Set up GPSphoto server on CentOS

• Install a bare web server
• Add the Epel repository

  yum install epel-release
  

• install spatiallite if you chose SQLite as the backend DB:

  yum install libspatialite
  

• Install postgresql server and postgis if Postgres is the backend DB, see the PostgresQL / Postgis section below

• In order for GPSphoto to work you also need the following packages:

  yum install mod_wsgi python-webob python-pillow python2-boto
  

• To make sure exif data is kept with the images install piexif (attached)

  yum install piexif-1.0.7-1.noarch.rpm
  

PostgresQL / PostGIS

Get the latest postgres / postgis by install the Yum repo from ​https://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php and install the following packages:

yum install postgresql95-server postgresql95 postgresql95-contrib postgis2_95 postgis2_95-utils postgis2_95-client python-psycopg2 python-psycopg2-doc ogr_fdw95

Edit /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/postgresql-9.5 to contain the following content:

PGPORT=5440

Initialize the database and start and enable it:

/usr/pgsql-9.5/bin/postgresql95-setup initdb
systemctl enable postgresql-9.5.service 
systemctl start postgresql-9.5

Create the DB schema:

sudo -i postgres
createdb mapserver

psql mapserver
> create user mapserver
> alter user mapserver with password <password>

psql -f /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/contrib/postgis-1.5/postgis.sql -d mapserver
psql -f /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/contrib/postgis-1.5/spatial_ref_sys.sql -d mapserver
psql -f /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/contrib/postgis_comments.sql -d mapserver

Useful tools

print detailed exif information of image:

identify -verbose P1100818.JPG