Installing Gallery Project (PHP) inside Proxmox 5.x via LXC Container

My family was looking for a simple application to store photos with simple gallery and hopefully with a simple mobile app.

I found this project called Gallery Project from Turnkey Linux. I am lazy and wanted minimal effort to get this up and running, so I was looking for a turnkey solution that I can just install on my home proxmox server.


STEP 1 - Downloading LXC tar.gz file from Proxmox LXC Template

Click link below to download current version of Gallery Project which is 14.02:

http://mirror.turnkeylinux.org/turnkeylinux/images/proxmox/debian-8-turnkey-gallery_14.2-1_amd64.tar.gz

Click here to see list of other LXC tar.gz files you can download for projects supported by Proxmox.


STEP 2 - Uploading LXC Template to Proxmox

Once you have downloaded the tar.gz LXC template from Step 2, you need to upload it to Proxmox storage as a proxmox template so that you can use it when you are Creating a CT (container) in proxmox. Here are some screenshots of how this is done:

Select 'Container template', select your .tar.gz file, then click Upload

STEP 3 - Create LXC Container

I have used the following settings (yours may be different)




STEP 4 - Start the Gallery container and Login to initialize

1. Start the CONSOLE for the container (click on Console > noVNC)
2. login as root using the password that you set on Step 3.
3. Go through the initial process for Turnkey (make sure to write down your passwords)

Once you are done you should see this summary page:

Take note of the IP address and Port # (you will need it in future)

STEP 5 - Login and Enjoy