Photo Gallery software that can *sync* with Amazon S3?
October 23, 2013 3:01 AM   Subscribe

Is there software that I can run on a LAMP server that will periodically poll an Amazon S3 Bucket and build a photo gallery based on the "folders" it finds within that bucket? Even better if it's something that generates a static HTML site and a RSS feed. Help me out AskMefites!

I have been a Flickr Pro for several years now, but the recent changes have left me a little wary of having it be the primary place for publishing my photos online. Instead I'd like to host the photos on my own site and then use something like IFTTT to publish to Flickr.

However, the server I use for most of my other sites has fairly limited disk space and I'd prefer not to host the photos on it directly and instead use Amazon S3 as the backend. Now I have been able to find photoblog software that can use Amazon S3 but it seems to be a one-way sync, i.e., I upload via the Photoblog UI and the files are shunted over Amazon S3. This unfortunately means I don't have a way of sending photos from my phone to the photoblog site, even though apps exist that would upload photos from my phone to a Amazon S3 Bucket.

There is an existing AskMe from 2 years ago, but there isn't a very conclusive answer in that thread.
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek to Computers & Internet (5 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Mhm, I don't know if this could be a solution for you, but Owncloud has a photo gallery feature, that builds automatically a gallery out of any image file in its folders.
And it is possible to mount an Amazon S3 share.
posted by ironicon at 5:24 AM on October 23, 2013


Owncloud's photo gallery feature is barely functional though. I think The Gallery Project can use S3 as a back end.
posted by COD at 6:07 AM on October 23, 2013


Response by poster: ironicon: I did consider owncloud, but from what I can tell, the default setting for photo galleries is private and sharing is to other users or specified email users. It does not seem to work as well as a public photo gallery.

COD:Gallery comes very close, but the AWS S3 plugin page states that content is being replicated to S3 and it is not the default storage mechanism which Gallery will use. That is a problem for me as my VPS has fairly limited disk space.
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek at 6:41 PM on October 23, 2013


This shouldn't be too hard to whip up on an Amazon AWS instance. Certainly, it's a good first programming project if you're looking to learn PHP or something similar.
posted by ph00dz at 4:33 PM on October 24, 2013


Response by poster: phoodz:That is definitely an option. But the detritus of many barely-started projects cluttering my hard drive suggest that my coding ambitions are far bigger than my actual coding skillz. I'm hoping if anyone can point me atleast in the general direction of how to use something like say Jekyll or Octopress to achieve what I'm hoping for, that should be enough to get me started.
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek at 6:37 PM on October 24, 2013


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