This project is a fork of the remche/docker-sigal project. The Docker image, based on nginx official one, includes the code for running a sigal gallery website.

Default configuration use the galleria theme, keep original and put gallery in /usr/share/nginx/html. You can use a docker volume if you want it permanent

Exposed volumes

/pictures : Where your data files are stored.
/config : Where you can find and edit the configuration file
/themes : Where you can store external themes
/plugins : Where you can store external plugins
/usr/share/nginx/html : Where the generated HTML code is stored. Decalring it as a volume allows for making it permanent

docker run command setting all these volumes

mkdir -p pictures config themes plugins html

docker run -p 8888:80 \
    -v ./pictures:/pictures \
    -v ./config:/config \
    -v ./themes:/themes \
    -v ./plugins:/plugins \
    -v ./html:/usr/share/nginx/html \
    -n sigal-server \
    -d zafacs/sigal

Environment variables

JPEG_QUALITY: set the default quality for JPEG conversion. Option to be added to the docker run command :
HTPASSWD: Allows for setting a basic authentication in htpasswd. You might then use SSL with nginx-proxy.
CRONJOB: Allows to define a cron task in the docker container that will update the website. The value of the CRONJOB variable is a text constituted of 5 items defining at witch time the update has to be done. The syntax follows the crontab syntax
- * * * * * : The site is updated every minute.
- 10 * * * * : The site is updated every hour at the 10^{th} minute.
- */15 * * * * : The site is updated every 15 minutes.

docker run -p 8888:80 \
    -v ./pictures:/pictures \
    -v ./config:/config \
    -v ./themes:/themes \
    -v ./plugins:/plugins \
    -v ./html:/usr/share/nginx/html \
    -n sigal-server \
    -e JPEG_QUALITY=80 \
    -e HTPASSWD='foo:$apr1$odHl5EJN$KbxMfo86Qdve2FH4owePn.' \
    -e CRONJOB='*/15 * * * *' \
    -d zafacs/sigal

You can use the following command to force the regeneration of gallery :

docker exec sigal-ct  build_sigal