Coppermine Photo Gallery 1.6 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Media & Entertainment

Coppermine Photo Gallery, a mature open source multi user web photo gallery with categories, albums, user uploads, comments, ratings and EXIF, on a classic PHP and MariaDB stack.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Coppermine Photo Gallery is an established open source application for publishing and managing photos on the web. It organises pictures into categories and albums, supports multi user accounts with per album permissions, and lets visitors browse thumbnails, view full size images, leave comments, rate pictures and read EXIF metadata. Administrators manage everything from a built in web console, with batch uploads, album passwords, e-cards, keyword search and a theme and plugin system for customising the look and feel. Thumbnails and intermediate sizes are generated automatically on upload, so a large collection stays fast to browse. It suits photographers, clubs, families and organisations that want a private, self hosted gallery they control rather than a third party photo service.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg ships Coppermine on a full LAMP stack, nginx with PHP 8.3 and MariaDB, ready within minutes of launch. The MariaDB database and every uploaded photo, with its generated thumbnails, sit on a dedicated, independently resizable data volume that is re provisioned with every instance. Nothing ships with a known login: a fresh administrator account, the database password and the site security token are all generated on the machine's first boot and written to a root only file, so no two deployments share a credential, and the installer is removed so it can never be re run. A small sample gallery is seeded so the thumbnails are ready to browse the moment you sign in. The base is fully patched with unattended security updates enabled, and every image comes with a step by step deploy guide and 24/7 cloudimg support.

Common uses

  • A private, self hosted photo gallery for a photographer, club or family
  • A multi user community gallery where members upload to their own albums
  • Publishing a curated, categorised image library on infrastructure you control

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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