LibrePhotos

LibrePhotos is a great open-source solution for your own photos management, backup and organization.

There are other solutions out there like:

• Immich, which i covered here, which i am currently preferring to LibrePhotos since they enabled to import existing photo collections.
• PhotoPrism, which i have no tried yet, but it requires a paid recurrent membership to access some features, and i don't like that.

LibrePhotos seems a fine solution while providing a good web UI and nice Android apps both official LibrePhotos and third party Uhuru Photos that just works.

The biggest drawback to LibrePhotos is that is does not support sub-paths in the Web UI, so you need to expose a port over your tunnels at this time, bypassing NGINX reverse proxy, it's authentication ans HTTPS (this could probably be set-up for LibrePhotos manually).

The base-url issue can be tracked here.

You will be using Docker because base-metal install is pretty complex.

 > emerge -vp docker docker-compose

The ocmposer YAML is here:

 mkdir /data/daemons/librephotos
 > cd /data/daemons/librephotos
 > git clone https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos-docker.git
 > cd librephotos-docker
 > cp librephotos.env .env

now edit your .env and at very least set:

scanDirectory=/data/Photos
data=/data/daemons/librephotos/data
httpPort=2283

set any port you like. 2283 is just an example. Then start the containers:

 > cd /data/daemons/librephotos/librephotos-docker
 > docker-compose up -d

containers should automatically restart at reboot too.

Since LibrePhotos does not support subpaths, you cannot use NGINX to serve it. The best solution you cna use is to add a tunnel for port 2283 from your server to your external server, and maybe also add an automatic recirect in NGINX:

librephotos.conf

location /photos {
        auth_pam off;
         return      301 http://$host:2283/;
}

and add it to your main.conf:

include folders/librephotos.conf;

and restart NGINX:

 > /etc/init.t/nginx restart

this will only redirect your browser, not actually use NGINX to reverse-proxy the service.