• Lychee ¹⁾
• Realm of Espionage
• https://media.realmofespionage.xyz

• 2025/01/17: WIP; fails at Composer

• Windows 10
• freenginx + PHP + PHP-CGI
• Certbot (Let's Encrypt)

• https://lycheeorg.dev/docs/#server-requirements

• https://www.git-scm.com/download/win
• Last tested: Git-2.47.1.2-64-bit.exe

• Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software

• https://nodejs.org/en/download
• Last tested: node-v22.13.0-x64.msi

• Node.js runtime, npm package manager, Add to PATH (corepack manager and Online documentation not required)
• Tools for Native Modules not required (leave “Automatically install the tools” unchecked)

• https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/commits/master/

"%ProgramFiles%\Git\bin\git.exe" clone --branch "master" --depth "1" --recurse-submodules "https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee.git" "%SystemDrive%\www\media"

explorer "%SystemDrive%\www\media"

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\php\media.ini"

[PHP]
; Modules
extension_dir = ".\ext"
extension = "exif"
extension = "fileinfo"
extension = "gd"
extension = "mbstring"
extension = "openssl"
extension = "sqlite3"
extension = "sodium"
zend_extension = "opcache"

; Settings
post_max_size = "100M"
upload_max_filesize = "100M"

[Date]
date.timezone = "America/New_York"

; End

CD "%SystemDrive%\" && "php.exe" -c "%SystemDrive%\www\php\media.ini" -m

• https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/blob/master/.env.example

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\media\.env"

APP_URL="https://media.realmofespionage.xyz"

• https://github.com/composer/composer/releases
• Latest composer.phar in www\ext folder
• 2025/01/17: This fails and is likely the cause for non-rendering later

MKDIR "%SystemDrive%\www\ext"

explorer "%SystemDrive%\www\ext"

CD "%SystemDrive%\www\media" && "php.exe" -c "%SystemDrive%\www\php\media.ini" "%SystemDrive%\www\ext\composer.phar" install --no-dev

CD "%SystemDrive%\www\media" && npm ci --verbose

CD "%SystemDrive%\www\media" && npm run "build" --verbose

• fastcgi_params include hard-coded to freenginx version path

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\nginx\default.d\media.conf"

# PHP-CGI
location ~ \.(php)(/.*)?$ {
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.(?:php))(/.*)$;
    fastcgi_intercept_errors "on";
    fastcgi_index "index.php";
    include "C:/freenginx-1.27.4/conf/fastcgi_params";
    fastcgi_param "SCRIPT_FILENAME" $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param "PATH_INFO" $fastcgi_path_info;
    fastcgi_param "HTTPS" "on";
    fastcgi_pass "127.0.0.1:9003";
}

# End

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\nginx\vhosts.d\media.conf"

server {
    listen "443" "ssl";
    http2 "on";
    server_name "media.realmofespionage.xyz";
    root "C:/www/media/public";
    index "index.php";

    include C:/www/nginx/default.d/media.conf;
    include C:/www/nginx/default.d/headers.conf;

    client_max_body_size "100M";

#    add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src "self"; script-src "self" "unsafe-inline" "unsafe-eval"; style-src "self" "unsafe-inline"" always;

#    access_log  logs/media-access.log;
#    error_log  logs/media-error.log;

    if (!-e $request_filename)
    {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;
        break;
    }

    location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
        return 403;
    }

    rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
}

# End

"%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\freenginx\Reload.bat"

MKDIR "%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media"

explorer "%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media"

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\PHP-CGI.bat"

SET "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=0"
SET "PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=1"

START "Media PHP-CGI" "php-cgi.exe" -b "127.0.0.1:9003" -c "%SystemDrive%\www\php\media.ini" -q

:: End

"%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\PHP-CGI.bat"

explorer "%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp"

"%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\PHP-CGI.bat"

Media PHP-CGI

• https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commits/master/
• https://github.com/Piwigo/piwigo-bootstrap-darkroom/commits/master/

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\Update.bat"

@echo off

:: Piwigo
"git.exe" -C "%SystemDrive%\www\media" reset --hard
"git.exe" -C "%SystemDrive%\www\media" pull origin "master" --rebase

:: Bootstrap Darkroom
"git.exe" -C "%SystemDrive%\www\media\themes\bootstrap_darkroom" reset --hard
"git.exe" -C "%SystemDrive%\www\media\themes\bootstrap_darkroom" pull origin "master" --rebase

pause

:: End

"%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\Update.bat"

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\Maintenance.bat"

@echo off

:: Piwigo
"git.exe" -C "%SystemDrive%\www\media" gc --aggressive --prune="all"
"git.exe" -C "%SystemDrive%\www\media" fsck --full --strict

:: Bootstrap Darkroom
"git.exe" -C "%SystemDrive%\www\media\themes\bootstrap_darkroom" gc --aggressive --prune="all"
"git.exe" -C "%SystemDrive%\www\media\themes\bootstrap_darkroom" fsck --full --strict

pause

:: End

"%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\Maintenance.bat"

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\Database Back-up.bat"

@echo off

:: User\Downloads
CD "%UserProfile%\Downloads"

:: NAS
::CD /D "D:\Servers\Scheduled Backups"

echo Root MariaDB user password prompt:
"%ProgramFiles%\MariaDB 11.6\bin\mariadb-dump.exe" -u "root" -p --opt -r "piwigo-database-%RANDOM%.sql" "piwigo"

pause

:: End

"%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\Database Back-up.bat"

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\Files Back-up.bat"

@echo off

CD "%SystemDrive%\www"

echo Backing up files...

:: User\Downloads
tar -czf "%UserProfile%\Downloads\piwigo-files-auto-%RANDOM%.tar.gz" "media"

:: NAS
::tar -czf "D:\Servers\Scheduled Backups\piwigo-files-auto-%RANDOM%.tar.gz" "media"

pause

:: End

"%SystemDrive%\www\scripts\media\Files Back-up.bat"

• https://media.realmofespionage.xyz

• Disable Allow user registration immediately under Configuration → Options → General → Permissions
• Activate Boostrap Darkroom theme

<p>Tech, hardware, food, nature, and gaming pictures and videos!</p>

• More Settings

notepad "%SystemDrive%\www\media\local\config\config.inc.php"

<?php

// nginx Rewrite
$conf['question_mark_in_urls'] = false;
$conf['php_extension_in_urls'] = false;

// Minimal Logging
$conf['log_level'] = 'EMERGENCY';

// Header Links
$conf['links'] = array(
  'https://realmofespionage.xyz' => 'Realm of Espionage',
  'https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz' => 'RoE | Wiki',
  'https://blog.realmofespionage.xyz' => 'RoE | Blog',
  'https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/user;espionage724' => 'Webmaster Info',
  'https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;windows;nginx;piwigo' => 'Instance Configuration Notes',
  );

// Video Uploading
$conf['upload_form_all_types'] = true;
$conf['file_ext'] = array_merge(
  $conf['picture_ext'],
  array('tiff', 'tif', 'mpg','zip','avi','mp3','ogg','pdf','webm','mp4')
  );

// End
?>