Gallery 3 is a web based software product that lets you manage your photos on your own website. You must have your own website with PHP and database support in order to install and use it. With Gallery you can easily create and share albums of photos via an intuitive interface.

Intended Audience

This version is intended for anybody who has a website. We stand ready to support the product and help you to make the most of it. We welcome theme and module developers to play with this release and start turning out slick new designs for our happy users. If you have questions or problems, you can get help in the Gallery forums:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gallery-3-users

Security

We've contracted a professional security audit, received their results and resolved all the issues they found.

Did you find a security flaw? Please email security@galleryproject.org with the details and we'll fix it ASAP!

Supported Configuration

Platform: Linux / Unix.
Web server: Apache 2.2 and newer.
PHP 5.6 and newer (PHP's safe_mode must be disabled and simplexml, filter, and json must be installed).
short_open_tag must be enabled
Database: MySQL 5 and newer.

For complete system requirements, please refer to:

http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Requirements

Installing and Upgrading Instructions

NOTE: When upgrading from PHP 5 to PHP 7 you will need to change the database type from mysql to mysqli in var/database.php:

$config['default'] = array(
  'benchmark'     => false,
  'persistent'    => false,
  'connection'    => array(
    'type'     => 'mysqli',

For docker installations:

https://hub.docker.com/r/bwdutton/gallery3

For comprehensive instructions, The online User Guide is your best resource:

http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:User_guide

There are also simple instructions below. NOTE: You can upgrade from beta 1 and beyond, but not from alpha releases.

Installation via the web

Point your web browser at gallery3/installer/ and follow the instructions.

Installation from the command line

php installer/index.php [-h host] [-u user] [-p pass] [-d dbname]

Command line parameters:

 -h     Database host          (default: localhost)
 -u     Database user          (default: root)
 -p     Database user password (default: )
 -d     Database name          (default: gallery3)
 -x     Table prefix           (default: )

Bugs, Questions, Problems?

Check out the Gallery 3 FAQ: http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:FAQ
Try the support group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gallery-3-users