ImageHost

imagehost is an online Image Hosting platform build using Laravel Framework.

Requirement

• PHP 5.6.4+ (7.0 preferred)
• PHP Extensions: openssl, mcrypt and mbstring, phpredis
• Database server: MySQL or MariaDB
• Redis Server
• Composer
• Node.js with npm

Installation

• clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/bhutanio/imagehost.git imagehost
• create a database
• create configuration env file .env refer to .env.example
• install: composer install --no-dev
• setup database tables: php artisan migrate

Configuration

Image Storage Location

There are 3 locations you can configure using APP_STORAGE option in the .env file

• APP_STORAGE=local : store image only in your local storage
• APP_STORAGE=localcloud : store image in the cloud and keep a local cache
• APP_STORAGE=cloud : store image only in the cloud

Setup Admin Account

php artisan tinker

DB::table('users')->where('id', 2)->update(['email'=>'myemail@example.com']);

Click on forgot password link on the login page and reset password for your admin user.

Setup Cron Job

crontab -e -u www-data

* * * * * php /home/web/imagehost/artisan schedule:run >/dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * php /home/web/imagehost/artisan auth:clear-resets >/dev/null 2>&1

Setup Supervisor

nano /etc/supervisor/conf.d/imagehost.conf

[program:imagehost-queue]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /home/web/imagehost/artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=3
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=www-data
numprocs=2

Setup Google ReCaptcha

Visit https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin and register your site

Get Site key and Secret key, add them in your .env file

...
## Secret Key
API_GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA='SECRET KEY'

## Site Key
API_GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_CLIENT='SITE KEY'
...

License

imagehost is open source software licensed under the MIT license.