Hosting my own family photo storage site?

[Kremlar]

I want to host my own family photos on a web site. I want to host it myself.

I have no problem setting up the web server side of it (running IIS), but don't want to get into writing any HTML code.

Are there any good resources for basic web site templates? I'm looking for something I can basically dump into a folder, copy in my pictures, maybe edit a few lines of code, and that's it.

A username/password login would be ideal.

Does something like this exist??

Thanks!

 

[kranky]

Adobe Photoshop Elements has a nifty wizard that lets you select a group of photos and it outputs web pages with thumbnails and optional captions. No HTML editing necessary at all, just upload to your site.

 

[Kremlar]

Cool, thanks. Any idea if it provides any kind of username/password security?

 

[ravana]

I've used gallery for the past 4 years and it's worked pretty well for me.

Gallery 1 - doesn't need a database, clean and simple.
Gallery 2 - needs database, lot nicer templates and such.

It has pretty good user security via users, groups & protected directories.

Forgot to mention coppermine too.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: Kremlar
Cool, thanks. Any idea if it provides any kind of username/password security?

No, it just outputs web pages. You'd have to implement that yourself if you wanted it. But all I do is upload the stuff to a directory not linked to any other page on the site, so you can't get to it unless you know the exact directory path. For me, that's good enough.

 

[radioouman]

I'm running Gallery, and I like it. In fact, I have two versions of it running.

But I'm not sure if you can run it using IIS. You may have to install Apache. I just can't remember if that's why I switched to apache or not.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: ravana
I've used gallery for the past 4 years and it's worked pretty well for me.

Gallery 1 - doesn't need a database, clean and simple.
Gallery 2 - needs database, lot nicer templates and such.

It has pretty good user security via users, groups & protected directories.

Forgot to mention coppermine too.

Before I left for India I set up Gallery to host my pics for friends and family. EXTREMELY easy to set up and use, no messing with conf files, just run through the online wizard, plus it has some pretty cool features based on imagemagick.

 

[Adul]

another notch for gallery

 

[kami333]

+1 for gallery2, the upload tool makes things a lot easier for multiple photos.

 

[jjones]

One more recommendation for gallery2.

 

[Runes911]

Originally posted by: radioouman
I'm running Gallery, and I like it. In fact, I have two versions of it running.

But I'm not sure if you can run it using IIS. You may have to install Apache. I just can't remember if that's why I switched to apache or not.

A web server, php and some graphics manipulation programs. You probably already know these things... but there is ONE new requirement: a database. Right now, there is support for MySQL 3,4, PostgreSQL and Oracle 9/10. Of course, the other requirements are a web server (apache, iis, zeus?), php (4 or 5) and some graphics manipulation packages (netpbm, imagemagick, ffmpeg, gd). Space for the images is probably one of the more obvious requirements