Photo Server Software?

[Don Levey]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Historically I've just put up all my pictures on my own web server.
> I have a perl script that builds a thumbnail and then a simple
> HTML page that shows all the pictures and puts them on a page
> with links to the full images.  That worked fine when my camera
> was a 1.3MP Olympus I acquired in 2000.
> 
> Now that I've got an 8MP camera I'd like to try to set up something a
> little nicer.  Perhaps something that will allow the viewer to see the
> image at different resolutions, and would allow me to easily add
> comments to the photos.  Yes, I could add comments to my current
> HTML-based solution but it would be better (IMHO) to have a real
> photo distribution package to upload and manage my photos.
> 
> So my question to you -- what's the best package out there to
> run on my Linux/Apache server?  There appear to be no less than
> a dozen choices out there, mostly in PHP.  But which is the
> best in terms of functionality, speed, and security?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -derek
> 
I tend to use Gallery2 (http://gallery.menalto.com/) though I'm not sure
its performance is the best.  It handles many albums (with
customization), comments, video, and is often embedded into other solutions.

 -Don