Gallery 3 on Ubuntu 12.04 mini-HOWTO

This mini-HOWTO will guide you though installation of Gallery 3 on Ubuntu 12.04, as a subdomain managed by Virtualmin.

Since the main dish of this mini-HOWTO is NOT about Virtualmin + Ubuntu 12.04, so I will assume you have that installed correctly. Please also refer to link provided for more information of subdomain creation.

Prepare the subdomain for Gallery 3

Here I will create a subdomain for Gallery 3 as below:

• Domain name: gallery3.example.com
• Parent server: example.com (example)
• Home directory: /home/example/domains/gallery3.example.com
• Website documents sub-directory: /home/example/domains/gallery3.example.com/public_html

Fetch Gallery 3 from GIT

I would like to use GIT version of Gallery 3 so can update with git pull simply. First login as user example then run:

cd /home/example/domains/gallery3.example.com/public_html/
git init
git remote add origin git://github.com/gallery/gallery3.git
git fetch
git branch 3.0.x origin/3.0.x
git checkout 3.0.x
chown -Rf example:example /home/example/

Start Gallery 3 installation

Now access http://gallery3.example.com/ and should start the installer as below:

Fill in the information as below:

• Database name: example_gallery3
• User: example
• Password: your_secret_password
• Host: localhost

Update administrator information

Once install complete click on "Start using Gallery" and now it should prompt you as below:

Add some photoes

Ok so most likely your Gallery 3 already get ready for use. Now add some photoes?

Let's enjoy it ;-)