Gallery Web App

This is a gallery website I built and decided to share as a public example.

Layout

• web/: reverse proxy and watchdog examples for the public-facing host
• app/: Rust application source, templates, static files, database migrations, and host scripts

What Each Server Needs

This example assumes two FreeBSD servers:

• web
• app

Web server

• FreeBSD
• nginx
• a public domain
• TLS certificates for that domain
• network access to the app server on port 8080
• optional Telegram bot token and chat id if you want alerting

App server

• FreeBSD
• Rust toolchain with cargo
• a C toolchain such as gcc or clang
• pkg-config
• PostgreSQL
• writable directories for:
  • uploads/
  • uploads/thumbs/
  • run/

Notes About Other Operating Systems

You may be able to run this on another operating system if you can install equivalent packages there.

If you do that, you are responsible for adapting the differences yourself, including:

• service management
• package names
• filesystem paths
• OS-specific setup details

App Server Setup

1. Copy app/root/.env.example to app/root/.env.
2. Fill in your own admin usernames, password hashes, API key hashes, database URL, and IndexNow key.
3. Create a PostgreSQL database.
4. Start the app from app/root/.

Example:

cd app/root
cargo run --release

The app listens on 0.0.0.0:8080 by default. You can override that with BIND_ADDR and PORT.

Web Server Setup

1. Open web/nginx/nginx.conf.
2. Replace all <...> placeholders with your own values.
3. Point the upstream to your app server address.
4. Install the config into nginx.
5. Reload or restart nginx.

Alerts

The web/alerts/ and app/ops/alerts/ directories contain Telegram alert examples. Replace the <...> placeholders before using them.

Important Files

• app/root/.env.example
• app/root/Cargo.toml
• app/root/src/main.rs
• app/root/migrations/
• web/nginx/nginx.conf
• web/alerts/

Screenshots

License

MIT, by itinfra7 from GitHub.