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Manage your photo library. Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.

![screenshot](https://piwigo.org/screenshots/github-screenshot-2.10.jpg)

The [piwigo.org](https://piwigo.org) website introduces you to Piwigo. You'll find a demo, forums, wiki and news.
 
## Requirements

 * A webserver (Apache or nginx recommended)
 * PHP 7.4+. Piwigo can run with PHP 7.0+ but these end-of-life versions are no longer maintained and may expose your site to security vulnerabilities.
 * MySQL 5 or greater or MariaDB equivalent
 * ImageMagick (recommended) or PHP GD

## Quick start install

### NetInstall

 * Download the [NetInstall script](https://piwigo.org/download/dlcounter.php?code=netinstall)
 * Transfer the script to your web space with any FTP client
 * Open the script in you web browser (for example http://example.com/piwigo-netinstall.php) and follow the steps

[More information](https://piwigo.org/guides/install/netinstall)

### Manual

 * Download the [latest stable version](https://piwigo.org/download/dlcounter.php?code=latest) and unzip it
 * Transfer everything to your web space with any FTP client
 * Open your website (for example http://example.com/piwigo) and follow the steps

[More information](https://piwigo.org/guides/install/manual)

If you do not have your own server, consider the [piwigo.com](https://piwigo.com/) hosting solution.

## Contributing

Piwigo is widely driven by its community; if you want to improve the code, fork this repo and submit your changes to the `master` branch. See our [Contribution guide](https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md).

## License

Piwigo is released under the GPL v2 license. See our [Copying details](https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/blob/master/COPYING.txt).