Photo Server Software?

[David Rosenstrauch]

Don Levey wrote:
> 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

+1 on the Gallery recommendation.

DR