Piwigo is a photo gallery software for the web that comes with powerful features to publish and manage your collection of pictures. Piwigo is open source and is designed for organizations, teams and individuals. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Piwigo on your Synology NAS using Docker.

💡Note: This guide works perfectly with the latest Piwigo 14.3.0 release.

• STEP 1

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• STEP 2

Install Portainer using my step by step guide. If you already have Portainer installed on your Synology NAS, skip this STEP. Attention: Make sure you have installed the latest Portainer version.

• STEP 3

Go to File Station and open the docker folder. Inside the docker folder, create two new folders and name one piwigo and the other one piwigodb. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

• STEP 4

Now create one new folder inside the piwigo folder that you have previously created at STEP 3 and name it gallery. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

• STEP 5

Log into Portainer using your username and password. On the left sidebar in Portainer, click on Stacks then + Add stack. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 6

In the Name field type in piwigo. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Note: Copy Paste the code below in the Portainer Stacks Web editor.

version: "3.9"
services:
  piwigo:
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/piwigo
    container_name: Piwigo
    healthcheck:
      test: curl -f http://localhost:80/ || exit 1
    environment:
      - PUID=1026
      - PGID=100
      - TZ=Europe/Bucharest
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/piwigo:/config:rw
      - /volume1/docker/piwigo/gallery:/gallery:rw
    ports:
      - 8633:80
    restart: on-failure:5
  db:
    image: mysql
    container_name: Piwigo-DB
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "mysqladmin" ,"ping", "-h", "localhost"]
    restart: on-failure:5
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: piwigo
      MYSQL_DATABASE: piwigo
      MYSQL_USER: piwigo
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: piwigo
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/piwigodb:/var/lib/mysql:rw

Note: After you paste the code above in the Web editor, change the value numbers for PUID and PGID with your own values. (Follow my step by step guide on how to do this.)
Note: After you paste the code above in the Web editor, change the value for TZ. (Select your current Time Zone from this list.)

• STEP 7

Scroll down on the page until you see a button named Deploy the stack. Click on it. Follow the instructions in the image below. The installation process can take up to a few minutes. It will depend on your Internet speed connection.

• STEP 8

If everything goes right, you will see this message at the top right of your screen: “Success Stack successfully deployed“.

• STEP 9

Go back to STEP 1 or you will deal with karma 🙂

• STEP 10

The installation process can take up to a few seconds/minutes. It will depend on your Internet speed connection. Now open your browser and type in http://Synology-ip-address:8633 Select your Default gallery language then add the following data:

1. On the Host field type in: Piwigo-DB
2. On the User field type in: piwigo
3. On the Password field type in: piwigo
4. On the Database field type in: piwigo
5. On the Database tables prefix type in: piwigo_

Add your own username, password and email then click Start installation. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 11

Click visit the gallery. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 12

Click Deactivate this message. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 13

At the top right of the page click Admin to access the Administration Dashboard. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 14

Create new albums then uploads your Photos. You can also switch the administration dashboard to Dark Mode. Follow then instructions in the image below.

• STEP 15

Your Piwigo instance at a glance!

• STEP 16

Note: If you want to run the Piwigo container over an HTTPS connection, check out my guide on How to Run Docker Containers Over HTTPS.

Enjoy Piwigo!

🆘TROUBLESHOOTING

If you encounter issues by using this container, make sure to check out the Common Docker issues article.

Note: If you want to run the Piwigo container over HTTPS, check How to Run Docker Containers Over HTTPS. In order to make Piwigo work via HTTPS, it’s mandatory to activate WebSocket.

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This post was updated on Friday / March 29th, 2024 at 8:37 PM