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            <h1>Install Lychee - Photo Management System - On Linux</h1>
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          <h2>What is Lychee?</h2>

<blockquote><em>Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Installing is a matter of seconds. Upload, manage and share photos like from a native application. Lychee comes with everything you need and all your photos are stored securely. -<a href="https://lycheeorg.github.io/" target="_blank">https://lycheeorg.github.io/</a></em></blockquote>

<h2>Installation</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal window:
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install available software updates<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install prerequisites<br />
	sudo apt install curl wget zip -y<br />
	# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL<br />
	sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y<br />
	# install PHP components<br />
	sudo apt install php php-common php-mysqli php-mysql php-pdo-mysql php-bcmath php-gd php-xsl php-mbstring php-dom php-imagick php-xml -y<br />
	# configure the MySQL database<br />
	sudo su<br />
	mysql_secure_installation</div>
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	<li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
	<li>Type N and press Enter to not switch to unix socket authentication</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
	<li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
	<div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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	<li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
	<li>Run the following commands to create the Lychee database and database user
	<div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE lychee;<br />
	GRANT ALL ON lychee.* to &#39;lychee_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;Lych33!&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	EXIT;<br />
	exit</div>
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	<li>Continue with the following commands:
	<div class="codeBlock"># fetch the latest download URL<br />
	regex='"browser_download_url": "(https:\/\/github.com\/LycheeOrg\/Lychee\/releases\/download\/[^/]*\/[^/]*\.zip)"' && response=$(curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/LycheeOrg/Lychee/releases/latest) && [[ $response =~ $regex ]] && downloadURL="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"<br />
	# download the latest release<br />
	wget -O /tmp/lychee.zip $downloadURL<br />
	# extract the downloaded zip to /var/www<br />
	sudo unzip /tmp/lychee.zip -d /var/www<br />
	# rename the extracted folder<br />
	sudo mv /var/www/Lychee* /var/www/lychee<br />
	# set the owner of the lychee directory<br />
	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/lychee<br />
	# create lychee apache configuration<br />
	sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/lychee.conf</div>
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	<li>Paste the following configuration into lychee.conf
	<p>Alias /lychee &quot;/var/www/lychee/public&quot;<br />
	&lt;Directory /var/www/lychee/public&gt;<br />
	# enable the .htaccess rewrites<br />
	AllowOverride All<br />
	Order allow,deny<br />
	Allow from All<br />
	&lt;/Directory&gt;</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes</li>
	<li>Run the following command to enable the lychee site
	<div class="codeBlock"># enable rewrite module<br />
	sudo a2enmod rewrite<br />
	# enable the lychee site<br />
	sudo a2ensite lychee<br />
	# restart the apache2 service<br />
	sudo systemctl restart apache2</div>
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<h2>Lychee Web Installer</h2>

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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/lychee</li>
	<li>Click Next at the Lychee welcome screen</li>
	<li>Click Next at the Requirements Check</li>
	<li>Click Next at the Permissions Check</li>
	<li>Update at least the following values in the
	<p>APP_URL=http://DNSorIP<br />
	APP_DIR=/lychee<br />
	<br />
	DB_CONNECTION=mysql<br />
	DB_HOST=localhost<br />
	DB_PORT=3306<br />
	DB_DATABASE=lychee<br />
	DB_USERNAME=lychee_rw<br />
	DB_PASSWORD=Lych33!</p>
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	<li>Click Save &gt; Click Install</li>
	<li>Once the installation completes click Set up admin account</li>
	<li>Enter a Username &gt; Enter and confirm a Password &gt; Click Create admin account</li>
	<li>Click Open Lychee</li>
	<li>Welcome to Lychee</li>
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<p>Documentation: <a href="https://lycheeorg.github.io/docs/#installation" target="_blank">https://lycheeorg.github.io/docs/#installation</a></p>          </div>
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