Comments on: Piwigo – Create Your Own Photo Gallery Website

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 05:52:41 +0000

Sincerest thanks, Matei and team, for crafting this wonderfully comprehensive walkthrough. I’m up and running thanks to the fine job you’ve done. A quick note regarding a challenge encountered with sending emails from within Piwigo; /var/log/php-fpm/www-error.log indicated that SMTP connection attempts were failing. A bit of research took me to the PHPMailer Troubleshooting guide (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting) where the author shares that SELinux on CentOS / Fedora / RedHat distributions often, by default, disallow httpd from making connections for sending an email.

Checking the current config with ‘getsebool httpd_can_sendmail‘ as directed, I was answered with “httpd_can_sendmail –> off“. As the author states, executing ‘sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail 1‘ allows httpd to send mail, and after a quick restart of the httpd service (‘systemctl restart httpd’), emails are flying free.

Thank you again for another opportunity to learn and broaden horizons!

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:58:47 +0000

In reply to Thommy M..

@Thommy,

That’s great you finally installed Piwigo. If any help, feel free to post your queries here, we love to answer..

By: Thommy M.

Thommy M. — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:30:12 +0000

Yepp, I followed the instruction to the point. Also finally found out that one has to use the database root user/passwd at the installation. Not the piwigo account created in the instructions. That made me a bit scared … However it installed.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 06:45:30 +0000

In reply to Thommy M..

@Thommy,

Have you followed the instructions carefully? Do you able to access Piwigo installation wizard at http://your-domain.com?

By: Thommy M.

Thommy M. — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:10:36 +0000

Hi,

I’ve followed your instructions on a Fedora 28, MariaDB, Apache and PHP server and I can access a test.php (phpinfo) from remote, but the Piwigo installation gives this error message “Cannot connect to server”.

Any hints on where to start debugging?