photogallery

A minimal static photo gallery with an Atom feed and an upload API.

How it works

1. Drop photo.jpg + photo.toml into the content directory (or upload via the web UI at /upload).
2. The binary watches the directory and rebuilds the static site on any change.
3. nginx serves public/ and proxies /upload to the local API, secured with htpasswd.

Sidecar format

caption = "Tempelhof at sunrise"
date    = "2026-06-14"

If no .toml is present the filename is used as the caption and today's date as the date.

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Using as a NixOS flake module

1. Add to your flake inputs

inputs = {
  nixpkgs.url        = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
  photogallery.url   = "github:youruser/photogallery";
};

2. Import the module

nixosConfigurations.myhost = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
  modules = [
    inputs.photogallery.nixosModules.default
    ./configuration.nix
  ];
};

3. Configure

services.photogallery = {
  enable   = true;
  baseURL  = "https://photos.yourdomain.tld";

  # Optional: built-in nginx vhost
  nginx = {
    enable       = true;
    domain       = "photos.yourdomain.tld";
    htpasswdFile = "/etc/nginx/.htpasswd-gallery";
  };
};

Create the htpasswd file:

nix-shell -p apacheHttpd --run \
  "htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd-gallery youruser"

Available options

Option	Default	Description
enable	false	Enable the service
baseURL	—	Public URL, no trailing slash
contentDir	/var/lib/photogallery/content	Images and .toml sidecars
outputDir	/var/lib/photogallery/public	Generated site output
port	8080	Upload API port (localhost only)
nginx.enable	false	Configure an nginx vhost
nginx.domain	—	Domain for the vhost
nginx.htpasswdFile	—	htpasswd file for /upload
nginx.enableACME	true	Enable Let's Encrypt

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Bootstrap (first build)

buildGoModule needs a go.sum and the correct vendorHash.

# 1. Generate go.sum
go mod tidy

# 2. Commit go.sum
git add go.sum && git commit -m "add go.sum"

# 3. Get the vendorHash — this will fail and print the correct hash
nix build
# error: hash mismatch ... got: sha256-XXXXX...

# 4. Paste the hash into flake.nix, then build again
nix build

Uploading via curl

curl -u user:password \
     -F "image=@photo.jpg" \
     -F "caption=Tempelhof at sunrise" \
     -F "date=2026-06-14" \
     https://photos.yourdomain.tld/upload

Or open https://photos.yourdomain.tld/upload in a browser.