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            <h1>Install Lychee - Photo Management System - On Windows</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>Download XAMPP <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Download Lychee <a href="https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/releases/latest" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_917989_0">Download Microsoft Visual C++ </label><label for="cb_li_917989_0"><a href="https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe" target="_blank">Download</a></label></li>
	<li>Install Microsoft Visual C++</li>
	<li>Right click the downloaded XAMPP file &gt; Extract All...</li>
	<li>Right click the downloaded Lychee.zip file &gt; Extract All...</li>
	<li>Rename the Extracted folder lychee (all lowercase)</li>
	<li>Cut the lychee folder inside the XAMPP directory</li>
	<li>Navigate back to the Downloads directory and copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example</li>
	<li>Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location</li>
	<li>Navigate into XAMPP/PHP and edit php.ini in a text editor</li>
	<li>Find the list of extensions and make sure the following are enabled by removing the ; at the start of the line
	<p>extension=curl<br />
	extension=fileinfo<br />
	extension=gd<br />
	extension=xsl<br />
	extension=mbstring<br />
	extension=mysqli<br />
	extension=pdo_mysql</p>
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	<li>Save the changes to php.ini</li>
	<li>Navigate into XAMPP/Apache/conf and edit httpd.conf in a text editor</li>
	<li>Paste the following at the bottom of the httpd.conf file
	<p>Alias /lychee &quot;C:/Program Files/xampp/lychee/public&quot;<br />
	&lt;Directory &quot;C:/Program Files/xampp/lychee/public&quot;&gt;<br />
	# enable the .htaccess rewrites<br />
	AllowOverride All<br />
	Options +FollowSymLinks<br />
	Require all granted<br />
	Order allow,deny<br />
	Allow from All<br />
	&lt;/Directory&gt;</p>
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	<li>Save the changes and close out of the editor</li>
	<li>Back in File Explorer, run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe</li>
	<li>Click the Start buttons next to Apache and MySQL</li>
	<li>Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin</li>
	<li>Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space &gt; Open PowerShell window here...</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in the PowerShell window to setup the database
	<div class="codeBlock PS">.\mysql -u root<br />
	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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<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>
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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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