Most important features are

• user management: a user can
  • The root user can manage users permissions by drag’n drop from lists
  • see albums from an available albums list
  • see tags from an available tags list
  • not see pictures tagged with a forbiden tag on an available album
  • not see pictures from a given album on an available tag
  • rate pictures
  • tag / untag pictures
• Images preview: Pictures can be displayed as lists from albums or tags, or one by one
  • Exif data
  • Geolocalisations (google maps)
  • rating/tags/album related…
• Cache management
  • Thumbnails are generated at loading and stored in a cache folder
  • The cache is optimized to not reload preview already downloaded by the browser

More information available at http://lauters.fr/blog/digikamwebui/

To install the web interface in X steps:

• download the sources and put them into your WWW folder ( ie. /var/www/digikamWebUi )
• setup your webserver (ie. apache2 ) for CakePhp applications
  • enable mod_rewrite in apache
  • change the default for AllowOverride in apache to ALL in your apache configuration file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
  • give to the app/tmp directory the right permissions (write).
  • be sure to have installed mysql support for php in case you use mysql.
  • be sure to install sqlite suport in php in case you use sqlite
• setup databases (file app/config/database.php, doc here http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/configuration.html )
  • The digikam one (containing the collection): public $default = array( 'datasource' => 'Database/Sqlite', 'database' => '/PATH/TO/digikam4.db', ); That's all for this one
  • The WebUi one (user management, user rights...)

    • Schema creation The SQL file to load is app/Config/Schema/digikamWebUi.sql. For example:

        cat app/Config/Schema/digikamWebUi.sql | sqlite3 PATH/TO/A/NEW/DATABASE/digikamWebUi.db
      

    • CakePhp configuration public $digikamWebUi = array( 'datasource' => 'Database/Sqlite', 'database' => 'PATH/TO/A/NEW/DATABASE/digikamWebUi.db', );

• create the admin user (Which is the first one registered) http://localhost/digikamWebUi/users/add
• check the registered path in app/config/bootstrap.php Configure::write('Digikam.root', '/home'); // this path will be prepended to the AlbumRoot.specificPath from the digikam database to get the complete path to the album.
• Login
• Add users and manage their right

In case of error, you can first refer to the CakePhp documentation http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/installation.html Tips

• To activate debug informations, reasons of 500 errors, warnings... Please set Configure::write('debug', 0); to 2 in app/config/core.php
• When debug is activated, you can add debug($myVar); to get the content of a var displayed (in app/Controller/ImagesController.php:download