On 2023-04-17 12:01, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Digikam has the appeal that it is a static webpage, thus trivial to put on Apache. Low CPU load on it, too, it doesn't run code.
Even if you are running your Apache on a 486dx2, unless you are running a popular local Instagrum, nobody is going to notice the "load". My own gallery is running on a Proliant DL380 G3, with two CPUs, at 2.4GHz. (shared with another 50 websites). Almost twenty years old.
Caveats, several.
Adding a single photo means you have to generate the complete thing, from selecting the set of photos, to selecting the same theme and options, then sending it all, including the same photos to the server. It is just a few clicks, so it is easy.
The thumbnails and normal sized photos are generated "at compile time". Each time you do a change to the theme, they are generated again, so if your photo collection is large, that's a considerable time.
You can not add texts. Some of the themes can add a copyright and/or email address. Of course, you can edit the generated html files, but if you do a change at the "source", your mods are gone.
The generator takes automatically the caption that is already included in the exif data of each photo. Not the tittle, though.
Purely(!) for fun and because it is a half-holiday here in Zurich - with my amazing "vesiga":
:-)
* adding photos means nothing, until somebody actually wants to see them. No clicks involved at all.
* the thumbnails and normal sized photos are generated at runtime. If you change a photo, they are not automagically updated. (apache doesn't have a rewrite test for "file1 newer than file2").
* your photo collection can be as large as you want, it changes nothing.
* you can add texts
* I don't see any captions or titles in the exif data of my photos:
It is an option in digiKam. You create them. <https://paste.opensuse.org/7acc76213ba9>
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)