PicInch Gallery provides a simple way for a group of members, such as a photography club, to display their photographs.
Configuration parameters may be specified in this file, or as environment variables. Settings here will be overridden by environment variables in docker-compose.yml. This an example configuration file with just the essential settings.
# Example configuration for PicInch Gallery server.
# - Edit and rename to configuration.yml
# - Take care to keep indentation unchanged when editing. Do not use tabs.
db-password: <server password>
# The following is needed for certificate registration with Let's Encrypt domains:
- our-domain.com
- www.our-domain.com
# Address to be notified of problems with certificates
certificate-email: you@example.com
# A random 32 character key used to encrypt users session data
# For example, start with this one and change a lot of the individual characters.
session-secret: Hk4TEiDgq8JaCNR?WaPeWBf4QQYNUjMR
# Administrator, to be added to the database
admin-name: admin@example.com
admin-password: <your-password>
Set the following items as needed. Default values are as shown.
A database connection is requested with DSN db-user:db-password@db-source?parseTime=true
. A MariaDB or MySQL database is required.
db-source tcp(picinch_db:3306)/picinch
db-user server
db-password <server-password>
domains List of domains for which Let’s Encrypt certificates will be requested on first access.
" - "
as shown in the example above.This is intended for testing and is not recommended for production.
certificate-email Address given to Let’s Encrypt, for notification of problems with certificates.
session-secret A random 32 character key used to encrypt users session data.
Specifies the username and password for an PicInch administrator if the username does not exist in the database. These items may be removed after setup if desired.
admin-name E.g. me@mydomain.com.
admin-password <your-password>
Photos uploaded are resized to fit these dimensions.
image-width 1600
stored image width
image-height 1200
stored image height
thumbnail-width 278
thumbnail width
thumbnail-height 208
thumbnail height
highlights-page 12
highlights shown on home page, and on user’s page
highlights-topic 32
total slides in H format topic ??
Contributions on the home page are limited per-user.
highlights-user 2
highlights shown on home page
slides-show 10
not implemented
slideshows-club 2
club slideshows on home page, per user
slideshows-public 1
public slideshows on home page, per user
misc-name misc
path in URL for miscelleneous files, as in example.com/misc/file
parent-highlights 16
highlights available for parent website
thumbnail-refresh 1h
refresh interval for topic thumbnails. Units m(inutes) or h(ours).
usage-anon 1
Anonymisation of user IDs: 0 = daily, 1 = immediate.
http-addr :8000
site HTTP address
https-addr :4000
site HTTPS address