  • Check yours with uname -m: x86_64 is amd64, aarch64 is arm64. Raspberry Pi and other ARM boards are the usual culprits.

Container keeps restarting

The unless-stopped restart policy relaunches the app after every crash, so the real error can scroll past.

  • Check the logs right after a restart, the last few lines before it died are the useful ones.
  • Get the exit code with docker inspect photoshow --format '{{.State.ExitCode}}'
  • Still stuck? Redeploy once with the restart policy set to no so the failure stays visible.

Raise an issue

Found something which isn't working as it should? Here's how to report it.

A single container

PhotoShow runs as one container, the simplest kind of app here. Just the one image to pull and nothing else wired up alongside it.

The app image

An image is the app packed up ready to go, everything PhotoShow needs bundled into one download. This template pulls linuxserver/photoshow:latest, which Docker fetches once (about 71 MB) and then starts your own copy from.

Where the image comes from

Docker pulls its images from registries, public libraries of ready-built apps. PhotoShow's comes from Docker Hub, published by linuxserver.

Version tags

The bit after the colon in the image name is the version tag. Here it's latest, which always points at the newest build, so a redeploy can bump you to a newer release without you asking. Pin a specific tag if you would rather stay on one version.

Which machines it runs on

Every image is built for particular CPU types. This one ships for amd64, arm/v7, arm64/v8, so it runs on both regular x86 servers and ARM boards like a Raspberry Pi.

Ports

A port is the door the app answers on. Here the app exposes a port but leaves the host side blank, so Docker picks a free one for you. It opens:

  • 80, published on a random host port

Volumes

A volume is where PhotoShow keeps its files so they survive an update or a restart. Without one, anything it saves would sit inside the container and vanish the moment it's recreated. This template mounts:

  • /Pictures from /portainer/Pictures on the host
  • /Thumbs from /portainer/Files/AppData/Photoshow/Thumbs on the host
  • /config from /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/PhotoShow on the host

Environment variables

Environment variables are the settings you hand over when you deploy, things like a password or a timezone. PhotoShow takes 2 of them, all with defaults you can leave alone or tweak:

  • PUID, defaults to 1000
  • PGID, defaults to 100

Restart policy

The restart policy here is unless-stopped, so Docker restarts PhotoShow after a crash or reboot, but leaves it off when you stop it on purpose. You can change this on the deploy screen. The choices are no (never restart), on-failure (only after a crash), unless-stopped (restart unless you stop it), and always (bring it back no matter what).

Users and permissions

The PUID and PGID settings tell it which user and group to act as on your host. Point them at your own account (find yours with id $USER) so the files it writes into your mounted folders come out owned by you rather than root.

Networking

Nothing custom is set, so PhotoShow sits on Docker's default bridge network: its own private space that reaches the outside world only through the ports it publishes.

Container name

Once it's deployed, Portainer names the container photoshow. That's what you'll spot in the containers list and use in commands like docker logs photoshow.

Platform

The platform is linux, the kind of system the container is built to run on. Docker and Portainer handle this on a normal Linux server.

Portainer app templates

Zooming out, this whole page comes from a Portainer app template: a short recipe telling Portainer how to set PhotoShow up. Add the template list to Portainer once, then deploying PhotoShow is a click rather than a wall of config.